About Your Sign...
The Taurean's characteristics are solidity, practicality, extreme
determination and strength of will - no one will ever drive them,
but they will willingly and loyally follow a leader they trust.
They are stable, balanced, conservative good, law-abiding citizens
and lovers of peace, possessing all the best qualities of the
bourgeoisie. As they have a sense of material values and physical
possessions, respect for property and a horror of falling into
debt, they will do everything in their power to maintain the
security of the status quo and be somewhat hostile to change.
Mentally, they are keen-witted and practical more often than
intellectual, but apt to become fixed in their opinions through
their preference for following accepted and reliable patterns of
experience. Their character is generally dependable, steadfast,
prudent, just, firm and unshaken in the face of difficulties. Their
vices arise from their virtues, going to extremes on occasion,such
as sometimes being too slavish to the conventions they
admire.
On rare occasions a Taurean may be obstinately and exasperatingly
self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid, ultraconservative,
argumentative, querulous bores, stuck in a self-centered rut. They
may develop a brooding resentment through nursing a series of
injuries received and, whether their characters are positive or
negative, they need someone to stroke their egos with a frequent,
"Well Done!" Most Taureans are not this extreme though.
They are faithful and generous friends with a great capacity for
affection, but rarely make friends with anyone outside their social
rank, to which they are ordinarily excessively faithful. In the
main, they are gentle, even tempered, good natured, modest and slow
to anger, disliking quarreling and avoiding ill-feeling. If they
are provoked, however, they can explode into violent outbursts of
ferocious anger in which they seem to lose all self-control.
Equally unexpected are their occasional sallies into humor and
exhibitions of fun.
Although their physical appearance may belie it, they have a strong
aesthetic taste, enjoying art, for which they may have a talent,
beauty (recoiling from anything sordid or ugly) and music. They may
have a strong, sometimes unconventional, religious faith. Allied to
their taste for all things beautiful is a love for the good things
of life pleasure, comfort, luxury and good food and wine and they
may have to resist the temptation to over indulgence, leading to
drunkenness, gross sensuality, and covetousness.
In their work, Taureans are industrious and good craftspeople, and
are not afraid of getting their hands dirty. They are reliable,
practical, methodical and ambitious, within a framework of
obedience to superiors. They are at their best in routine positions
of trust and responsibility, where there is little need of urgency
and even less risk of change, and a pension at the end. Yet they
are creative and good founders of enterprises where the rewards of
their productiveness come from their own work and not that of
others. They can flourish in many different trades and professions:
banking, architecture, building, almost any form of bureaucracy,
auctioneering, farming, medicine, chemistry, industry Taureans make
good managers and foremen surveying, insurance, education and,
perhaps surprisingly, music and sculpture. They make an ideal
trustee or guardian, and can attain eminence as a chef. Some
Taureans are gifted enough in singing to become opera stars or to
excel in more popular types of music.
They are more than averagely amorous and sensually self-conscious,
but sexually straightforward and not given to experiment. They make
constant, faithful, home loving spouses and thoughtful, kindly
parents, demanding too much of neither their spouses nor children.
They can be over possessive and may sometimes play the game of
engineering family roles for the pleasure of making up the quarrel.
If anyone offends their amour proper they can be a determined
enemy, though magnanimous in forgiveness if their opponent makes an
effort to meet them halfway.
No other sign in the zodiac is closer to earth then Taurus. The
main objective in leading a Taurean life is primarily (though not
entirely) to maintain stability and physical concerns. Your inner
spiritual sense longs for earthly harmony and wholesomeness. When
you fully understand this, and work toward this end, you will no
longer need to blindly reassure yourself with external possessions
and comforts. A realization that finding this inner peace will
cause all of the above mentioned positive things will overtake you
and your life will be very full.
Ultimately the Taurean needs to discover their truest, deepest and
highest values. When they know what is truly valuable, they are no
longer chained to people and to things that have to do with lesser
values. The greatest indication of value to a Taurean is beauty,
which cannot be owned, only appreciated.
Possible Health Concerns...
Taurus governs the throat and neck and its subjects need to beware
throat infections, goiter and respiratory ailments such as asthma.
They are said to be at risk of diseases of the genitals, womb,
liver and kidneys, and of abscesses and rheumatism. Because their
body type has an inclination to physical laziness, Taureans can be
overweight.
