TAURUS: April 20 - May 20

Like its symbol, the bull, Taureans are steady, solid, and sometimes stubborn. These very grounded personalities rely heavily on common sense and are interested in the concrete over the abstract. Taurus represents the tilling of the soil of the material world in a repetitive or habitual effort to manifest the inner drives generated during the night force.  It works productively on the topmost layer of the substance of matter (like the earth, or the skin concerning the body) as an organic process.  

Adolescence grows to find its first love. Although their physical appearance may belie it, they have a strong aesthetic taste and enjoy art, for which they may have a talent, beauty (recoiling from anything sordid or ugly), and music. 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 overindulgence, leading to drunkenness, gross sensuality, 

and covetousness.

Patient and reliable 

Warmhearted and loving 

Persistent and determined 

Placid and security loving 

Jealous and possessive

Resentful and inflexible

Self-indulgent and stubborn

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. In their work, Taurus are industrious and good craftspeople and are not afraid of getting their hands dirty. They are reliable, practical, methodical, and ambitious.

They are at their best in routine positions of trust and responsibility, where there is little need for 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 are at their best in routine positions of trust and responsibility, where there is little need for 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. 

Taurus represents the tilling of the soil of the material world in a repetitive or habitual effort to manifest the inner drives generated during the night force working productively on the topmost layer of the substance. The characteristics of Taurus 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, the characteristics of Taurus 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. Taurus's character is generally dependable, steadfast, prudent, just, firm, and unshaken in the face of difficulties.

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. No other sign in the zodiac is closer to earth than Taurus. The main objective in leading a Taurean life is primarily (though not entirely) to maintain stability and physical concerns. Your inner 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.

On rare occasions, a Taurus 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 Taurus people are not this extreme though.

Earth is palpable. It is the stuff of physical form. People with a lot of earth in their charts make things. Plain and simple. Each earth sign represents a factor of production.

Taurus is the capital stock. That’s the machinery that enables us to “work smarter, not harder.” Taurus knows how to squeeze the most out of very little.  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. 

They can flourish in many different trades and professions: banking, architecture, building, almost any form of bureaucracy, auctioneering, farming, medicine, chemistry, and industry Taurus 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 Taurus are gifted enough in singing to become opera stars or to excel in more popular types of music.