Taurus

Taurus: Key To Happiness

Pure Intuition: our ultimate goal.

Pure Intuition is the mind and desires purified of all personal motive. For a Taurus, that is a difficult task, for the energy ruling Taurus is felt as purely desirous.

Venus: our Ruling Planet

Like all planets, Venus has a dual luminous nature. The first part of its dual nature pulls us into physicality with pleasure as our motivating force. Since pleasure and enjoyment are created from a sense of longing, its fulfillment is tinged with the emotional pain and heartbreak of folly. All attachments and expectations eventually become disappointments, because everything ages, and goes out of style.

The second luminous quality is the result of the heartbreak and disappointment arising from using and manipulating imagination for our own ends, is the hope that it will cause a turning inward. Wisdom begins to transform our values and de-emphasize love involvements in search of a purer form of love. When our desire nature is under control, an intuitive awareness emerges.

Mercury: our Motivation

Mercury, as the next earth sign ruler also has a dual quality influencing our ultimate outcome as a human. The first aspect of its quality influences our Taurus love nature “to herd” others and to nudge them toward our goals, through communication and interaction, in order to fulfill our desires. Coming to terms with other peoples values, helps us to use our mind in a way that develops our intuition. Mercury’s true potential is as a clear or transparent channel — when personal intellect and physical desire are put aside in place of inspiration and clarity.

Saturn: our Good Fortune

Saturn, is the following earth-sign Capricorn’s ruler, that condenses and slows down all of our activities. Its influence causes responsibility and stability both physically and spiritually. Physically we become slaves to our creations, and spiritually, we dominate over the influences that make us slaves.

Saturn’s stabilizing influence expended merely physically can lead to conforming in ways to feel responsible, to fulfill our insatiable needs, to reach fulfillment of our desires. By collecting things, instead of just enjoying things, our must-have it all attitude gives us the illusion that there is some permanence to physical forms, while merely disguising it.

Spiritually, Saturn’s influence imbues us with a practical vision, a deep sense of responsibility toward family and loved ones. This allows us to satisfy some of our desires, but still deal with the accumulated heartbreak, in a way that is safe. Our disappointment is sublimated, but accepted.

Exalted Planets:

The Moon is exalted in Taurus:

When the Moon energy, (personal memory) is reprogrammed to only recall past thoughts that make you feel good, then desire (Venus) eventually become clear of its longing, turning upward to inspiration. Thereby, it causes intellect (Mercury) to be freed, to become a clear channel (instead of hanging onto images), in order to ground the state of cosmic consciousness (Saturn) whereby memory is exalted into Pure Intuition, and the Real You, becomes identified with all forms!