Taurus has a deep rooted need for material and emotional stability, and both of these things are fundamental to their sense of well being. Those born under this sign instinctively withhold and conserve whatever belongs to them, and they don't take risks affecting their material security, as their possessions and home environment are extremely important to them and they tend to take a common sense, pragmatic and practical approach to life.Taureans’ have a need to possess, whether objects, money, or people, and security has to manifest itself in a tangible, unchanging form, so that it can be relied and depended upon. These people are security building and make good investors, bankers, and accountants. Taurus is the first of the Earth signs on the zodiac wheel and as a result they are deeply practical and realistic and their temperament is steady and placid.
Taureans prefer a quiet and steady life, and these folks persevere; their greatest strength resides in their tenacity, and steady relentless drive. Taurus is learning to relate to the earthy world, and build a sense of permanent worth into it, and their essential purpose is to maintain the stability of earthly things.
Naturally, they have a highly developed sense of harmony and wholesomeness, but Taurus also represents the need to put down roots and establish a home base. Being a practical no nonsense sign, patient, docile and accepting, they respect the value of money, and work long and hard to achieve their goals. Taurus is a fixed earth sign and that means that they are not fond of change on the material level of life and don't like to be rushed into anything new.
Taurus can be stubborn and overly practical and conservative, and don’t like anything which demands immediate action thrust into their face, they need a slow and relaxed pace with plenty of time to consider things carefully. Through their need for fixed security, these types are often stubborn and refuse to budge, and are entrenched in a familiar world of habit and routine to the point of being stuck in a rut.
Beneath their gentle exteriors they are known to have violent tempers and if if pushed too far can be provoked into physical anger. The unfamiliar makes them feel insecure, and they are happiest when involved in loving and committed partnerships. Taurus is in touch with their sensual side, and as a physical sign they have strong instinctive driven desires that seek satisfaction in very personal ways.
The sign is ruled by Venus and they a deep affinity for music, design, good food, and all the good things in life. Taurus also has a flair for design and colour and enjoys deep affinity with music, and will often possess a beautiful singing or speaking voice. Sometimes their appetite and appreciation for food can lead to weight problems. However, it is the ’sensual’ and not the ’sexual’ manner that pleases his senses, and they usually have a keen eye for what is valuable.
Touching, tasting, hearing, smelling and seeing helps Taurus appreciate life from it’s most basic physical level, they are born romantics and need to indulge in the tactile expression of love. Taurus has endless patience and an easy peace loving disposition, they are also extremely loyal and steadfast with a grounded nature. Taurus has the ability to create an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, and this is highly conductive for the formation of a stable and loving relationship.
One critical theme for Taurus is to cultivate self-value, and to establish a personal sense of self worth. It has to be something that does not come from external sources such as wealth or a prestigious title. Once such self worth is established it can't be taken away. The deepest motivation for Taurus is to be useful and productive, and to build something solid, permanent, and tangible in the world.
Further Interpretations:
You are known for being patient, slow moving and careful—you love to prolong and savor enjoyable times. You appreciate and need comfort, ease and warm surroundings. Be careful of a tendency to become placid and self-satisfied and to overeat (especially sweets). You require strenuous situations in order to grow and mature properly, even though you try to avoid them.
Affectionate, even-tempered and slow to anger—when you do become emotionally upset, you are also slow to forgive and time must pass before your calm returns. You demand real results from any situation—abstractions are very difficult for you to comprehend. Very artistic, your hands love to mold and shape things. You portray an earthy, physical sexiness that others find quite seductive. By Astrolabe
"You are a steadfast and patient soul, capable of tremendous devotion, dedication, endurance, and constancy. The ability to follow through and stick with things is one of your greatest assets. Once your course is set, you pursue it tenaciously until it is completed, stubbornly resisting any attempts to sway you from your purpose.
You have a very practical nature and want to see concrete, tangible results for your efforts, and you are not one for spinning wild dreams that are unlikely to come into fruition. Most of your “wild dreams” have to do with material achievements, well-being, and security, for you have a great love of the physical world and you want to experience and enjoy it to the full.
Though you will work long and persistently, you also have a strong sensual and comfort-loving side, and you want to enjoy what you have worked for. In fact, you can be enormously lazy at times and have a tendency to overindulge in good food and other earthly pleasures. You also love the beauty of the natural world and probably prefer a serene country setting rather than an urban life style.
At heart your needs are simple and you are easy to please. You have a strong desire for security, stability, and peace, and will rarely make changes unless you are forced to do so. You are not very demanding emotionally, though you do crave lots of physical closeness and affection. Because of your faithfulness, emotional steadiness, and gentle strength, others often depend upon you for support.
Though you hate upheaval and sudden changes, you usually maintain your poise and equanimity. You also have an innate sense of harmonizing with nature, allowing things to grow and unfold in their own time, and the patience to nurture something into being—be it a garden, a child, or some creative project. You make an excellent mother or father, especially if you follow your instincts more often than “the experts.”
You have three major faults: one is your bullheaded obstinacy. The second is your unwillingness to deviate from your safe, predictable routine. And the third is your tendency to always insist upon realism and undervalue the imaginative, speculative, and fanciful—in other words, you lack the ability to play with ideas and possibilities, to open your mind to the new. From “Merlin,” by Gina Ronco and Agnes Nightingale.
Ease, calm, naturalness—those are the spiritual goals of the Bull. Silence too. But not just the kind that comes from keeping your mouth closed. The Bull’s silence is deeper: it’s a quiet heart. Feel the wind in your hair. Feel the efficiency of your body, the rightness of its rhythms, the easy intelligence of your cells and muscles. That’s Taurus.
The part of you that’s learning the lessons of the Bull is getting more grounded, more present, more receptive to immediate reality. As a result, it has a physical orientation and a practical feeling. It’s not so interested in abstract flights of speculation. It avoids the metaphysical Disneylands that seem to fascinate so many people. It specializes in the wordless mysticism of ordinary life.
Feed your Taurean side with hands-on work: gardening, crafting wood or cloth, communing with animals. Soothe it with music. Restore and renew it with time spent close to nature—in the forest, in the mountain valley, by the ocean. Dress it in blue jeans and flannel. And never, ever, ask it to go to a cocktail party!
With your Sun in Taurus, you renew your basic vitality in simple ways. Take a walk in the woods. Paddle a canoe. Build something of oak or maple. Your deepest nature is quiet, stable, solid. You benefit from having a strong tone of continuity in your life—especially in relationships.
Keep in touch with old friends. Stay close to people who aren’t too quick to get off on “trips,” be they guru-scenes, make-a-million schemes, or a new kind of bean sprout that will change your life.
At the deepest level, you are learning about calm and naturalness. So keep things simple. Your practical skills are enormous: you understand the world of raw materials, of money, of daily life. Be careful those skills don’t run away with you!
A pitfall for you lies in getting so busy keeping all your responsibilities magnificently fulfilled that you starve yourself for quiet time. Then the Sun grows dimmer in you, and every other aspect of your character has less light to reflect. By “The Sky Within,” by Steven Forrest
"The singleness of purpose of the Taurean, his loyalty, his stick-to-it-iveness, spring from one source: his need for security. Self-preservation …is the hub of the Taurean wheel of life; and the Taurean curls and dies within himself when security—emotional or material—is denied him.
Not likely to be grasping, sure to be the embodiment of the idealist form of love, Taurus may himself, or herself, be quite unaware of inner motives, for self-analysis is rarely important to this sign.
Instincts are powerful and generally right—always right in so far as they serve the
perhaps unarticulated motives of the Taurean, who, while not selfish in the ordinary material sense, sees to it that nothing interferes with the gratifying of his instinctual urge, self-preservation and its more abstracted form, self-fulfillment.
The Taurean will not interfere with you if you don’t interfere with him in these essentials, but will fight like a bear at bay for his rights to these things. He is the easiest person to live with, if you are willing to live with him and not against him.
Anyone who is going to get along with a Taurean must understand that to him or her cooperation doesn’t mean doing things together; it means doing things peacefully, in a friendly manner, even if the things are done separately. This kind of cooperation annoys people who are less self-sufficient until they learn that the heart of the Taurean comes home to roost only if you don’t try to coerce it, and will break itself against bars of any kind, even if the bars are put up by love itself.
The Taurean is so sure of his need for security that he resents any implication that he needs watching or holding; his instinct is to hold himself to what he needs and wants—and he can’t by any force in the world be held to anything else. On the other hand, once he has polarized his instinct on an essential, he will cling to it with hands, teeth and toenails, and no one can tell him that it is unworthy, or wrong, or useless, or low.
Once it is his, in that it satisfies his deepest needs, it is his forever, whether it be home, a man, a woman, ambition, love, money or anything. When the Taurean has determined in his deep and sometimes dark subconscious that his emotional or material security lies there, he goes there and stays there forever." By Matrix Software
Taurus patiently builds things using an inner instinct. Taurus is attuned to the plant kingdom and a love of nature is usually strong in people who have a lot of Taurus in their charts. Taureans are practical and down-to-earth.
I have not found that love of food and comfort or materialism or acquisitiveness, which are often ascribed to Taurus, are accurate. From my viewpoint Taurus is the builder, plain and simple. Taurus approaches life instinctively, following its own inner sense, and persistently and patiently builds something.
Taurus does things in an organic way and does not respond to reason, preferring to follow an unfolding process that works from within. Taurus is attuned to the plant kingdom because Taurus develops organically and slowly, just as plants do.
People with strong Taurus in their chart like to build things up step-bystep, unfolding a plan that is within them and as the vision unfolds and materializes, Taurus takes great joy in the process. Others may feel bored, as if the Taurean is delighting in watching the grass grow, but patience and tenacity are implicit in the Taurean unfolding process. By Kepler Software
"With your Sun in Taurus your steadfast, easygoing energy helps to keep you focused on your priorities. You’re interested in a life which provides ample opportunities to grow, and your ego self is driven by a need to experience consistency. The beautiful things in life are most valuable to you, and your capacity for love is immense.
Learning the difference between stability and stubbornness can be one of your biggest lessons. Since your Sun shows “who you think you are,” you can grow to realize that loving thoughts produce amazing results. Through your Taurus Sun you experience a sense of continuity and stability, and can express your masculine side through establishing as secure place in the world.
Whether you choose a career path or family structure as your focus, you are like an anchor and have the ability to provide strength and consistency. It may be important that you to create a home base, and the energy you put into building your home includes both house and family.
Your special sensibility toward the environment can grow as you mature, and you may find that your awareness of the importance of preserving the environment and making the best use of resources is behind your most powerful drives. As a woman, you will take great care to build upon the foundations in your life, and may prefer to assert yourself in a slow, steady pace.
Your career path needs to provide opportunities for you to establish yourself and grow steadily. Regardless of your marital status, you function best when you have your own money and resources. Although your father may have been the breadwinner and financial mainstay when you were a child, you may prefer a different situation with a husband or partner.
Allowing the man in your life to control your finances will ultimately result in a power struggle, if not externally, then certainly within yourself. You can work cooperatively with a partner toward joint ventures, financially and otherwise, and can feel willing to share and contribute to the financial and other needs of your family. You will feel greater autonomy if you also have a separate fund which you control for yourself.
There’s certainly no problem with your desires, since your Taurus Sun qualities may help you create a long wish list. Maintaining your focus is one of the tricks you learned long ago, and when you really want something, there may be no end to your patience. The problem can revolve around determining your priorities and learning the difference between what you need and what you want.
Sometimes, your stubborn attitudes and refusal to change can interfere with the realization of your needs. In many ways, your success depends upon knowing when to hang on and when to loosen your grasp—at least a little! By Gloria Star, Matrix
