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Taurus
• The Bull
• April 21
to May 21
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Traditional Taurus
Traits:
Patient and reliable;
Warm-hearted and loving;
Persistent and determined;
Placid and security loving
Darker Side Traits:
Jealous and possessive;
Resentful and inflexible;
Self-indulgent and greedy
Taurus! 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.
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Possible
Health Concerns:
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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.
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Problems
that may arise for
Taurus:
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As with all sun signs, we
all have unique traits to
our personalities. When
these traits are suppressed,
or unrealized, problems
will arise. However, with
astrology we can examine
the problem and assess the
proper solution based on
the sun sign characteristics.
As a Taurean you may see
things below that really
strike home. Try the solution,
you most likely will be
amazed at the results. If
you find yourself on the
receiving end of the negatives
below, it is because you
are failing to express the
positive.
PROBLEM: Having
feelings of being used and
manipulated, led down the
garden path and made a sucker
of.
SOLUTION: Realize
that your magnetism attracts
negative as well as positive
influences. You need to
choose your friends, not
let them choose you.
PROBLEM: Physical
things start loosing their
appeal, and you feel more
and more out of touch with
the world around you. You
stop caring so much about
how much money you have
among other physical concerns.
SOLUTION: You
are starting to discover
an inner harmony that is
trying to replace the physical
with spiritual. You must
let this grow without killing
the part of you that provides
sustenance for your family.
PROBLEM: Unexplained
fear of loss, jealousy and
a paranoia that others are
out to get you.
SOLUTION: You
have within you the ability
to not only attract faithfulness,
but also the intellect to
see what is truly going
on around you. You are loosing
faith in both of these personal
traits. Rebuild that faith.
PROBLEM: Feeling
depressed with life. Disgusted
and dissatisfied. People
around you are little comfort.
You feel that life lacks
meaning. Easily addicted
to physical pleasures.
SOLUTION: Revisit
and realize the value of
spiritual things in life.
Take control of your life
by realizing it is not the
things in life that are
important, but the spirit
behind it all.
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Interesting
facts about Taurus:
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The animal associated with
you sign is this tough looking
bull. The Egyptian Hourus
was the bull of heaven,
and a white bull was sacrificed
in Babylonia at the New
Year to placate Ramman,
the god of thunder and lightning.
The color of choice for
Taurus is PINK
Your ruling planet
is VENUS
Your starstone is the Emerald.
Emeralds from Egypt are
known to date from about
330 B.C., and indirect evidence
suggests that Egyptians
were mining emerald as early
as 1300 B.C. The name emerald
comes from the greek smaragdos
meaning "green stone" and
probably referred, in fact,not
just to emeralds but to
all or many green gems.
Emerald boasts a great deal
of folklore. It was used
as a burnt offering, a symbol
of St. John, and supposedly
was a poison antidote, a
cure for fevers and epilepsy,
eye relief (due to the exceptional
color), a cure for dysentery
and leprosy, a cure for
ophthalmia and bleeding,
a cure for stomach problems
(when laid on the stomach),
and a good laxative.
April 21, 1816 - Charlotte
Bronte - Writer
April 21, 1838 - John Muir
- Naturalist
April 21, 1926 - Queen Elizabeth
II - British Royalty
April 22, 1724 - Immanuel
Kant - Philosopher
April 22, 1870 - Nicolai
Lenin - Marxist
April 22, 1904 - Robert
Oppenheimer - Physicist
April 22, 1908 - Eddie Albert
- Actor
April 22, 1916 - Yehudi
Menuhin - Musician
April 22, 1936 - Glen Campbell
- Entertainer
April 22, 1937 - Jack Nicholson
- Actor
April 23, 1452 - Leonardo
Davinci - Artist
April 23, 1519 - Catherine
de Medici - French Royalty
April 23, 1891 - Sergei
Prokofiev - Composer
April 23, 1928 - Shirley
Temple Black - Actress
April 23, 1939 - Lee Majors
- Actor
April 24, 1934 - Shirly
MacLaine - Actress
April 24, 1942 - Barbara
Steisand - Singer
April 25, 1874 - Guglielmo
Marconi - Scientist
April 25, 1908 - Eduard
R. Murrow - Broadcaster
April 26, 1933 - Carol Burnett
- Comedian
April 26, 1924 - Jack Schwartz
- Psychic Healer
April 26, 1894 - Rudolph
Hess - Nazi
April 27, 1822 - Ulysses
S. Grant - U.S. President
April 27, 1891 - Samual
Morse - Inventor
April 27, 1822 - Ulysses
S. Grant - U.S. President
April 27, 1922 - Jack Klugman
- Actor
April 27, 1927 - Coretta
King - Activitist
April 28, 1479 - Lucrezia
Borgia - Historical Figure
April 28, 1912 - Odette
Sanson - Secret Agent
April 29, 1901 - Hirohito
- Japanese Royalty
April 29, 1936 - Mehta Zubin
- Conductor
April 29, 1947 - Johnny
Miller - Golfer
April 29, 1955 - Kate Mulgrew
- Actress
April 29, 1970 - Uma Thurman
- Actress
April 30, 1893 - J. von
Ribbentrop - Nazi
May 01, 1769 - Duke of Wellington
- Militarist
May 01, 1881 - Pierre.T.
De Chardin - Priest Philosopher
May 01, 1918 - Jack Paar
- TV Host
May 01, 1945 - Rita Coolidge
- Singer
May 02, 1729 - Catherine
the Great - Russian Royality
May 02, 1903 - Dr. Benj.
Spock - Child Specialist
May 02, 1903 - Bing Crosby
- Singer
May 02, 1925 - Roscoe Lee
Browne - Actor
May 03, 1902 - Walter Slezak
- Actor
May 03, 1919 - Pete Seeger
- Singer
May 03, 1921 - Sugar Ray
Robinson - Sports Figure
May 04, 1915 - Moshe Dayan
- Politician
May 05, 1599 - Oliver Cromwell
- Politician
May 05, 1818 - Karl Marx
- Revolutionary
May 05, 1943 - Bob Woodward
- Reporter
May 05, 1958 - Annette Benning
- Actress
May 06, 1758 - Maximil.
Robespierre - Revolutionary
May 06, 1856 - Sigmund Freud
- Psychologist
May 06, 1895 - Rudolph Valentino
- Actor
May 06, 1913 - Stewart Granger
- Actor
May 06, 1915 - Orson Wells
- Producer
May 06, 1931 - Willie Mays
- Sports Figure
May 06, 1937 - Rubin Carter
- Homicide
May 07, 1861 - Randindranath
Tagore - Poet
May 07, 1833 - Johnnes Brahms
- Composer
May 07, 1901 - Gary Cooper
- Actor
May 07, 1908 - Eva Perone
- Dictator
May 08, 1929 - Jane Roberts
- Channel
May 08, 1884 - Harry S.
Truman - U.S. President
May 09, 1800 - John Brown
- Radical
May 09, 1907 - Kathryn Kulman
- Evangalist
May 09, 1918 - Mike Wallace
- TV Personality
May 09, 1928 - Poncho Gonzales
- Sports Figure
May 09, 1942 - David R.
Gurgen - TV Personality
May 09, 1944 - Daniel Barrigan
- Radical
May 09, 1946 - Candice Bergen
- Actress
May 10, 1899 - Fred Astaire
- Dancer
May 10, 1902 - David O.
Selznick - Producer
May 10, 1900 - Karl Kraft
- German Astrologer
May 10, 1939 - Jean Huston
- Psychologist
May 10, 1940 - Wayne Dyer
- Psychologist
May 11, 1469 - N. Machiavelli
- Potitician
May 11, 1888 - Irving Berlin
- Composer
May 11, 1894 - Martha Graham
- Dancer
May 11, 1927 - Mort Sahl
- Comedian
May 12, 1895 - Jeddu Krishnamurti
- Religious Leader
May 12, 1820 - Florence
Nightingale - Humanitarian
May 12, 1907 - Katherine
Hepburn - Actress
May 12, 1937 - George Carlin
- Comedian
May 13, 1914 - Joe Lewis
- Sports Figure
May 13, 1923 - Richard Avedon
- Photographer
May 13, 1931 - Jim Jones
- Cultist
May 13, 1939 - Harvey Keitel
- Actor
May 13, 1941 - Ritchie Valens
- Singer
May 13, 1950 - Stevie Wonder
- Singer
May 14, 1925 - Patrice Munsel
- Singer
May 14, 1936 - Bobby Darin
- Singer
May 14, 1944 - George Lucas
- Film maker
May 14, 1952 - David Byrne
- Singer
May 15, 1859 - Pierre Curry
- Scientist
May 15, 1902 - Richard Daily
- Politician
May 15, 1918 - Joseph Wiseman
- Activist
May 15, 1937 - Madeleine
Albright - Ambassador
May 16, 1905 - Henry Fonda
- Actor
May 16, 1908 - Muktananda
- Guru
May 16, 1925 - Liberace
- Entertainer
May 17, 1866 - Eric Satie
- Composer
May 17, 1895 - Gayelord
Hauser - Nutritionist
May 19, 1896 - Ida Rolf
- Body Worker
May 19, 1964 - Collin Chapman
May 20, 1799 - Honore Balzac
- Writer
May 20, 1908 - James Stewart
- Actor
May 20, 1946 - Cher - Singer/Actress
May 21, 1904 - Robert Montgomery
- Actor
May 21, 1911 - Peter Hurkos
- Psychic
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