The Bull
April 21 to May 21
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Element: Earth |
Glyph: Bull’s head |
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Quality: Fixed |
Anatomy: Throat, neck |
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Polarity: Yin/feminine |
Color: Green |
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Planetary Ruler: Venus |
Animal: Cattle |
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Meditation: I trust myself and others |
Myths/Legends: Isis and Osiris, Ceridwen, Bull of Minos |
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Gemstone: Emerald |
House: Second |
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Power Stones: Diamond, blue lace agate, rose quartz |
Opposite Sign: Scorpio |
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Flower: Violet |
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Key Phrase: I have |
Keyword: Conservation |
The Taurus Personality
Strengths, Spiritual Purpose, and Challenges
You are like the little sprout in spring that’s just poked its head through the soil, searching for the sunshine, depending on its roots to nurture it, pushing through all obstacles to survive and to thrive. The urge to grow is strong, the determination and the will are without compare, the resourcefulness is deeply imbedded. All this is intrinsic to Taurus. The challenge is that the need to survive can overshadow the knowledge that, if anyone knows what to do to make things work, it’s you. No one has quite the resources that you do to make something of life, nor do they have the perseverance. Once committed to a course of action, you do not rest until you have done what you set out to do. This makes you reliable and steadfast, practical and dependable.
However, in your quest to fulfill your spiritual purpose—determining value—you can and do get stuck. It’s just part of the process, because how can you know if something is valuable if you don’t hold on to it? So you commit yourself to what you’ve built, to what you’ve bought, to what you’ve created, to what you’ve accumulated. None of that is the source of your value. They are symbols of what you are capable of but not the source of who you are. Making that distinction is a big challenge for you, because you do find great security in external things. After all, like the sprout, if you don’t conquer the outer world, you will die. Yet, if you look at the little sprout, you realize that it too will let go of whatever will keep it from thriving. Be open to this so you can nourish your life more effectively. Let go of your need for predictability. Keep only those things that truly nurture you. Take time to acknowledge all that you have accomplished. Know that the security you seek is within, and it’s not built on anything in your outer world. It’s built on a drive and determination that cannot be extinguished by anyone but you.
Relationships
Because Venus, the planet of love and desire, is the biggest influence in your life, you like people and you enjoy being around them. When it comes to love, you are steadfast and loyal, capable of commitment through thick and thin. Any promises you make to others you will keep, even if it means sacrificing yourself, because a promise is a promise is a promise. You require honesty and respect from anyone you invite into your world, and you offer the same in turn. Once you trust someone, it’s hard for you to accept any form of betrayal or any awareness that tarnishes your commitment to them. You will hang on to partners, lovers, children, friends, or family long past the point it makes sense for you to do so. Not only do you have difficulty letting go, you also tend to exert ownership over those you love. This causes significant problems because love and ownership do not mix well. In truth, their energies are diametrically opposite, and it may take some time before you truly understand that. However, because you are always in it for the long haul, this can be worked out, provided you are willing to listen to the other person.
Career and Work
It’s not in your nature to choose to do something that has no long-term value, that doesn’t have tangible results. You definitely like to see the fruits of your labors, whether you work in finance, graphic arts, construction, medicine, running your own business, etc. What’s more, what you choose to do must be seen as valuable, not just by you but by those close to you. You really aren’t concerned with making a big, public splash as much as you wish to be acknowledged and respected by those in your immediate world. Hard work and being in it for the long haul definitely come naturally to you, and you are never happier than when you get to build something from the ground up, making sure it stands the test of time. A shoddy work ethic or a lack of commitment to excellence don’t make any sense to you because you see everything you do as an extension of who you are.
Money and Possessions
Let’s face it: you like stuff. It gives you a deep sense of security because it’s a reminder of what you have accomplished and how hard you have worked. Your challenge is to remember that things don’t guarantee security. However, that doesn’t mean they are less valuable to you. In fact, that’s not really why they are valuable at all. You need your environment to be pleasing because it really is like looking at the inner parts of yourself, which is, on a deeper level, why you become so attached to things. Everything you surround yourself with is hugely symbolic as well as highly stimulating because you are so visual and so tactile. It is so much more than ownership or comfort that motivates you. The same cannot be said for how you feel about money. This is where your need for security and your capacity to attach without question can get out of hand so that your image of yourself gets completely immersed in how much money you have or don’t have. Easy enough to do in a world where money is often the sole arbiter of success. Remember, it’s a resource, not the final judgment.
The Light Side of Life
You are a sensual person who delights in all things connected to the five senses. So when it’s time to relax, your attention naturally goes to things that feel good, look good, smell good, etc.—in short, anything that makes the world around you more comfortable and enjoyable. You don’t like anything discordant to find its way into your reality, whether it’s music you don’t like, people who are disrespectful, anyone who makes it their mission to change your mind, etc. You do enjoy letting your hair down once in a while, provided you are in good company, which equates to people you know and trust.
Taurus Keywords for 2019
Flexibility, courage, resourcefulness
The Year Ahead for Taurus
It’s going to be a difficult year for you to predict anything with any certainty because the planets demanding your attention—Uranus, Saturn, Pluto, and Neptune—are a mixed bag of opportunity, stability, compulsiveness, and chaos. This is quite the combination and quite the dilemma for someone who not only likes steadiness and constancy above all else but gets entirely lost and knocked off balance by the slightest suggestion that what you have so diligently planned and executed just isn’t going to work out the way you expected. You are a creature of expectations as well as desires, needs, and requirements. You simply cannot see how life can function without them. There has to be some meaningful starting point, something you can rely on to guide you through life. Well, get ready to redefine all the known quantities in your life as Uranus charges into your Sun sign on March 6 and life feels a little more electric than you might like. This triggers a desire to dig in (especially if you were born in the first part of Taurus) and find something solid to see you through the turmoil. (Those born in the latter part of Taurus will just have to wait their turn to get the full effect.)
The key here is to recognize that change (aka Uranus) is not going to stop knocking on your door, even if you barricade it with all your favorite ideas, beliefs, possessions, money, or anything else that you think is what keeps you safe. There really is no escape. The more you resist, the more likely it is that you will make things worse. This year signals an opportunity to step into the authenticity of who you are, which may require stripping away anything you’ve accumulated that no longer serves any purpose while actually creating an energetic drag on your life. Now, with Saturn in Capricorn encouraging you to believe that anything you have or have done should not be relinquished without a fight, Neptune asking you to look beyond the end of your own nose, and Pluto nudging you from the depths to find some real passion in your life and express it, you definitely feel you are in the middle of a war you didn’t start. While that is true, that doesn’t alter the fact that what keeps all things healthy is the capacity to grow. That’s what you need to do.
Recognize that complacency—everything is fine just the way it is—is the forerunner of disconnecting from the vibrancy of life, with all its twists and turns. You are here to continually evaluate what matters to you through the medium of your life experience, not hang on to the last best thing you did, hold your breath, or resist anything and everything that doesn’t match your carefully crafted picture of life. The security you think the outer world provides is transitory at best. Besides, you created it anyway by applying yourself with determination and hard work. You are truly the source of your own security. That is what the next seven years will demonstrate to you—if you are open to it. Otherwise, life promises to be extremely difficult until you realize you are being your own worst enemy.
Saturn
As 2019 opens up, life feels solid and grounded, and you can thank Saturn in Capricorn for that. He is, after all, the stabilizer, and he has brought some much-needed order (in your mind, anyway) to all the topsy-turvy energy that has been lurking in the back of your consciousness for longer than you care to remember (actually it’s seven years). In fact, you may feel he has managed to keep anything that disturbs your equilibrium at bay permanently. Not so fast. He is a lot of things but Saturn is not a miracle worker, and he certainly doesn’t have the capacity to stop the inevitable advance of change. Oh, he can definitely lull you into a false sense of security and convince you that nothing can upset your world. However, if experience has taught you anything, you know that isn’t true. And, if you cling to that unrealistic hope, you are creating a perfect storm of upheaval, turbulence, and disorder in your own life. Accept that change is inevitable and use the growing sense of confidence that Saturn nurtured in you in 2018 and you can meet the demand for change and growth as it pushes open the door, crosses the threshold, and plants itself firmly in your life for the next seven years. Saturn’s job now is to assist you in finding constructive ways to deal with the lack of certainty that comes with a major turning point in your life. Make no mistake: that is what is on the agenda. Turn to the knowledge that you can create security from within with little or nothing to go on except complete faith in yourself.
Uranus
If you think Saturn is your very best friend this year, you definitely feel Uranus is your enemy. In fact, you might be tempted to call him the Bogeyman because he symbolizes everything that makes you break out in a cold sweat. And that can be summed up in a single word: change—the one thing you resist with every fiber of your being. If you could immortalize everything in the moment you found it satisfying, you would. So it annoys you that nothing is set in stone, shaking you to the very core. Well, be prepared. The next seven years of your life will test everything you hold dear and then some. Now, before you assume this is some special torture cooked up just for you, remember change is inevitable for everyone. Yes, repeat that to yourself at least ten times. When you are done, take a look at your life and ask yourself what is truly necessary for you to be you. With any luck, you’ll realize the only thing you really require is yourself, that everything you have you created, which means you have a profound capacity to take any set of resources and make something out of it. So stop nailing everything to the floor, get rid of the tunnel vision, and look around you. Life is full of opportunity, not disaster. With one proviso: you don’t always have control over how opportunity shows up. That’s Uranus. Inherent in every experience he triggers is the chance to grow beyond what you already know and create something new. It just requires that some things get blown to smithereens.
Neptune
With Uranus rattling around in your Sun sign, Neptune feels pretty innocuous and nonthreatening. In fact, you may choose to go and hide out in his world, where illusion is the escape hatch we use to convince ourselves that nothing is wrong. The first order of business for you is to get past the notion that, if your life is in turmoil, it must be the result of some mistake you made. No, if nature teaches us anything, it’s that nothing is permanent. So before you go into convulsions at the mere thought, recognize that this truth is actually a liberation instead of a punishment. Then you can tap into the peace that Neptune offers, because he is the doorway to what lies beyond our fear of impermanence to the deeply felt yet unquantifiable sense of connection to the Divine. On a more practical note, Neptune can help you with that Uranian problem you feel is plaguing you by softening your need to hold things so rigidly in place, by helping you to look beyond the obvious, and by creating the space to let things go. Granted, this is a tall order of business, but you have a large chunk of time to work on it. Some strategies that might be helpful include taking time to sit in nature and observe the changing of the seasons. See how nature builds upon change. Take up yoga, start a dream journal, make friends with those whose point of view is very different from your own, or just dance.
Pluto
You might not have noticed Pluto as much in the last year because Saturn dominated the conversation in your world, at least on a conscious level. However, Pluto is much more at home in your subconscious, where he’s definitely been making an impact for the past ten years, often in subtle ways that don’t seem obvious until you discover, much to your surprise, that some integral part of how you view the world or what you stand for has shifted profoundly. With Saturn as Pluto’s partner for the last year, there has been a push to use those shifts in some very practical and measurable ways, leading to some uncomfortable moments—for you, anyway—as you felt compelled to forcefully assert your point of view and challenge others to come clean and be accountable. This continues in 2019 with one noticeable difference: you are no longer embarrassed by yourself. Gone are the days when you were prepared to quietly go your own way, believing that your actions sufficed in signaling to the world what you valued. Not only do you need to speak up, but you are compelled to do so from somewhere deep inside you that you don’t quite understand. Don’t worry about it. Just go with it. What you find out about yourself in the world is a life-altering surprise.
How Will This Year’s Eclipses Affect You?
Eclipses signal intense periods that highlight major growth opportunities for us in the process of creating our lives. They are linked to the lunar phases—specifically the New and Full Moon—and involve the relationship between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth. A Solar Eclipse is a magnified New Moon, while a Lunar Eclipse is a magnified Full Moon. Eclipses unfold in cycles involving all twelve signs of the zodiac, and they occur in pairs, usually about two weeks apart.
In 2019 there are five eclipses, three solar (two in Capricorn and one in Cancer) and two lunar (one in Leo and one in Capricorn). The first Solar Eclipse arrives on January 5 and immediately puts you on notice that sticking to old thought patterns and rigid attitudes leads to a sense of isolation that will only be amplified by the Lunar Eclipse in Leo on January 21. It truly is time to abandon any inclination that life must be taken care of properly, aka I must always do the right thing for the right reasons while following all the correct procedures. This is not what will bring you satisfaction. It never has, on a deeper level. Doing your duty doesn’t recharge your batteries if you are simply following protocol rather than giving of yourself on a heart level.
There is a theme this year that asks you to consider what emotionally satisfies you, what your true responsibilities are (both to yourself and to others), and what the real definition of service is. Is it subservience or is it the true gifting of yourself, whether to people or to situations? At the heart of these eclipses (including the Solar Eclipse on July 2, the Lunar Eclipse on July 16, and the Solar Eclipse on December 26) is a call to redefine your priorities, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually and physically, to take stock of what fulfills you and expands your commitment to living life to the fullest, and to define what that really means. You can get so stuck in patterns and forget to get rid of the deadwood in your life because you think that if something was valuable to you once, it must still be valuable. However, life changes you and therefore changes the landscape. This year, the landscape that changes centers on using how you feel as a benchmark for what you are prepared to do in all areas of life. No more blindly following the path you once set. Instead, you seek to make yourself the heart of your life going forward. Step into this with grace and you will find that, whether you believe it or not, you need variety and excitement to flourish. No more need to continually prove yourself in any way, shape, or form. The prospect of building anew is far more satisfying than maintaining the status quo.
Taurus | January
Overall Theme
You feel restless and you aren’t really sure why. All you really know is something isn’t sitting right in your consciousness, leading to an inability to focus, an inability to get much done, and an inability to feel at home in your own skin. Definitely not a comfortable month. However, resistance is futile, because the only effect it will have is to amplify what already is a challenge.
Relationships
Exhausted from trying to keep everybody happy in the last thirty days, you strike out on your own for some much needed freedom from the concerns of others. It’s almost as if someone shut off your capacity to hear anything from anyone. Oh, you can see people’s mouths moving, but somehow the words are not penetrating that self-protective bubble you set up around yourself.
Career, Success, and Money
Much to your surprise, the only items on your agenda are less work, less worry, and less effort. You find yourself relying on past performance to carry you through a time when you apparently don’t care. That’s not really true. You are just preparing to recalibrate what you value in life by taking a step back from everything.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The Solar Eclipse on January 5 could trigger a huge guilt complex. Are you doing enough, being enough, caring enough? Avoid diving into this particular black hole, not only because it’s exhausting and debilitating but also because it interferes with that gut feeling you have that you need to make some emotional changes in your life.
Rewarding Days
14, 15, 23, 24
Challenging Days
5, 6, 25, 26
Taurus | February
Overall Theme
Your energy stabilizes, making you happier and less overwhelmed. You don’t fare well if everything keeps moving and changing before you can get a handle on what’s happening. Well, this is the calm before the storm, so enjoy the sense of direction and determination that floods your being. You’ll need it in March.
Relationships
You return to a more practical and stable approach to relationships, meaning you are once again your reliable, steadfast self. You pride yourself on being someone others can count on, and you have many opportunities this month to demonstrate that. A word of caution: you can support people, but rescuing them never works.
Career, Success, and Money
A lot of focus on what you are doing and why dominates your thinking for much of February. You find yourself asking a lot of questions about what you desire, not just about the practical aspects of your career but also about whether you are truly satisfied. Some new people crossing your path trigger a profound realization that you are searching for a completely new direction.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
The deep sense of foreboding you feel in the pit of your stomach is a sign that you know the unexpected is just around the corner. And it is. But instead of allowing that feeling to consume you, recognize that you have the skills to deal with whatever happens. After all, this isn’t the first time change has come knocking on your door.
Rewarding Days
11, 12, 23, 24
Challenging Days
8, 9, 21, 22
Taurus | March
Overall Theme
A major turning point looms on the horizon as Uranus crosses the threshold into your Sun sign for a seven-year stay. Granted you had a taste of this erratic energy in 2018, but that was just a whisper of things to come. Now it’s time for the main event, and you are caught between the need to cast everything in concrete and the awareness that maybe your world needs a little shaking up.
Relationships
Well, the restlessness of January reappears and you suddenly find yourself being more than a little bit disagreeable. Not content with taking a break from others, you are in outright rebellion against anyone who tries to push you in one direction or another. It’s not that you aren’t listening, it’s that you just don’t see much value in what is being said.
Career, Success, and Money
Work presents a number of challenges, beginning with what you consider a lack of respect for your efforts and ending with outside people weighing in on things you think are none of their business. While you may be right, being combative won’t solve either of those issues. Pat yourself on the back and back away from the interference.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Your equilibrium takes a big hit when Uranus moves into Taurus, leaving your sense of self bouncing around like a ping-pong ball and your belief that you can handle anything almost shattered. This uncertainty makes you hypersensitive about and hyper-vigilant to all incoming data. Use the Mercury retrograde period (March 5 to 28) to do some real soul-searching.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 19, 20
Challenging Days
8, 9, 23, 24
Taurus | April
Overall Theme
Your stress level remains high as you question anything and everything. What’s more, there don’t seem to be any clear answers. You could cope quite nicely with this change, if only you knew what it was. Relax. Well, at least breathe. You can’t solve anything holding your breath. All will be revealed in good time.
Relationships
Talking to people seems to be a waste of your time, so your dissatisfaction with others continues. Why? Because you don’t feel anyone is listening to you. The truth is, those around you are a little freaked-out at you being freaked-out, so when you start sharing your inner turmoil, they just don’t know what to do. Let them know you don’t need them to do anything but be present.
Career, Success, and Money
With everything in a state of flux, you turn to the one thing that usually guarantees some stability: your work. But somehow, even that doesn’t make you feel any better. In fact, it’s downright stultifying. When, you wonder, did everything become so flat and uninteresting? Be careful. You may start spending money to inject a sense of security into your world.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
You really aren’t sure where to go or what to do. The push from Saturn tells you to get moving, get going, get something done. After all, you can’t drop the ball now. Meanwhile, Uranus dares you to break down everything that’s defined your life up to this point and begin anew. What’s a self-respecting Taurus supposed to do? Examine your life and keep only what you truly value. This is a difficult process for you, but it has to be done.
Rewarding Days
6, 7, 15, 16
Challenging Days
4, 5, 18, 19, 20
Taurus | May
Overall Theme
The world doesn’t feel quite as wobbly as it has recently, plus you don’t feel as flat as a pancake. All this reenergizes you and allows you to stop spending so much time grabbing for anything that you can use as a flotation device to weather the hurricane you believe has enveloped your life. Instead, you turn your attention to rebuilding your sense of confidence in yourself.
Relationships
Life with others becomes less hazardous as your mood softens and you realize that it’s far too easy to project onto others the dissatisfaction you essentially have with yourself. The root of this is your expectation that, if you are doing it right, nothing (whether external or internal) should ever rock the foundation of what you have built. Can you say unrealistic?
Career, Success, and Money
You make tremendous strides in finding a solution to the ennui you have accumulated in the last two months. The key is revisiting ideas, projects, and plans you had in the works before life seemed to turn upside down. You discover, quite happily, that they still galvanize you as much as they ever did. Soon, everything is percolating and you are rewarded with a deep sense of satisfaction.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Things motor along quite nicely and you encounter few bumps in the road. The opportunity here is to acknowledge all the fears stirred up by the constant inner push for change emerging from inside you. This is not a passing phase, so taking stock gives you the chance to get on board with the need for change.
Rewarding Days
4, 5, 13, 14
Challenging Days
15, 16, 17, 18
Taurus | June
Overall Theme
Having regained your equilibrium, you set aside your apprehension in favor of moving forward with a renewed sense that life still has much to offer you. As much as you are reluctant to acknowledge it, you are beginning to see that your life has become far too predictable, even for you. Now begins the process of climbing out of the rut you didn’t realize you dug.
Relationships
You are the soul of discretion as you find yourself being everyone’s confessor/counselor/chief support system. What you find out about yourself gives you a deeper sense of how much you truly have to offer others in the way of wisdom, compassion, and true understanding. This restores your faith in both yourself and others.
Career, Success, and Money
This month signals a time to reward yourself, whether that means going after a promotion or raise, taking a risk on an investment you’ve been pondering for some time, or buying yourself something special. And those are just three of a myriad of possibilities. Ask yourself what you deserve for being who you are and doing what you do. No matter the answer, do it.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Although you are more at peace with the reality that change is necessary, you need to be careful you don’t convince yourself that you are 100 percent ready for what is bound to come next. None of us can ever be that prepared, no matter what we do. Accept that and you are free to tap into the huge reservoir of resources you consistently use to solve life’s ups and downs.
Rewarding Days
9, 10, 23, 24
Challenging Days
5, 6, 18, 19
Taurus | July
Overall Theme
You are so sensitive that you want to crawl under a rock and wait for it to pass. It’s not that you are unhappy. The truth is your circuits are on overload and you really do need to schedule a timeout because you feel it all intensely and unrelentingly. This is not your comfort zone, which only makes it more challenging.
Relationships
You can’t walk into any room without tuning in to the prevailing emotional winds. This leaves you feeling like you need to defend yourself before you’ve even said hello. The solution is to consciously acknowledge where you are at before you walk through that door. That way you know what’s yours and what’s not. Remember, you are not responsible for how others feel or react.
Career, Success, and Money
Try not to say yes to everything that is asked of you. It only leads to resentment, as there is at least one person prepared to dump work on you that they not only are quite capable of doing but are responsible for. On the bright side, you are in line for some much-needed acknowledgment from a higher-up, which signals an important positive development in your career.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Both the Solar Eclipse ( July 2) and the Lunar Eclipse ( July 16) combined with a retrograde Mercury ( July 7 to July 31) create a highly defensive attitude that promises to overwhelm you. Normally you are not prickly or easily offended. This month is the exception. Find ways to nurture yourself and count to ten before speaking.
Rewarding Days
6, 7, 25, 26
Challenging Days
1, 2, 23, 24
Taurus | August
Overall Theme
The desire to have fun takes precedence over everything else. Now, that doesn’t equate to forgetting your responsibilities; it just means your number-one priority is making sure that what you do brings a smile to your face. You are truly in love with life and want to pack every moment full of as much pleasure as you can muster. Which happens to be a lot.
Relationships
Well, there isn’t anyone you don’t like this month, unless, of course, they are a bit of a sourpuss. You are definitely not open to complaints or harangues or grumbles of the inconsequential kind. For those who truly need support or a shoulder to cry on, you are all heart and compassion, so much so that you find yourself galvanized to give your time or money to something you deem worthwhile.
Career, Success, and Money
Expect some surprising developments in this area, especially around August 15. There could be a sudden shift in the hierarchy at work that leads to a potential promotion or an unexpected realization that the time has come to move on. This leads to stress and a loosening of the purse strings. Steer clear of buying for the sake of buying.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Be careful about throwing caution to the wind, which is an overwhelming temptation after all the months you’ve been coping with your life rocking and rolling. Enjoy the release of all those tensions; just avoid doing anything you will regret later. Relax. Have fun. Just don’t jump off a cliff without a parachute.
Rewarding Days
1, 2, 22, 30, 31
Challenging Days
12, 13, 24, 25
Taurus | September
Overall Theme
You finally feel like you have a handle on all that pushy Uranian energy that’s been forcing you to move forward whether it’s what you want or not. Take advantage of your renewed confidence to truly engage with that energy. It’s time to stop resisting, or you will crash and burn, if not this month, then soon. Take an inventory of your life and you will discover that there is much you would be happy to change.
Relationships
Remember to take time to connect with your partner, your family, and your friends. It’s imperative because a number of important milestones occur this month and you may be missing in action, largely because work is taking up all the oxygen. First step: put it in your calendar. Second step: look at your calendar. Otherwise, you might end up disappointing someone very close to you.
Career, Success, and Money
A number of critical deadlines all converge, leaving you reeling from the amount of pressure it creates. Somehow you did this to yourself, and your head feels like it is going to explode. Forget that you overloaded your own plate, and ask for help. It won’t hurt, and it will give you space to be a human being, not a human doing.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
One of the things you did to cope with your fear of change was to overcommit yourself and take on too many things. You believed that if you kept busy, you could ride out the call for change and keep everything the way it was. This month you discover that was wishful thinking.
Rewarding Days
3, 4, 18, 19
Challenging Days
10, 11, 28, 29
Taurus | October
Overall Theme
Surprising revelations catch you unawares and shake your security to the core, making you wonder whether everything you believe has any actual value. Again you are confronted with the main message of Uranus in your Sun sign: take stock of what is important to you and be prepared to get rid of anything dragging you down.
Relationships
It feels like everyone in the world who has a problem has your phone number. And what they need help with seems so, well, small. All this leaves you wanting to scream, if only silently. You don’t mind helping people or supporting them, but you aren’t interested in rescuing or babysitting. The solution? Listen and be supportive, but don’t fix anything. It’s not your job, even if it’s someone you love. Instead, tell them you trust they can find a solution (but only if you mean it).
Career, Success, and Money
You are mentally focused in a way that has eluded you since the beginning of 2019, and you are anxious to make use of it. New pathways worth exploring open up, as well as new opportunities for investment. Don’t dismiss anyone who comes to you with a crazy idea with an awesome financial upside. It has great potential.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Your vaunted patience disappears in the onslaught of other people’s concerns, problems, and crises, because no one seems to realize that not only do you have your own worries, but you are feeling really creative and you just want to run with it. So go all in on what you desire. That’s much better than being cranky, rude, and resentful.
Rewarding Days
10, 11, 24, 25
Challenging Days
12, 13, 20, 21
Taurus | November
Overall Theme
You feel at war with everyone. Why can’t you just get on with what is calling to you from within? After all, you’ve got important stuff to do, and yet the whole world seems to think you are on vacation. Why else would they assume you have nothing to do but take care of stuff that you, quite frankly, don’t care about? The process of redefining your values has begun.
Relationships
Those closest to you are a little nonplussed at what they perceive to be your sudden desire for emancipation from everything and everyone in your life. You keep trying to assure them that is not the case. However, you aren’t quite sure how to explain what is going on inside you because you haven’t quite figured it out yourself. Instead of camouflaging your uncertainty, tell them. It will help.
Career, Success, and Money
There’s a powerful focus this month on shared resources of all kinds, from money to time to ideas, and you find yourself conflicted about how much you are supposed to share and with whom, for how long, and for what purpose. The result is you won’t commit without a clear idea of just what is being asked of you. Stick to your guns and don’t let anyone guilt you. Your questions are perfectly reasonable.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Avoid being strident and abrasive. If you truly want people to hear you, try saying what you want to say out loud to yourself first. That way you get a sense of just how irritated and annoyed you are feeling, the result of Uranus poking away at you. Then you can get people’s attention in a positive, more satisfying way.
Rewarding Days
20, 21, 29, 30
Challenging Days
11, 12, 16, 17
Taurus | December
Overall Theme
A sense of calm dominates much of the month, and not because life is calmer or easier or more stable. You are, and it comes from a sudden realization that you have a lot of tools in your tool kit that you can call on to see you through whatever life offers up. It’s your desire to hold on that creates most of the problems.
Relationships
Gone is the need to separate yourself from everyone, and you are deeply relieved to return to a more reliable, steadfast state of affairs in your relationships. Enjoy it, but refrain from apologizing for being less than accommodating last month. Your job is to be true to yourself, not to be a doormat—as you will discover, beginning December 20, when you once again push back against people trying to run your life.
Career, Success, and Money
As the year winds down, you review not only what you have done in these areas but also the impact your actions created. Surprisingly, you don’t find disaster, but rather a new appreciation for yourself and your resourcefulness. No matter what gets thrown at you, you find a way to make it work for you. Pat yourself on the back.
Pitfalls and Potential Problems
Feeling grounded and more centered is not a message that it’s okay to go backward. You can’t. But you can go inward and confront whatever is troubling you, which at this moment is the feeling that everything is okay—which seems antithetical to what you experienced this year. The truth is, things can be difficult and okay all at the same time.
Rewarding Days
8, 9, 30, 31
Challenging Days
6, 7, 11, 12
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Taurus Action Table These dates reflect the best—but not the only—times for success and ease in these activities, according to your Sun sign. |
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FEB |
MAR |
APR |
MAY |
JUN |
JUL |
AUG |
SEP |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
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Move |
10, 11 |
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4, 5 |
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Start a class |
15, 16 |
4, 5 |
19, 20 |
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Seek coaching/counseling |
23, 24 |
25, 26 |
9, 10 |
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Ask for a raise |
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4, 5 |
12, 13 |
3, 4 |
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Get professional advice |
6, 7 |
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13, 14 |
3, 4 |
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Get a loan |
10, 11 |
15, 16 |
15, 16 |
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New romance |
19, 20 |
26, 27 |
6, 7 |
3, 4 |
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Vacation |
10, 11 |
24, 25 |
17, 18 |
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16,27 |
8 |
20 |
27 |
31 |
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