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The Sum of Taurus
Materialism and the Mother Planet
Taurus is an orphan of the Zodiac, without a "ruling" planet. This has made them self-reliant, self-rewarding, self-actualizing materialists. What is of value is what can be seen, touched and tasted. Venus has been assigned to Taurus, temporarily on the universal scheme of things, to allay Taurus anxiety and at least make life pleasurable. Venus, aside from imbuing Taurus with the love of beautiful people and valuable things, (and dispising the inverse) is of little value, and only makes Taurus pine for gold. Taurus' feet are firmly in the ground, the Earth. They hate to lose touch with her, even for sleeping in a loft. These are first-floor people with a big garage. As the salt of the Earth, Taurus hold special reverence for land, and owning a part of it. The land and the body are one, and Taurus wants to hold on for all time.
All About the Body Body
Meanwhile, Taurus romps. Taurus is the body as god; the mind immersed, the body enjoyed; Taurus is at home within the body and accepts all its functions as self-discovery. Taurus revels in sex, eating, sleeping, even the less appealing activities, sweating, shitting and slobbering; nothing about the body or what comes from it is off-putting. The Taurus’ first and last love is the body, the initial way the Taurus connects love with ownership. If Taurus loves its own body, it’s assumed you will, too, and they want you to prove it—Taurus loves receiving oral sex. The secret of the Taurus sex appeal is a total commitment to all that the body can experience, to go the last mile for pleasure. On those terms, who wouldn’t want to fuck a Taurus? Few people turn them down.
Taurus factoid: If they get mad, they stay mad a long time
A Malefic Star?
The life of a Taurus may be Earth-bound, but Taurus' destiny instead hangs on a star: Aldebaran, which forms the bright red eye of the Zodiacal constellation of the raging bull, and glares menacingly at the hunter Orion system nearby. Aldebaran is a deadly warning to Taurus’ tormentors or typecasters. For centuries the giant star was considered a malefic—bad luck for those who crossed its path. And who would trifle with Taurus? Modern astrologers see only the raw, awesome power of Aldebaran.
The Myth and the Minotians
Part of the mythology of Taurus involves a Planet X—Taurus’ hitherto unknown and unseen ruler—which is supposed to enter our solar system once in a millennia, and then only to cause disruption and catastrophe. Sometime between 1600-1700 BCE there was a large tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea that some historians hypothesize devastated the Minoan civilization—whose icon was the bull—on the island of Crete. Was this the loss of innocence, which inspired the story of Atlantis? Even if new theories of a giant gas planet "Tyche", outside our asteroid belt don't pan out, there remains plenty of speculation of undiscovered planets and other celestial objects.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "CircusRider"
Dancing as sexual congress
Inside every Taurus is humanity. Taurus isn’t just the animal, but a rodeo acrobat riding bareback, a syncopation of female and the male, top and bottom. Here Venus bequeaths art and athleticism, music and muscle. Taurus natives radiate calm and fortitude. Strength within and sensual beauty without, proving that beauty is really more than skin-deep.
Nothing Good Comes Quick
Most of the time Taurus is painstakingly slow, almost ponderous, but given enough time, comes on strong in the end. Taurus is the tortoise that mocks the hare. Taurus proceeds cautiously, prudently. The bull has no wellspring of faith to rely on. They don’t cultivate and count on luck the way some planet-ruled signs do. Taurus has only the one existence, there is no heavenly afterlife. Taurus is stuck on Earth, and fretting over god or heaven doesn't pay the bills. Instead of religion, Taurus has the moment, and feels it throughout the body, like a tremor. Taurus listens to the body, and serves its needs. The Taurus fears no body part nor body function. The body itself is a temple, of gold; the body councils Taurus as if it were its ruling planet
Sex life with a Taurus: Taurus is the do-me passive type. Period.
The Body Culture
The neck, throat, adenoids, tonsils, larynx, and the thyroid gland. Taurus females have lithe, sensual necks, while males are usually yoked there. Taurians can gauge the health of the thyroid by their personality: hyper, and they’re insecure and jittery; hypo and they’re overweight and constipated. At either extreme, Taurians are way too stubborn to change their ways, even when young. Logic cannot prevail, it takes an earthquake.
On a Mission of Love—or a Labor
Taurus is opposite Scorpio, and has many of the same passions, but wants a different type of power. Scorpio wants total domination in return for love; Tauruses loves like a vocation, like polishing the silver, a labor of love. Taurians empower themselves with wealth. Taurus will preserve what they own and love grows ever stronger as time goes on. (Double-Taurus Malcolm X is a case in point)
Taurus the Singer
Taurus hears music coursing through their ancestral memories, they are the children of the Earth, and Africa is the Mother. In their collective consciousness, Taurians have been given dominion over the earthly pleasures and stewardship over Earth’s resources. What they lack in faith, they make up for by their love of music. The bestial urges of the bull are tamed with sweet melodies, like the Persian King was lulled by by Scheherazade’s thousand stories. Only Beauty’s soothing voice can cool the savage Beast.
Taurus the Poet
Omar Khayyám—a triple Taurus—said it all when it comes to a Taurian rapture over the pleasures of life:
A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou.
Like an existentialist pirate, Taurus has a treasure chest of all his or her goodies and objets d’amour. Lke the ancient pharaohs, Taurians want to entomb them all in the royal burial chamber for safe keeping.
Pleasured to Death
Taurus addictions—for everything from rich foods to fine wines—cause low blood sugar, indigestion, bad skin and impaired liver function, to name a few ailments. These are simple, telltale signs of excess fat and sugar. Chew on that, Ferdinand.
Self-indulgence is the ruin of the Taurus (but try to tell them that). They can’t overeat, over-drink, and yet retain their patina of beauty. The acne? The lethargy? the flab? The Taurus sweet tooth is stronger than the strongest bull. No substance on earth is more dangerous than refined sugar in all its ugly incarnations. Don’t fool yourself. This includes sucrose, fructose, honey, maltose and anything else that tastes sweet. Sugar and animal fats kill Taurus slow and painfully. Their own joints and feet will bring gluttonous Taurians to their knees.
Eat, Digest, Eat, Digest
A happy bowel movement, the end of the nutritional process, makes for a happy Taurus. Taurus needs grass and grains to clean them out. But failing that, supplements are the only way to maintain health. The B vitamins, the enigmatic enzymes that catalyze all chemical processesare the stomach’s management team. In order to insure we have them around, everyone should swallow a B complex formula every day—for health, digestion AND energy. Not all B-complex are created equal—cheap, synthetic drug store brands or chain brands (like GNC) can even cause indigestion. Choose only natural, high quality B complexes that include B12 for energy and B6 to prevent water retention, usually available at quality heath food stores. Don’t economize on health.
OTHER MUST-HAVES: vitamin C (ascorbic); vitamins A&D and Vitamin E. A day without these precious elements is a bad day. To counteract and neutralize all that acid build up you also need the minerals especially calcium, iodine, potassium and zinc. Use vitamins and minerals like food, not like drugs. These natural substances can be taken in larger amounts than the FDA minimum requirements for better, faster acting results. For example: feeling bloated and lazy? Pound a super shot of 6,000 I.U.s of vitamin E and get your motor rolling within a few hours.
Graze the Grains
Greasy meat may have B vitamins, but your stomach would rather get them from brown rice, wheat, oats, or rye. Think pasture foods, Taurus, and graze, graze, graze. Make Crunchy mung bean and fresh alfalfa sprouts, thick leafy greens. High roughage vegetables like collards, watercress, broccoli, and cabbage will scour the stomach. Best for Taurus is the natural, earth-friendly Macrobiotic way. This is a return to a basic vegan diet, as developed by George Ohsawa, in order to honor our body’s real needs.
Recommended Vitamins Brands
HEALTHY ORIGINS, 100% natural Vitamin E, 1,000 IU caps
CARLSON Vitamin A & D combination, 25,000-1000 IU caps
CARLSON Vitamin C powder with Calcium
KAL Dolomite Calcium & Magnesium, powder
JARROW Formula B-complex caps
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