Taureans – An Appreciation

“Experience is never at bargain price”
Alice B Toklas – Sun, Venus, Neptune + Pluto in Taurus.

The Sun is in Taurus and this year’s Taurus Season is not like the others. Jupiter and Uranus are aligning in this sign for the first time in over 80 years, exact this Sunday at 2:26 AM Universal Time.*

Uranus has been making Taureans more like Aquarians since 2018 and although undeniably invigorating, it’s also an erratic frequency for this Fixed Earth sign. Jupiter stabilizes and perhaps even monetizes the wild uranian vibe. Reinventions in haphazard play since 2018 are finally becoming more substantial. (See your Monthly Horoscopes for more details.)

With Taureans the it-sign of the moment, it’s a good time to pay homage to our Cow, right?

Yes, we know there are the Minotaur types, holed up in their own personal labyrinth bellowing for homage. Any sign of the zodiac can express sub-optimally. But this is an appreciation. What do you like about this sign and who are your fave Taureans?

While Uranus takes everything over the top, Taurus people have always been ingenious. They’re the kings and queens of D.I.Y. miracles and the low-key builders of resource stacks.

They know that tunnel-vision is not necessarily inspiring to others or even explicable from the outside but it takes them where they need to go. Their stubborn, singular focus should be an asset class of it’s own.

How can you tell when something is no longer a fad, nor even a trend, but actually established? It’s when Taurus is buying in. This is not an insult.

With one exception, this zodiac sign is not an early adopter. Taureans bide their time, monitoring the terrain and looking at the baseline numbers beneath the hype.

And…

…this acumen allows them to spot breaks in the algorithm, anomalies, supply chain kinks and illogical assumptions.

They’re not early but they’re precise. The exception? When it’s their business or idea and el Toro controls it from the ground up. The only ‘early’ a Taurean trusts is when they’ve generated it. And of course, a Taurus is always timely.

I love the Taurean sensuality and gravitas. Their presence is nearly always reassuring and they’re excellent at ‘normalizing’ unpleasantly abnormal situations. Also inspirational: their easy enjoyment of their various appetites, with the guilt option left unticked by default and reverence for the classics.

Think about it; if all you need know for an everyday health regime was written by, say, Pythagoras – how much time does that save?!

Frugality is another core Cow trait, even though it was deemed naff over the boom years. If you think you know a non-frugal Taurus – an opulent, maximalista lover of luxe – consider this: Their nature doesn’t allow them to buy tat.

Venusian to the bone, Taureans love texture, design, style and beauty but their risk-aversion ensures they only acquire items that could, if neccessary, be sold. Ideally, of course, for more than it cost them. They’re investment-minded before they’ve even made a cent.

Seriously, if you have a Taurus child over the age of – say – eight, go and ask them what they think would be a good thing for you to put some money into. You may be surprised.

Young or emerging Taureans often train their tastes by trawling high-auction sites and design books, schooling themselves on provenance ages before such items come within their reach.

Some even quietly consider things – at least, their things – to be sentient. If so, they’re unlikely to talk about it because they also like their status-quo credentials, but diligent observers may well be rewarded by the sight of a Taurus communing with a favorite vase.

A liquid-eyed triple Taurean I knew at uni named nearly everything she owned and there seemed to be a protocol for naming stuff. If she liked someone’s clothes, accessories, scent – anything – she’d sidle over to them as if they’d just crashed the sound-light barrier on a unicycle and say something like ‘wow‘  in wide-eyed admiration, stroking the texture or sniffing the air appreciatively.

I was in awe of her command of money – my friends and I mostly acted as if money was an agitating quantum force that was clearly completely out of our control.

Ms Taurus had a budget, got left-overs from restaurant meals bagged to take home, mended & maintained her clothes as if they were religious artifacts and became the first person I knew to buy an ingot of gold bullion, calling it her sleeping aid.

The late poet Louise Gluck frequently referred to her Taurean psyche. In her poem Memoir, for example:

“I was born cautious, under the sign of Taurus…

..And my story in any case, wasn’t unique
though, like everyone else, I had a story,
a point of view.

A few words were all I needed:
nourish, sustain, attack.”

Could ‘nourish, sustain, attack‘ be the Cow Person Credo?

Image: Franco Rubartelli – Veruschka