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Taurus
tain 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. (From “The Sky Within,” by
Steven Forrest. Courtesy of Matrix Software [http://thenewage.com]
and Steven Forrest [http://www.stevenforrest.com].)
Among its several natal programs, Matrix Software created a unique report
based on the published works of the early-twentieth-century astrologer Grant Lewi
(1901–1952). Lewi’s highly original delineations were recognized as creative and
insightful by his contemporaries. One measure of the appeal of his work is that his
books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What are still in print. The following
is excerpted from the report program “Heaven Knows What”:
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.” (Ulysses S.
Grant, born in Taurus, April 27, 1822.)
“In all movements, we bring to the front as the leading question in
each case, the property question.” (The Communist Manifesto of Karl
Marx, born in Taurus, May 5, 1818.)
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
(Karl Marx.)
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
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