Taurus in the Sun
The Sun passes through Taurus from about April 20 to May 20 each year, so anyone born in those weeks has a Taurus Sun, and this is the placement the sign columns write about. A chart is built around its Sun, which we read as the fixed point of the whole person, the ground of your identity, your vitality and the aim that gives your life its direction. All the other planets are measured against that point. Taurus is fixed Earth and its ruler is Venus, the planet of value and love, so a Sun here sets the identity of the person in what is real, valued and kept.
What Taurus in the Sun means
Earth is the element of matter, the body and practical results, and the fixed signs stand in the middle of each season, when it is at its fullest and holds its course. Taurus stands in the middle of the northern spring, when the growth begun under Aries takes root and becomes solid, and the sign works the same way, by settling, gathering and keeping. A person with a Taurus Sun trusts what can be touched, tasted, counted and used, and an idea becomes real to this sign once it has produced something. This is why Taurus starts slowly, since it wants to know what a thing is worth before it gives its effort.
The Bull is the symbol of Taurus, and it names two real qualities of this placement, great calm and great resistance to being pushed. Taurus absorbs a good deal of pressure with little visible change, and the harder others press it to move the more firmly it stays where it is. Anger comes slowly to this sign and leaves just as slowly. Venus supplies the other side of its nature, a love of beauty, comfort, food and music, and for this sign these pleasures are a way of measuring what has value.
Your strengths
Endurance is the chief strength of a Taurus Sun. This placement keeps working at an even pace long after quicker signs have moved on, and over the years the work adds up to a great deal. The source of its persistence is the fixed modality, which keeps attention on one thing for as long as the thing requires. Taurus is reliable in the plainest sense, as it does what it said it would do and looks after what has been placed in its care. Its judgment of quality is very good as well, in people, in materials, in workmanship and in money.
Your challenges
Resistance to change is the main difficulty of a Taurus Sun. Taurus holds its habits and opinions with the same strength it brings to its best work, and so it can keep a job, a method or a belief long after that thing has stopped serving anyone. Change feels like a loss even when the change is good, because so much has been invested in what exists. Stubbornness is the visible form of this difficulty and inertia is the quieter form, a slowness to start that can turn into years of delay. Possessiveness is a second challenge, since a sign that values keeping can treat people as belongings and can rest its sense of safety on what it owns.
Taurus Sun in love
Taurus loves through presence, touch and steady care. This sign commits slowly because it wants to be sure of a person first, and once it has committed it is very loyal. Affection is physical and practical here, shown through food, gifts, shared routines and time together, and mixed signals wear on it. Partners can find Taurus very hard to move in an argument, and the task is to say early what is wrong and to accept that the person you love has a will of their own. Scorpio lies opposite Taurus in the zodiac and the attraction between the two is a common one, because Scorpio brings the intensity and the readiness to let go of what is finished.
Friends and family
Taurus keeps a small number of friends and keeps them for decades. Friendship with this sign is built on shared meals, shared work and loyalty through hard times, and it offers help in practical form, with money, labor or a place to stay. A Taurus parent gives children regular routines, a secure home and a great deal of patience, and its difficulty is accepting a child who wants to live differently from the way the family has always lived.
Work and money
Work that produces something real, at a pace that allows it to be done well, is where a Taurus Sun thrives. Farming, gardening, building, cooking, craft, design, music, banking, property and any trade that depends on quality all suit this placement, and work whose results cannot be seen leaves this sign unsatisfied. Money matters to Taurus for the security it gives, and traditional astrology makes this the natural sign of the second house, the part of the chart that deals with income and possessions. Most people with this placement save steadily and buy for quality, and their difficulty is a reluctance to spend what has been saved, even on what would help them.
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Your Taurus Sun in WaveForm astrology
The account above is the Western one, and every chart cast on AwakenedSky also carries a WaveForm reading, which can be had only with us. WaveForm astrology treats each planet as a job performed inside you, and for each job it shows how hard your own chart makes that work and how to restore it after a failure.
Your Sun has one job, to hold your reference, a calm certainty that what you are aiming at is real, and in Taurus this certainty works through the body and through what has been built and kept. A sign makes some things cheap, meaning they come with little effort, and other things expensive, meaning they stay fully available and ask for deliberate, repeated work. Taurus makes patience, holding and the felt sense of worth cheap, and it charges heavily for any change of form. WaveForm names the failure of this sign fixity of vehicle, which means holding what you want so tightly in its first form that it has no other way of reaching you. A steady Taurus Sun is clear about what it is working for and accepts the form in which it comes. An unsteady one demands proof and grips harder on the plan it first made. The remedy for a Taurus Sun is to let its aim be real before the evidence arrives and to loosen its hold on the form, and the houses and aspects of your chart name the places where this costs you most.
Your Sun is one part of your chart
A Sun sign describes the center of a person and leaves most of the chart unread. Your Moon adds your emotional needs, your Rising adds the way you meet the world, and Mercury, Venus and Mars add your thinking, your loving and your way of acting. A Taurus Sun with a Capricorn Moon is doubly grounded and hard to shift, while the same Sun with a Gemini Moon is more talkative and far more willing to change its mind. An Aries Rising gives this patient center a quick and direct manner.
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