Relationships
Sometimes you seem to be the absolute epitome of the rational, sensible person, ready to invest only in what you can taste, touch, see and add up. And yet at other times you are capable of acting from totally emotional concerns, and of expressing outlandish beliefs, fantastic ideas and irrational behaviour.
Although you are romantic and loyal, given half a chance you will dominate most relationships. You are possessive and demanding, but can be generous, fun-loving and exciting when you have found the right person to balance your big appetites. Home life is extremely important to you, and you want it to be a haven for enjoyment and creative hobbies.
In co-operative ventures you are quick to take charge, and you may develop a following of subordinates who come to trust your competence and leadership implicitly. But your raucous sense of humour and love of a party endears you to others. Quite simply, your personality stands out as vital, outrageous and funny, but you will win more friends and influence more people if, paradoxically, you attach less importance to personal conquests. If you can do this, you will be an inspiration to loved ones instead of a moody artist they have to put up with.
Your Greatest Strengths
Charisma; confidence; courage; indefatigable resilience; unswerving belief in yourself; organizational flair and practical instinct for making your dreams come true.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Stubbornness; tendency to be quarrelsome and to ride roughshod over others; self-centredness; tendency to let emotionalism turn you into a bully.
Images for Integration
A pirate’s chest full of gold is discovered, which adds to the already vast empire of Ghengis Khan … An orgy of love on a carpet of bluebells.
Famous Personalities
Cate Blanchett (actress), Robert Browning (poet), Georges Braque (artist), Salvador Dali (artist), Ian Dury (rock star), Susan Hampshire (actress), Immanuel Kant (philosopher), Kathryn Kuhlman (minister and healer), Robespierre (French revolutionary leader), Rabindranath Tagore (poet), Stevie Wonder (singer and musician), Malcolm X (American black leader).
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SUN TAURUS
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
KARL MARX
Doin what comes naturally. IRVING BERLIN, Annie Get Your Gun
Themes
EARTH/EARTH Sensuality v. self-control; love of nature; practical; supportive; seeks certainties; slow and steady; deep calm v. explosive anger; good business sense; natural counsellor; dry, mischievous humour; dictatorial; possessive; unflappable.
Is life for you a delight and pleasure to be enjoyed, or a practical affair to be managed and organized? You can be torn between a lazy, sensual self-indulgence and a deliberate, even stoic, self-control; between an almost mystical love of nature and a matter-of-fact cost accountant’s approach to life.
You are naturally a sensualist, with a keen, raw enjoyment of the tastes and scents of foods, the sounds of music and the countryside, the textures of things, the visual delights of life and art. Yet you seek to be in command of the changing material world, and that includes your own body, a tendency that can lead you to deny your own feelings and desires. For above all you seek certainty and security for yourself and your loved ones.
In all you do, you want to get down to basics, to the practical certainties and self-evident realities. You want to define things, lay foundations and simplify. You can become impatient with abstract theories and yet be as rigid and dogmatic in the way you believe things should be done as any theorist. Your criterion is: does it work? You are a hands-on teacher who believes in the power of experience and in what you can directly see for yourself.
You have a deep understanding of some of the basics that make the world go round, such as pleasure, sex, security and money. This makes you excellent at business matters and equally gives you a gift for therapeutic work and counselling. You are at your happiest and most creative when you are doing work that both expresses your loving care of others and brings pleasure, and yet also produces tangible results. Careers or pursuits that will bring out the best in you include cooking, music, painting, creating a home, nursing, counselling, teaching or indeed building up a business around your own interests.
Whilst you very much live in the here-and-now, you also like to feel that the foundations you are laying will be of permanent value. You have the rare gift of real common sense, and whether in the area of psychology, business, art or science, you can always be depended on to offer sound, well-grounded, straight-from-the-shoulder insights. You have a rather slow, steady, dependable approach to things, and a quiet, even shy, manner. This can make your dry, tell-it-as-it is, often bawdy sense of humour all the more surprising.
You are a deeply grounded individual with great reserves of practical kindness, and your sheer sanity and stability can be enormously reassuring to those who know you. In consequence you can become the proverbial rock to your friends, on whom all depend. Your tea is served in mugs not in cups, in the kitchen not the sitting room. You enjoy what is in front of you and you deal with the problems, often those of other people, with a quiet stability and directness of spirit. All this makes your occasional outbursts of seemingly uncontrollable rage all the more mystifying. Such rages, when they occur, are the consequence of your habitual calm and desire for order which demands that you keep the dark side of life at bay. Hence when your accumulated angers and irritations do break through, you have little experience of coping with them.
Because you can be so understanding and supportive of others, the great risk for you is that you will be treated as Atlas, the support of the world, so that your own needs are constantly neglected. When this happens you may find yourself retreating into illness to attract the attention and support that you too need to receive.
Relationships
As a strongly earthy, sensual type, sex is likely to play an important part in your relationships, yet you are not inclined to play the field. On the contrary, you tend to be solidly, stolidly faithful, for what you want in relationships is security, stability and, as in all things, certainty.
You can offer total dedication and loyalty but you will expect the same in return. You expect to possess your mate and to be possessed for always. Once this is agreed, you become a living demonstration that true love and devotion is centred in the will rather than the heart. Yet for all your love of stability there is one big exception to this picture: you find yourself being drawn magnetically, and irrationally towards strongly Fire types (here). The magic of Fire’s unbridled imagination and intuition, and their courage to plunge into the unknown without looking at the map and checking the supplies, can irresistably attract you, as much as your effortless stability can attract them.
Your Greatest Strengths
Kind,