Your strong sense of the value of things gives you an excellent business and economic sense, enabling you to spot a bargain and to conserve and build up your financial resources. This is assisted by your capacity for getting others to feel protective towards you. Whilst you tend to lack the more dynamic get-up-and-go self-confidence of the classic entrepreneur, you have nonetheless a quiet determination which gets you wherever you want to go.
Your home, and no doubt your evergreen garden, will be especially important to you and you will make your ‘nest’ both secure and comfortable. You are a naturally good neighbour, and although you tend to be a rather quiet, private and indeed even secretive person, you do feel a sense of responsibility for those around you. This can mean that you are the child who ends up looking after your parents when your brothers and sisters are off doing their own thing.
You are strongly sensual and tend to be rather allergic to ideas and theories. You think best in pictures and symbols and by simply doing and experiencing things, and getting the feel of how they work. You are naturally creative and artistic with a strongly lyrical, musical and poetic bent. You can get swept away on a soaring melody, or by a particular nuance of colour, scent or texture. You can use your body as a barometer, for it will tend to reflect faithfully your inner moods and emotions.
Childhood was, and probably still is, enormously important to you. In an often threatening world, you may well seek to retreat into the secure and familiar. This may lead you to seek out a steady, routine occupation which offers long-term security rather than something that can feed your rich imagination.
When these two sides of you are working in creative tandem, this is an immensely caring combination. It is an ideal mix for anyone in the caring, counselling or nursing professions or indeed in any kind of work where the care and nourishment of others is the central preoccupation, such as infant-school teaching, catering and hotel work.
Relationships
Emotional relationships and family are central to your well-being. You are strongly domestic, and your capacity for intimacy and nest-building blossoms when you have found the right person. You long for total union and, once you have taken the plunge, you will invest all your rich emotional and supportive energy into your relationships. You need to feel sure of your ground, however, before you will commit yourself. Your romantic and possessive qualities make for stability and endurance.
Your Greatest Strengths
Nourishing, protective and diplomatic approach; reliable, sustained, supportive concern for others; capacity to translate emotional experience into works of art.
Your Greatest Weaknesses
Tendency to carry the world upon your shoulders; sensitivity to real or imagined insults; stubborn prejudices; a narrow preoccupation with your own approach to life; lack of sympathy for ideas and theories which are outside your experience.
Images for Integration
A baker undertakes to feed an orphanage … Dr Spock teaching mothers how to bring up their children … Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
Famous Personalities
Penelope Cruz (actress), Sandra Dee (film actress), Gabriel Fauré (composer), David Icke (sportsman and New Age prophet), Joan Miró (painter), Ted Mosel (dramatist), Robert Oppenheimer (atomic physicist), Lynn Redgrave (actress), Peter and Anthony Shaffer (dramatist twins), Dr Benjamin Spock (childcare specialist), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer).
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SUN TAURUS
Whenever you accept our views, we shall be in full agreement with you.
MOSHE DAYAN
True patriotism doesn‘t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Themes
EARTH/FIRE Artistic; regal; practical imagination; substantial personality; fixed opinions; a leader; inflexible; proud; love of beauty; loyal; affectionate; vain; strong values; materialistic; snobbish; ambitious; capable; masterful.
Do you want possessions or fame? Are you a charismatic show-off or a predictable, solid property owner? Do you want to conserve or flaunt the things you love most? You have what could be called a substantial personality – the kind that builds empires and runs them for a hobby. Although you tend to be conventional in values, you are nevertheless quite outspoken and flamboyant in expression, and you leave no one in doubt about where you stand, at least on the issues that seem worthy of your attention.
You are one of the combinations that rarely suffers from an inferiority complex, and as a result you can do almost anything to which you set your mind. You do your homework too, and are secure in what you know. With fixed ideas about how to get things done, you will definitely do things your way because you want the best and the longest-lasting result.
You make a good executive or leader of some sort because you have amazing powers of concentration which take you through to the end. And you are not afraid to call a spade a spade and to stick to your guns on principle. No wavering or dilly-dallying for you. Even in the most humble of positions, you bring a dedication and nobility to your work that makes others admire and respect you.
There is a quiet introvert within you, which is happy to plod along in comfortable grooves as long as your security and plans for greater security remain intact. At one level, your needs are straightforward – you value the solid, sensible and sensual things of this world and you want a steady supply of them as well. On the other hand, however, a simple, quiet life is just not quite enough. The darkest side of you could be a bit like the fisherman’s wife who always wants more – her grandiose fantasies keep mushrooming until finally it is God she wants to be! The need for tangible proof of your specialness, greatness and loveableness can make you a bit like her, and your pride can get out of hand.
If you find life is getting a little boring, you are likely to do something a bit risky. Sticking your elegant neck out, you discover that you have a real ham inside you that loves to sing, dance, and entertain. And what fun you have doing it! In other words, besides the introvert you also have a daredevil extrovert inside you that wants to throw caution to the wind and go on wild spending sprees. That side of you is also very sociable and you can be a courteous, classy host or hostess when you choose to entertain. The people you invite to your home – which is where you like to do your socializing – will be individuals and friends you truly value. You just cannot fake the way you feel so why pretend that you identify with the waifs and losers of the world?
Relationships
In close relationships you are passionate, loyal, generous and 100-percent involved, although that percentage means you can be pretty demanding as well. Arguments can be real knock-out affairs because triumph is all-important to you, so you need to be sure