At home a Taurus is like a country squire – lord (or lady) of the manor. They love to entertain lavishly, to make others feel secure in their home and to encourage others to derive the same sense of satisfaction as they do from it. If you are invited for dinner at the home of a Taurus you can expect the best food and best entertainment. Be prepared for a tour of the house and expect to see your Taurus friend exhibit a lot of pride and satisfaction in his or her possessions.
Taurus people like children but they are usually strict with them. The reason for this is they tend to treat their children – as they do most things in life – as their possessions. The positive side to this is that their children will be well cared for and well supervised. They will get every material thing they need to grow up properly. On the down side, Taurus can get too repressive with their children. If a child dares to upset the daily routine – which Taurus loves to follow – he or she will have a problem with a Taurus parent.
Horoscope for 2012
Major Trends
You have been idealistic about your career for many years now, and now that your career planet is in your spiritual 12th house (it entered last year) this trend continues and will go on for many more years. It’s not enough for you to just make money and achieve status; you need to do this in a spiritual, socially conscious way. This is the challenge these days.
For the past two years you have been very health conscious. Daily disciplined regimes have been more interesting. Probably you are watching the diet more but it is a struggle. Later in the year it will get easier. The focus on health continues in the year ahead.
Ever since Uranus moved into Aries last year, and into a square aspect with your love planet Pluto, love has been challenging and highly unstable. Instability is perhaps the hardest thing for a Taurus to handle. They need – yearn for – stability, security and an established routine. The love life and marriage has been just the opposite. Love continues getting tested in the year ahead, especially after October 5.
When Jupiter entered your sign in the latter half of 2011, you entered a period of prosperity and this continues in the year ahead. Jupiter will be in your sign until June 11, and then moves into your money house. So, you are living the good life, travelling and enjoying all the pleasures of the body. Also you have the wherewithal to indulge these things.
Neptune makes a move this year (this only happens every 14 or so years) from your 10th house to your 11th house. Thus you are making friends with spiritual types these days. Many of you are joining spiritual organizations and groups or becoming more involved with them than usual. This is a long term trend now.
Your areas of greatest interest this year are the body, image and personal pleasure (until June 11); finance (from June 11 onwards); children and creativity (from January 1 until July 3); health and work (until October 5); love, romance and social activities (after October 5); religion, philosophy, theology, foreign travel and higher education; friends, groups and group activities (from February 3 onwards); and spirituality.
Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year are the body, image and personal pleasure (until June 11); finance (from June 11 onwards); sex, personal transformation, personal reinvention and occult studies (until August 30); and love, romance and social activities (from August 30 onwards).
Health
(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, these perspectives were identical. But these days there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)
Health should be good this year, Taurus. All the major long-term planets are either in a good aspect or leaving you alone. So energy and vitality are basically good. Certainly, over the course of a year there will be periods where your health is less easy than usual, perhaps even stressful, but these things are caused by the planetary transits; they are temporary and not trends for the year ahead. When the stressful transits pass, your natural good health returns. These stressful periods will be from January 20 to February 18; July 22 to August 22; and October 23 to November 21. These are the times to rest and relax more and to pace yourself better.
Your 6th house of health is strong this year, showing a great focus on health. But since health is basically good, I would say that your problem could be an ‘over focus’ or a tendency to magnify little things into big things – bigger than they actually are.
Good though the health outlook is, you can make it even better. Give more attention to the following areas: the neck and throat (regular neck massage, especially the back of the neck, will be good to release tension there); the kidneys and hips (regular hip massage will be powerful); the gall bladder; and the spine, knees, teeth, bones, skin and overall skeletal alignment (regular visits to a chiropractor or osteopath would be a good idea). Give the skin more protection when you are out in the sun. Therapies such as the Alexander Technique or Feldenkrais would be good to help your posture, and I also like craniosacral therapy, which work with the bones in the neck as well as the head. Give the knees more support when exercising too. All these areas are the most vulnerable ones in the year ahead, and any problems would most likely begin there. So keeping them healthy and fit is sound preventive medicine.
Venus, your health planet, is a very fast-moving planet, and over the course of the year she moves through all the signs and houses of your Horoscope. So there are many short-term health trends that are best covered in the monthly reports.
Reflexology
Try to massage the whole foot on a regular basis, but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’, as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and top side of the feet (see below).
Saturn will move into Scorpio on October 5, which will be a stressful aspect for you, so overall energy will not be up to its usual standards. However, Saturn by itself is not enough to cause major problems. It is when many long-term planets gang up on you that we get concerned. Still, it is an issue. You have to become more selective and choosy as to how you use your energy; you can’t do everything and priorities have to be set.
Home and Family
Your 4th house of home and family is not a ‘house of power’ this year. This means the trend is to the status quo. You have more latitude and freedom here but no special desire to make changes. You are more or less content with things the way they are.
Your family planet, the Sun, gets eclipsed twice every year and this year is no different. These eclipses tend to bring out problems in the home or with the family (the dirty laundry, the grudges and dissatisfactions) and thus forces correction. This year the eclipses occur on May 20 and November 13 and we will discuss them in the monthly reports.
Your family planet will be travelling with Jupiter from May 6 to May 14, which is basically a happy aspect. You are likely to have opportunities to move (a happy move), renovate, enlarge or sell the home or receive expensive items for the home. There will be opportunities in the real estate field as well. The family as a whole (and especially a parent or parent figure) prospers during that period. Your family planet will also make nice aspects to Jupiter from October 3 to October 11.
If you are planning to beautify the home, to repaint or make cosmetic kinds of changes or to buy objects of beauty for