Traditional
Taurus Traits
Patient and reliable
On the dark side....
Jealous and possessive
The Taurean's characteristics are solidity, practicality, extreme determination and
strength of will - no one will ever drive them, but they will willingly and loyally follow
a leader they trust. They are stable, balanced, conservative good, law-abiding
citizens and lovers of peace, possessing all the best qualities of the bourgeoisie. as
they have a sense of material values and physical possessions, respect for property
and a horror of falling into debt, they will do everything in their power to maintain the
security of the status quo and be stupidly hostile to change.
Mentally, they are keen-witted and practical rather than intellectual, but apt to
become fixed in their opinions through their preference for following accepted and
reliable patterns of experience. Their character is generally dependable, steadfast,
prudent, just, firm and unshaken in the face of difficulties. Their vices arise from their
virtues, going to extremes such as being too slavish to the conventions they admire,
obstinately and exasperatingly self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid, ultraconservative,
argumentative, querulous bores, stuck in a self-centered rut. They may develop a
brooding resentment through nursing a series of injuries received and, whether their
characters are positive or negative, they need someone to stroke their egos with a
frequent, "Well Done!"
They are faithful and generous friends with a great capacity for affection, but rarely
make friends with anyone outside their social rank, to which they are ordinarily
excessively faithful. In the main, they are gentle, even tempered, good natured,
modest and slow to anger, disliking quarrelling and avoiding ill-feeling. If they are
provoked, however, they can explode into violent outbursts of ferocious anger in
which they seem to lose all self-control. Equally unexpected are their occasional
sallies into humor and exhibitions of fun.
Although their physical appearance may belie it, they have a strong aesthetic taste,
enjoying art, for which they may have a talent, beauty (actively recoiling from
anything sordid or ugly) and music. They may have a strong, sometimes
unconventional, religious faith. Allied to their taste for all things beautiful is a love for
the good things of life pleasure, comfort, luxury and good food and wine and they
may have to resist the temptation to over indulgence, leading to drunkenness, gross
sensuality, and covetousness.
In their work, Taureans are industrious and good craftsmen, and are not afraid of
getting their hands dirty. They are reliable, practical, methodical and ambitious, within
a framework of obedience to superiors. They are at their best in routine positions of
trust and responsibility, where there is little need of urgency and even less risk of
change, and a pension at the end. Yet they are creative and good founders of
enterprises where the rewards of their productiveness come from their own work
and not that of others. They can flourish in many different trades and professions:
banking, architecture, building, almost any form of bureaucracy, auctioneering,
farming, medicine, chemistry, industry Taureans make good managers and foremen
surveying, insurance, education and, perhaps surprisingly, music and sculpture. They
make an ideal trustee or guardian, and can attain eminence as a chef. Some Taureans
are gifted enough in singing to become opera stars or to excel in more popular types
of music.
They are more than averagely amorous and sensually self-conscious, but sexually
straightforward and not given to experiment. They make constant, faithful, home
loving spouses and thoughtful, kindly parents, demanding too much of neither their
spouses nor children. They can be over possessive and may sometimes play the
game of engineering family rows for the pleasure of making up the quarrel. If anyone
offends their amore proper they can be a determined enemy, though magnanimous in
forgiveness if their opponent makes an effort to meet them halfway.
Physically the Taurean is a heavy, thickset type, sometimes hefty or even clumsy, and
unusually strong. They range from average to shorter than usual height, with broad
shoulders, and tend to be slow walking and inclined to corpulence. They can give an
impression of awkwardness and clumsiness on the one hand, because their breadth
seems disproportionate to their height, but on the other hand they can be extremely
dignified and majestically good looking. Their features often include a broad
forehead, large, well-set eyes, an aquiline nose, a wide mouth with thick lips, set in a
swarthy face with heavy jaws and thick black or sandy hair, often coarse and curling.
Taurus governs the throat and neck and its subjects need to beware throat infections,
goiter and respiratory ailments such as asthma. They are said to be at risk of diseases
of the genitals, womb, liver and kidneys, and of abscesses and rheumatism. Because
their body type has an inclination to physical laziness, Taureans can be overweight.
Warmhearted and loving
Persistent and determined
Placid and security loving
Resentful and inflexible
Self-indulgent and greedy
