Season: April 20 - May 20
Rules: 2nd House of Values
Planetary Ruler: Venus ♀️
Time of Day: 9 am - 11 am
Astrological Age: 4320 BCE - 2160 BCE
Spices/Herbs: Rose Petals, Myrrh, Olives
Anatomical Association: Neck
Animal Ambassador: Bull/Ox
Colors: Green, Orange, Gold, Bronze
Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac and ruler of our second house of values. Out of the 24 hours in a day, Taurus would represent the time frame between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.. These hours for the collective most often represent a time of day in which we commence work, class begins, shops open, we begin recieving calls, etc.. Particularly, this is a time of day in which we lay foundations by daily repetitive actions and routines and Taurus is all about such kinds of foundations with repetitive actions and routines.
If you have a Taurus in your life, you are probably very thankful for them, if not, you must have some strong Scorpio aspects in your chart and they are the bane of your existence, lmao. Either way, Taurus individuals are best known for their stubborn adherence to a particular code or set of values and they are more often than not quite successful at reminding everyone what that code of ethics is. The very nature of Taurus is to uphold structures that represent things of value and for Taurus their connection to that structure is very physical, wanting to “show up” and exercise their values.
Taurus is an Earth sign and a fixed one at that. As an earth sign, Taurians tend to be very practically-minded and present. Also being ruled by Venus, Taurians love to engage in and are inspired by activities that make them “feel alive” in their bodies. These activities can include things like working with their hands, making art, trying new foods, traveling, watching dramas, gossiping, drinking/taking drugs, having sex, owning pets, sports, dancing, having children, or interacting with their families. Having children and raising families are quite often associated with Taurus individuals and if a Taurus does not want children, they could have either many animals to satisfy that familial need or have become very involved in some sort of service work in which they are responsible for providing for others. Taurus has very strong paternal instincts and having other living beings for which they can reliably provide for and protect makes Taurus feel very proud on the inside. Those of us with Taurus’s in our lives will recognize this because these beautifully true individuals are often responsible for “laying the foundations” for the rest of us.
Taurians are guilty of being quite routine and predictable as Taurus is a creature of habit, but they need those habits to uphold their foundations. Taurus’s predictability is what makes them so admirably reliable and dependable and If a Taurus is well supported by others in their lives, then they can become something of a brick at the base of a Jenga tower so that if you try to remove them from their position, the whole structure will come crashing down. Also, Taurus will almost never remove themselves from that base position either, as they proudly uphold all the rest of the bricks. In this way, Taurus is exceptionally good at making themselves indispensible to others. They wedge themselves in places where they can repeatedly exercise those values and make wherever that place may be (the workplace, church, school, or their actual homes) like home. Taurus reminds everyone there that they’ve “got their backs” and that they really do regard everyone in the group like family (including doing annoying sibling stuff like teasing). They stand strong as one of the herd, and try their darnest to never be someone who turns their backs on the people they personally feel are important.
During the age of Taurus, between the years 4320 BCE - 2160 BCE the following historical events took place:
Erection of multiple megaliths across Europe
Indus river valley farming and agriculture
Silk first appeared in China
Major developments in Mesopotamian science and technology
Last known wooly mammoths die in Siberia
“Nanna” the moon goddess is first mentioned in Sumerian writing
Cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing used in ancient Sumer and Egypt
First dynasty of Egypt and subsequent early Egyptian dynastic period
Predynastic Egyptian “Scorpion King” worship and evidence of at least two actual “Scorpion Kings”
“Nisaba” the grain goddess worshipped in Egypt
Worship of Anu the sky god by Akkadians
Akkadian Empire and its end
What stands out most to me about this period is the invention of the wheel circa 3500 BCE. This discovery dates back to around the middle of the age, though archaeologists are still unsure where exactly it was invented. Still, what this invention contributed to agriculture and trade during the age of Taurus speaks to what kind of influence those two industries would have had on the collective during this time.
The age of Taurus hosted both the Mesopotamian and Indus river valley civilizations formed as dynastic, family-ruled settlements of people. These groups formed around their prosperous agriculture, and over time both civilizations were able to cultivate more and more complex systems of agriculture that allowed for steady, consistent growth. Then, after the invention of the wheel, trade took off.
Trade allowed for the acquisition of luxury goods. These goods became markers for divide between socioeconomic classes as these luxury goods made it easier for people to distinguish between “haves” and “have-nots.” These luxury goods included things like pottery, glass, precious metals, silk, spices and gold. Trade allowed for highly competitive markets and artisan craftsmanship became a way to display one’s wealth (note how Taurians are often known for liking to show off their collections of nice things). Long periods of stability during the age of Taurus gave way to more “feminine” expressions displayed through art of this time and the worship of feminine goddesses proliferated across ancient Sumer and Egypt around the second half of the age.
What evidence I found of Taurus’s shadow side appeared mainly as the existence of at least two Egyptian proto-dynastic “Scorpion Kings” (Yeah, the guy The Rock played in that 2002 summer blockbuster, The Scorpion King) and the widespread polytheistic worship of demonic gods (I use demonic here to express gods who appear to operate more like “djinn,” being entities that exist on the 4th dimensional plane who neither operate as good nor bad but as forces of nature. Their manipulation of nature from the 4th dimensional plane is what I am defining as demonic, again demonic being used neutrally). These gods include entities mentioned in The Book of Thoth (Bastet, Isis, Horus, Anubis) and while The Book of Thoth’s discovery didn’t happen until 30 BCE in the age of Aries, evidence of these deities’ worship occurred during this time.
I haven’t dug too deep enough yet to form a complete idea about how these demonic entities would have manifested their scorpionic-like qualities, but I can guess that it would likely have been directly related to the worship of them and certain black magick practices performed during rituals of worship, often by the Egyptian kings themselves.
One of the first lessons of alchemy is that in order to create, one must first destroy, isn’t it? Well, demonic entities operate by such a code too. The abundant growth and prosperity of the age of Taurus could have had its cost in ritual sacrifice or nonconsensual sex magick. We can also consider the destructive shadow of having all that Taurian abundance in the forms of disparity of wealth, waste, or abuses of power.
What Taurus can learn from its particularly dark shadow, is that what appears on the outside does not matter quite as much as the spiritual wealth within and Taurus could greatly improve the quality of its life by making efforts to cultivate their own spiritual wealth over their material weath. Looking within, Taurus should aim to free itself of its unhealthy attachments including transactional/codependent relationships to people that resemble demonic soul contracts (staying in jobs with terrible bosses, putting up with narcissistic partners, etc.) Such relationships prevent Taurus from living a truly abundant life, though Taurus will probably consider these people as losses and have quite a hard time letting go anyway. Yet, if Taurus can instead practice allowing people and things to come and go through their lives without always clinging on so tightly, then Taurus can work at achieving instead a spiritual sense of endless abundance and save themselves a lot of blood, sweat and tears that would otherwise shed in their constant stubborn efforts to withstand life’s relentless waves of change.
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