on April 19th the sun enters the fixed earth sign of taurus . this marks the suns entry into the 2nd sign of the zodiac. with aries we had initiation into new and better, and now with taurus we must stabilize all the new that has entered into ones life. taurus is a simple sign preferring to keep things that way as it makes life easier. some themes of taurus are money, pleasure, resources, or stability. this is a time when you could enjoy more time in the outdoors. it could also be a time when the focus in your life is money. the suns time in taurus requires stability, and security, so remember that for whatever arises for you during this time. use your sun/moon/rising to see the affirmation that fits this solar cycle for you.
aries: i indulge in my senses today, treating each of them to something they love.
taurus: I am the only one responsible for making my dreams come true.
gemini: I am open to new opportunities that bring out the best in me.
cancer: I deserve peace and tranquility in my thoughts.
leo: I embrace challenges.
virgo: I am driven by my search for happiness.
libra: I am grateful for my unique journey.
scorpio: I welcome existing new opportunities
sagittarius: I celebrate my achievements and look forward tones ones.
capricorn: I believe that every day is an adventure waiting to happen.
aquarius: I get through challenges while staying true to my optimistic, positive nature.
Upapada Lagna - How to read - with real life example
In this post, I explain the houses based on the UL position. I provide an example chart of a married person.
Do not read the first section about UL House, if you feel discussion about what is considered generally attractive would hurt your feelings. I am going by the general societal likes&dislikes of which I & the couple reside in.
For full accuracy, UL needs to be read alongside natal and navamsa. This one is not because this post is for beginners.
How to find which house your UL is:
What is Upapada Lagna?
The UL is a chart within your lagna/natal chart. It provides insight on the first marriage/long-term partnership.
The 12th House Ruler is in 2nd = UL is in 4th House
UL House:
The House of the UL shows the status, family/background and physical attractiveness of the partner.
EX: The chart above, 4th House Leo's ruler (sun) is placed in Taurus. This is a neutral sign for the sun.
This person's wife comes from a middle class family. She is well-known in their community. However, her family background status would be considered below this person as he is upper-middle class. This is part of the neutral affect of the Lord - outcome is nothing notably negative, nothing notably positive.
Do not read the following if you feel discussion about what is considered generally attractive would hurt your feelings. I am going by what the societal norms.
Physically, she has beauty moles (leo/sun influence). She is slender. She has no features that are often considered unattractive such as crooked teeth, disproportional facial features.
2nd House from UL:
The 2nd House from UL shows the longevity of the marriage. If the 2nd House is strong, it can support the marriage despite malefics in the UL house.
In this case, 5th House virgo is the 2nd from UL. The ruler (mercury) is in its domicle/home sign of gemini. Mercury is conjunct a malefic (mars), however mars is not debilitated. This gives a mix of results:
This person's relationship did have a short period of separation when they were dating. However, in married life the marriage has persevered through their difficult stages.
3rd House from UL:
The 3rd House from UL can show if the relationship will result in marriage. It can indicate how quickly or slowly the relationship continues before marriage. For full accuracy, one must read alongside navamsa and natal.
The example chart above has a Libra 6th House as 3rd from UL. It contains a malefic, however saturn is exalted in libra. This relationship remained in dating stages for 9 years before marriage. The delay is a result of Saturn, however the exaltation shows marriage would have inevitably occurred.
Ketu’s influence is negative. As we can see this couple did separate at one point before getting married.
4th House from UL:
The 7th House scorpio is 4th from UL. This house further indicates the spouse's appearance, personality and home.
The ruler of this house (mars) is placed in gemini conjunct mercury. This is not mars debilitation, home sign or exaltation. This resulted in neutral affects:
This person's wife is energetic and social as this is Mars in gemini's nature. Her family background is educated and opinionated.
5th House from UL:
5th from UL shows what stands in the way of marriage, problems in marriage and further emphasizes the timing.
This person has sag 8th H as 5th from UL. The sign of sag represents higher beliefs/religion/education and travel. In this relationship, religion and education were considered problems. This man's family follow judaism. They disliked the girlfriend due to her not following the same religion. After, she converted they still had issue with her as she had not gone to a notable college.
Sag ruler (Jupiter) is in cap. Cap shows saturn traits of delays, patience and restrictions. This marriage was delayed and temporarily separated due to the reasons above.
6th House from UL:
This house further shows longevity of the marriage and problems. It can indicate positives in the marriage as well.
This person has 9th H cap with Jupiter as 6th from UL. 9th and Jupiter deal with religion and education, I discussed above how that was a problem. The same themes occurring again just highlight how much of an issue it was - he almost did not marry her due to the issues.
The positives are this couple is able to travel often (9th H+Jupiter influence)- usually the travel is for work (cap's influence).
7th House from UL:
This can further show blockages to the marriage. If this house has benefics or exalted planets in can indicate blessings that come with marriage.
In this case, the person has Aqua 10th House from UL. Aqua is a sign that is least likely to conform to tradition. 10th House shows authority figures (usually masculine).
In this relationship, the man's family - mainly his father and elder brother - opposed the marriage due to it breaking traditional expectation.
8th house from UL:
This house can indicate affairs/cheating. It further indicates longevity of the marraige.
In this case, the person has pisces moon 8 away from UL. Moon shows fluctuations in the relationship. This relationship did temporarily break, however they got back together and have remained together. This is due to influence of pisce's ruler (jupiter) being in cap aspecting saturn.
9th House from UL:
This can indicate the happiness you get form marriage and any children you may have. If containing debilitated plans and malefics, it can show the types of problems that interfere with creating long-lasting happiness in the marriage and family.
This person has aries venus and rahu 9 away from the UL. Luckily, they are more than 10 degrees apart resulting in it NOT being a conjunction. This person enjoys married life, and is very proud of his children.
The children are too young to be able to fully understand their personalities. However, it is likely they will have traits of aries, venus and rahu.
10th House from UL:
This can provide further insight on children and status after marriage.
In this case, the person has taurus sun in 10th away from UL. After marriage, they did move up in their career -although this was due to their own efforts and not because of the marriage/partner.
11th House from UL:
This can show gains through marriage.
In this case, the person has mercury and mars in gemini in 11th from UL. They became more social and outgoing as a result of their partner.
Due to mar's conjunct mercury, they did gain more fights with relatives. 2nd House in vedic is associated with family.
They did not gain financially. Due to mar's nature in 2nd, they did need to spend more to support the wife's education.
12th House from UL:
This further shows what can or will breakup the relationship.
In this case, the person has cancer 12 away from UL. It was the family that opposed the marriage and did temporarily break up the couple.
My whole life as a star sign Taurus I have battled with the darker traits of my sign holding grudges, trying to fix everything, being stubborn to the point of self sabotage, and leaning into possessive behaviors. Not only does this associate with the negative traits of Taurus, but also just being a human being. I feel guided to be able to fully rid of bad habits, break cycles, and live a more carefree life. But I know that even the best version of myself is not perfect so I do not strive for perfection. I am making it my goal to be more kind to myself, and not get to caught up in the past or future. Happiness is not found its always within you waiting for you to notice its there. Its in the gratitude of the present moment. So through the ebb and flow of life I am deciding today and everyday to accept myself as I am and continue to evolve and learn.
Solar Cells are usually strong, calm, conscious, practical, demanding, determined, persistent, persistent, compassionate and loyal. They like to carry out work with their hands, building something and seeing tangible and practical results from their efforts. Routine work does not bother them as long as there is a result and it serves a specific purpose.
Property and material values usually play a significant role in the life of Taurus. This is due to emotional insecurity, when it is impossible to see and touch objects that belong to them. The strongest need for possession and enjoyment of those feelings that arise in this case, lead to the fact that Taurus becomes either extremely productive or extremely selfish. To a lesser extent, Taurus take care of people as objects of their property – this leads to difficulties in relations.
Taurus – people who work a little slower than most, but always bring to the end whatever they start. This makes them reliable, decent, attentive and unwavering. People of this sign will be better to maintain what we started other than to do something themselves. They can be brought, but never pushed.
You need to make an incredible amount of effort to bring Taurus out of himself, but if their patience goes over the edge, they come to rage and no one is able to stop them. Just imagine an angry bull, and you will know what Taurus is capable of when he goes too far. Everyone knows Proverbs and sayings about an angry bull, and Taurus needs a lot of time to cool down. You'll know when things get out of their control. The best way to calm them down is to just leave them alone. Whatever happens Taurus needs time to learn and think about some things. Don't rush or pressure them.
Taurus is slow in changing their beliefs, but once changing it is very difficult to bring them back. People tend to feel safe surrounded by Taurus. In times of crisis, they tend to be cold-blooded and collected, with patience and the ability to develop practical solutions to the problem. Taurus hate to get sick and feel pain.
Taurus has a love of beauty and harmony, they can be very emotional, but along with this there is a strong fear of loss. Possessiveness, jealousy, laziness, stubbornness and extravagance are the feelings that usually accompany this fear, while it is absent if Taurus does not have a desire to possess something or someone. Taurus needs to learn to develop mental and spiritual abilities and let go of the desire to possess a person emotionally and physically. They must also discover true values and learn detachment. Taurus should be able to let go of people and material things.
New follower and love your blog already! I'm nvr one to ask questions but I love your take on things. Ive been dating a cancer sun, cap moon, Venus taurus (mercury also cancer and mars virgo) guy for about a month and theres such an intense "soul mate" connection between us on both ends (he talks about marriage already lolll cancer much?!) I was just wondering your thoughts on our compatibility me being a taurus sun and mars, Aquarius moon, venus in pisces and mercury aries. Thank you !!
Thank you! I am so glad:) Without looking at entirety of charts and going into too much detail, it does look pretty compatible. You have some really nice aspects between his Venus and moon and your sun and Mars. Sun conjunct Venus is really great for relationships. And your Venus is trine his sun and Mars which is really good too. Cancer and Taurus sun signs are great together, Taurus doesn’t mind the cancer prod, so they work well together. Cancer wants to love and Taurus loves being loved. You both have more detached moon signs and your Aquarius moon could want more emotional independence and the cancer sun and Mars could struggle with understanding that but luckily there are other placements to help balance that like his Virgo and Capricorn. I think allowing each other the space you each need when you need it, will be important but overall looks very compatible just based on those signs. To look for more of a karmic relationship check your synastry to see where each others nodes sit and Chiron especially in regard to Venus, sun and moon:) Sorry it took a little while to respond! 💛💛
sun in taurus makes a sextile to jupiter in cancer. sun and jupiter in sextile bring positivity and light to your beliefs around yourself. this could help you to create new beliefs that allow you to express yourself in helpful ways. it could also be that you see yourself in a light you haven't been able to see yourself before. whatever the case you finally embrace a part of yourself that needed to be embraced.
