Taurus the Bull is an earth sign in the fixed mode. The Sun is in Taurus from about April 20th through May 21st, the time of year after the first light of Aries has initiated growth, when spring is in full bloom and the earth is ripe for plowing and sowing seed.
Taurus is governed by the planet Venus, bringing in the qualities of sensuality and appreciation of good food and simple pleasures. The Taurus sensual nature is illustrated in Ferdinand the Bull, the famous children’s storybook of a gentle soul that preferred to lounge in the shade of a tree rather than fight in the arena like the other bulls.
The body parts that Taurus rules are the neck, shoulders and throat; often a Taurus astrological influence can grant a person with a beautiful speaking or singing voice.
As with all things Venus related, the lovely qualities of sensuality, enjoyment of pleasures, and a wish for peace and harmony can come along with laziness, overindulgence, and a certain superficiality. When provoked Taurus can have bull-like qualities of charging anger, and there can be a tendency toward bullying.
Taurus shares the Earth triad with Capricorn and Virgo, all signs that are oriented toward the material world, and the function and value of material things.
Virgo is the mutable earth sign and more active and oriented toward the movement and organization of matter.
Capricorn is the cardinal earth sign and uses matter to build a legacy to be passed on to future generations.
Taurus is a fixed earth sign with strong tendencies toward stability, slowness, tenacity, patience and endurance.
Taurus is opposed by Scorpio, a fixed water sign of great intensity. Both of these signs understand the nature of value and power- Taurus more with material objects and money, Scorpio with raw power and sexuality- and the fixed nature gives abundant strength and also stubbornness to these signs.
“In other times, when human beings were not yet so mechanized with this false civilization, cowboys led the cattle to the stable singing in a delightful and natural manner. The bull, the cow, the calf become touched by music; they correspond to the zodiacal sign of Taurus, the constellation of the Word, the constellation of music.
In the great Puranic allegory, the land that is persecuted by Prithu flees, transforming itself into a cow and taking refuge in Brahma. But this Brahma is the first person of the Hindu Trimurti. Vach (Vaca), the cow, is the second and Virah, the Divine Male, the calf, the Kabir, the Logos, is the third person. Brahma is the Father, the cow is the Divine Mother, the Chaos; the calf is the Kabir, the Logos. Father, Mother, and Son: these constitute the Puranic Trimurti. The Father is Wisdom, the Mother is Love, and the Son is the Logos, the Word.
The five-legged astral cow that Colonel Olcott believes to have seen physically in front of the hypogeum of Karli, the strange and mysterious cow that a certain young miner saw in the Andes as an exotic guardian of those treasures that the miners of his ranch sought, represents the Divine Mother, Rhea, Cybele, totally developed in the authentic Human Being, in the Self-realized Master.
Gautama the Buddha, or Gotama, literally means “the conductor of the cow.” Every cow herder, every conductor of the cow, can use the Jain fire of the cow to enter into the Jinn lands, palaces, temples, and cities. With the power of the Divine Mother, we can visit Agarthi, the Jinn cities of the subterranean world. Taurus invites us to reflection. Let us remember that Mercury stole the cows of the Sun.
Taurus governs the creative larynx. It is urgent for the Kundalini to flourish on our fecund lips made Verb; it is only in this manner that we can use the Jain fire in order to enter into the kingdom of the Jinn. In this period of Taurus, we must take light to our creative larynx with the purpose of preparing it for the advent of the fire.”
-Samael Aun Weor, Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology