The Meaning of Venus in Taurus

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we are going to take a look at the meaning of Venus in the sign of Taurus. In order to do this, I am going to rewind an old episode that I made for my Planets in Profile Series on Venus in Taurus, which I hope you guys will enjoy. I also want to expose people to the series because this spring, I will be getting into the next part of this series with a look at the moon through the 12 signs. We do Planets in Profile the moon through the 12 signs for it on Venus, Mercury, and Mars. So Venus is in Taurus right now and is going to be conjoining Uranus and Taurus, so we'll be looking at that tomorrow. But for today, I just wanted to do a little deep dive on the meaning of Venus in the sign in one of her own home signs of Taurus. So that is what we are doing today.

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Hi everybody, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and I'm sitting down to do another episode of planets and profile. Now in the next two episodes, I'm making I'm catching up actually with Venus because I've gotten behind on Venus's movements. She went through Taurus, and now she's in Gemini. This is spring 2019. And so, I'm catching up on those two, but you can listen to this anytime because the Planets in Profile Series is really meant to help you, as a student of astrology, interpret the meaning of Venus and Mars. I also do some coverage of Mars as we're going through the Mars going through the signs as well. And it's meant to help give you some ability to interpret the planets in your birth chart a little bit better.

So Venus and Taurus, we just had this; this pass-through was my first house. So that's why I was MIA a little bit at a nice Venus in Taurus. A lot of very nice vacations, but I had to travel for work a couple of times, and it was really pretty relaxing for the most part. And yeah, I always love it when Venus is in my first house. Taurus rising. Okay, so we're going to talk about what I have for this one; I chose the endless harmony photo from the Beach Boys because of Brian Wilson, Venus in Taurus.

So Venus in the sign of Taurus is in her home sign, this is Venus's happy sign, also a masculine sign. So he is always happy. He is also happy in Libra, you could say. But regardless, Venus in Taurus is very happy because this is Venus's home sign; it's the feminine sign of Venus. It's a cool, dry, feminine solid earth sign. So it's cool and dry. That's the quality feminine or Yin. Solid meaning it's less movable; it's more sort of durable and a stable sign. And that has a lot to do with that; really, you could interpret that sort of psychologically in a birth chart. But it also has a lot to do with the quality; you might save the karma associated with whatever planets and topics are involved with the house of Taurus and the chart using whole sign houses. Anyway.

What we say about a planet when it's in its home sign is this. Traditionally speaking, we say the planet is able to accommodate or take care of its own needs or desires and its own significations; it's able to affect them easily. So, for example, we've taken Venus through a lot of other signs in this series, and whenever Venus is in another sign, we've said that she's like a house guest. Venus says I'd like this or I'd like that. Whatever is natural to Venus, beauty, love, art, women, friendships, harmony, sensuality, sex, you know, sexuality. These are the things that Venus wants, and then it's up to Venus's host to fulfill those needs.

So when Venus is in Gemini, it's going to be mercurial things right, so Mercury Hermes will provide the content on some level For Venus, but when Venus is in either Libra or Taurus, it's as though Venus is able to do more purely Venusian things without the added filter of another planet being involved. What that means is, generally speaking, that you will see the individual embodying Venusian qualities in a way that is stronger and more distinct. So it's kind of boring in a way. It's just like saying, well, it's just Venus, Venus in every other case, you're sort of combining Venus with another planet. But in this case, you're just sort of saying, Venus Venus. So you know, it's sort of quintessentially Venusian, and then the major qualifying thing becomes the difference between, say, Libra and Taurus.

What is the major way that Venus acts or behaves when Venus is in Taurus compared to Libra, which is Venus's feminine sign. So Taurus is the feminine. I said I saw a typo in my little PDF here says Taurus is the feminine sign of Taurus. That's interesting. So Taurus is the feminine sign of Venus and yet is located on the young half of the solar year, which is to say that between the spring equinox and the Fall Equinox, between zero Aries and zero Libra, there is more sunlight in a 24 hour day in the northern hemisphere, than darkness. And so this is the yang half of the zodiac. Now, remember, this is all archetypal and symbolic; this is not it; you can use this language regardless of where you live. It doesn't have to be, you know, the middle of spring for a planet to be in Taurus, right. And yet, it will still embody in some ways some of the qualities that are archetypal associated with spring.

So, at any rate, similarly, for example, you don't have to be born during the middle of spring to be a Taurus and still have the symbolism of Taurus really apply to you if you're born in the southern hemisphere during tourist season. At any rate, okay, so I guess there's always a big debate that follows that. So what is it that is unique about Taurus, though, you can go back and listen to me talk about the meaning of the Sun in Taurus and get a deeper take on that or Mars and Taurus that talk.

Taurus is a sign that, although is more passive, more receptive, more, in some ways inert, because it's an earth sign, and it's more of a yin sign. This is still taking place in the middle of spring as the light is gaining and growing. So sometimes you'll hear people say the Taureans are possessive. This is actually a big part of what defines the Taureans' mystique. That Taureans are actually very natural and have incredibly powerful urges and appetites, desires and even lust, and almost sometimes even a blood lust. It's so intense. But in yet, it's more receptive, it sort of is, it's going to be less like aggressive and how it goes about getting it. It's more about the sort of, you know, being productive and trying to gather and gather resources or desired things, and then to hold them to keep them to allow them to come in and build the power, the mojo, and the feeling of greatness or bigness.

So there's a tremendous, almost like, again, like almost a lusty quality to Taurus that slips beneath the radar a lot of the times because you don't see how hard sometimes Taureans are working to maintain what they have or to hold or possess what they have, and they make it look easy and simple. But on the other hand, of course, Taurus is related in some ways to the naturalness and ease of the animal body, as Steven Forrest likes to say. It's another astrologer that I like.

Taurus can be about simplicity, beauty, and the natural world, or it can be about this kind of possessiveness and intense desire, desiring lust and equality. And we see this in a variety of ways. For example, celebrities with Venus and Taurus are well-known historical personalities, Adolf Hitler, right, someone who was a collector and hoarder in some ways of artwork, but also, you know, vandalize or destroyer and, you know, thief and sort of possessor during World War Two, so that the lust quality is there. And there's a lot more that can be said about him, but I don't want to spend too much time on Hitler.

So how about Diana, Princess of Wales, sort of a classic Princess Torian kind of beauty. And I won't say too much about any of these today, but because I'm trying to catch up with this series. Prince was someone who was incredibly fashionable and had this incredible artistic aesthetic taste but also self-described sometimes as intensely possessive and lustful. And, of course, a huge portion of his career is defined by a battle for the rights to possess ownership of his own music.

Marlon Brando, you know, apparently was, you know, an incredibly, you know, he's he has this way of looking really simple, you know, and looking like, I'm laid back, I'm solid, I'm beautiful, I'm easy going so that just that kind of ease that he exuded was apparently also intensely controlling. So, you know, just some of the juxtapositions. Paul McCartney, the same thing makes his musicianship look amazingly easy, and the same thing had a huge level of artistic sensibility that was also at times very rigid, controlling, and also, sometimes, had an appetite for beautiful things that was kind of out of control.

Now, this is, you know, again, you'll hear different people say different things about some of these personalities. So I'm just reporting on what I've read and gathered while studying these particular people for this slideshow. So, Bono, there is another one, you know, just in some ways, an artistic genius and workaholic. You know, just always driven to create art and has that appearance of cool. I'm cool. It's easy. All right, that's, but there's a lot more than meets the eye underneath the surface.

Melania Trump, there's another, you know, and then going into other personalities that are darker again, like Jeffrey Dahmer. I know that's a really dark one. But there's the same thing. He was a hoarder. Had this kind of hoarding mentality and also had this intense lust that was a part of his kind of psychopathic qualities. Ella Fitzgerald, Boy George, and a couple more artists and musicians. And both, of course, had, you know, extraordinary artistic talent and interesting style, especially, you know, Boy George was really noted for his style. John Wayne, there again, is that classic, easy, I'm got this, you know, incredibly, also incredibly controlling and sometimes again, very intensely does desirous and sometimes even impatient quality.

It's always important to understand whether the sign is coming on the Yin or Yang half of the year because Taurus, even though it's a feminine sign, picks up on the aspirational journey of the Sun heading upward and the season of spring, which is, you know, by nature, it's about procreation and desire. Also, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, endless harmony, right? Brian Wilson is someone who had an incredibly hard time controlling his appetite's desires, was incredibly obsessive as a musician, so much so that he sort of lost his mind, and yet was also this like artistic, musical harmony genius.

So there's not anything that's necessarily bad about Venus and Taurus. I don't mean to make it sound as though every Venus in Taurus has this underlying, you know, intense problem. But I'm trying to highlight the way that Venus does in Taurus does have this duality that's not always apparent. Because otherwise, well, you can in some ways, all you end up really saying is like nice, stable, beautiful, classic beauty, you know, artistic like, sensual, earthy, and there's more, you know, a little bit more to it than that. So, but you know, a general thing to interpret, if you have Venus in your birth chart in Taurus, is just that there will be natural ease with Venusian things, and with there will also be a kind of fixed quality, stable quality security, but also sometimes the possessiveness and the and the sort of, like greedy possessiveness that comes along with ambition and sort of desiring to hold.

One way of thinking about it is that the bowl, right the bowl, as well as the calf, this is an image in some ways, you know, that we talked about as a holy animal in India, it's holy, it's worshipped, but also, you know, it's slaughtered and sacrifice to appease the gods to get power to get something. So there's this thing about cows and bulls and desire and sacrifice and death and also trying to obtain things. And that goes back a long way. Cows and bulls, they are providers, but they represent something very natural and sort of docile On beautiful and feels like it's very easy and slow, and you know, kind of sensual. But then there's this you know, it's a really complicated relationship that we have to that to that as human beings because we can't help but be also driven by our appetites and by making the mistake of thinking that satisfying our senses 24/7 brings happiness.

So, at any rate, that's a bit about Venus and Taurus I hope you've enjoyed. I will be back shortly with Venus in Gemini will be caught up, I think. Okay, take care.