Taurus: My Lived Experience

Dear Taurus, I apologies for writing your letter so late. It has taken me a long while to get here and even now I am not certain I will do you justice. The simplistic and steady nature you possess is understated and underrated. I search to understand who you are to find understanding in my own natal chart (the blueprint of who I am laid down at the moment of my birth). I want to complicate you because that is who I am! You are “I Have” and you have faith in yourself to know you have all you ever need, and you have been given the skills to obtain what you do not. You are grounded in the material world, and you are the embodiment of the spirit that was birthed in the time of Aries.

I have searched for understanding of your nature, especially as it opposes who I am and where I draw vitality and life from. I sat with you and contemplated (even unknowingly at times). I guess I have been learning to appreciate the peace and silence that comes with your season. I am naturally drawn to be the opposite with an inbuilt need to fill any silence I find, although in the last few years I have been learning to master the skill of listening. To find this peace I first had to learn the silence. This seemed to be pressed on me even without my awareness. During your time I have retreated even harder into my own world. Even further into my own mind.

I have discovered that you are simplicity. You are what you say you are. For someone who likes to complicate life and search for hidden meanings this has been a hard thing for me to accept. Someone who is what they say they are. Someone who knows peace comes from embracing silence. A silence that allows our inner voice to surface. A voice that wants us to care for ourselves and heed the advice of our bodies.

Aries was the spirit incarnate. It was the rush to meet life and to live as brashly and rashly as possible, living life at full throttle finally knowing that the spirit had arrived. The season is a headlong rush. You are the answer and counter point to this. You are the silence and the peace that stops to tend and embody. For some of us who like to complicate life you are a breath of fresh air and the permission to stop and smell the roses. To be like your avatar the bull and enjoy the sunshine in the paddock. Some think bulls are angry and aggressive, which they can be when provoked, but mostly they stand in the sun enjoying the peace of life.

I went for a walk yesterday and I realized I had rams and sheep on one side and on the other side of my house and across the road bulls and cows live in the paddocks. I had to laugh at the irony I had never seen before. I am surrounded by the first two signs of astrology. As I watch them you get a feel for the character of Aries and Taurus. The bulls are big beasts, I watch them have dirt baths, enjoy the sunshine, cool off in the dam on hot days. Mostly they are quiet and curious. They are steady of nature and not as flighty as their neighbors the sheep across the road. Lambing time here is coming to an end with only the last few stragglers left to arrive. They are boisterous and lively. Cows seem steadier and statelier in nature, more solid, more grounded in who they are.

Dear Taurus, you are patient, and I appreciate the space and peace you have given me. I have sat in silence with you for nearly the whole of your season. It is in this space, in the peace and quiet, that you grant me the time I need to tend to my own soul. It is in this way that I get to contemplate on who you are and find what you gift life. I know the next season will be such a whirl wind of action for my mind, and for me a busy mind is my natural state, I have truly enjoyed having the quiet time that you encourage. I feel the pull of Gemini already, it is awakening me to embrace my curiosity, but this letter is for another time.

It has been a slow and steady pace that you set as I watched the world from my window. I see your power has helped the trees along to change and shed even more leaves. You continue what Aries has started. I have watched the trees’ buds appear as leaves fall and I appreciate the power it must take to have the tree ready for next spring and I can only imagine that on the other side of the world you continue to awaken the world to a new life. You have had your work cut out for you this year. Summer seems disinterested in changing into autumn. It is only in the last 24 hours I feel a pull to light a fire and warm our house. Summers warmth has stayed longer than usual.

I feel the quietness and steadiness of your innate nature encouraging me to be prepared for the start of a new month and a new archetypal behavior. It is your steady state and power that I am learning what I possess in life to navigate it. I have pondered deeply on what I want to work towards this year. You are helping me to shape my goals.

I have been listening to my body and its gentle push to enjoy quiet walks in nature, to embody your power. I also appreciated my chanting practice, and it has brought me so much peace this month. The repetition of doing the same thing over and over is soothing. Having this one touch stone habit helps to stabilize myself. Although I wonder why my hands were stiff and unyielding in the mudras this month? Maybe this too is a reflection of your nature! In all you have been the way to solidify and consolidate, the quietness helps to reconnect with my voice. A time to ponder before I share. It makes sense now as I look back over the last month. I have been quiet not published or written because I search for my silence and in the silence my voice. I search for what I want and in return I have learned what I have.

Your time is about response not acting rashly. It is not about taking risks but being comfortable with who I am and what I have. Being grateful for what I have; even when it looks different to what I originally thought life would be. During the time of Taurus, I found I could get lost thinking of all that is missing in my life that I forgot to remember what is already mine. It is in coveting what is not ours that we live in the lower vibration of your season. You encourage us to trust in what we already own, not looking at what we do not possess. At your lower end it is easy to hoard, having the need to possess more and more material possessions losing faith in trusting what we are born with. At the higher end you ask for trust that you will always have what you need to survive. Taurus is knowing you were born to have and not to want (wanting and desiring you leave to the sign opposite you, Scorpio). You possess the power and peace to know you were born with all you could ever need in this life.

I thank you for my time with you and I will see you next year.

Yours in peace, grace, and gratitude

Rebecca

Dear Soul Wisdom

PS I am just seeing that I have always had all that I need to face what is hidden in my life as you rule over my 12th house. You encourage me to trust in myself and believe in what I have, and I have what it takes to succeed.