Sun Enters Taurus
Sun Enters Taurus
19th PDT 12:56 PM / 20th AEST 5:56 AM
Taurus’ association with fertility and life goes deep into cosmological myths associated with its astronomical makeup. Within the Taurus constellation, there are two major meteor showers: the Taurids, and the Beta. The Taurids peak in November and the Beta meteor shower is visible in June/July. Within the Taurus constellation also lives the Pleiades, the seven sister star cluster whose myth spans across all cultures and is one of the oldest stories known to humankind. In Greek mythology, Zeus is typically associated with Taurus, being the most handsome of the bulls, he caught the eye of Princess Europa, whisking her away to the island of Crete where he lavished her with presents. The luxurious and material iconography of the bull can be found in its many myths which sends an ode to unbridled desire.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is put up against the Bull of Heaven who was sent by the goddess Ishtar because he had rejected her advances. Two myths of love and passion are quite appropriate for the Venus-ruled sign, in that the time when the Sun enters the Bull, all of our earthly yearnings become almost too substantial to bear that we must consider what comes of our animal instincts when we want what we can’t have.
As the Sun enters the first degrees of Taurus, it meets with a T square between Pluto and Mars, pitting our directive will between personal competitive ambitions and the collective’s needs. The notion of ownership and belonging trends upwards when the Sun highlights the bull’s possessive equalities. Whether to take pride in our earthly pleasures or to reject them has been a continual, oscillating moral dilemma — one that has become an individual right more so than a collective expectation. Taurus season spans through to May 20/21 and during this time, sink into the corporeal and engage with the notion that anyone and anything can take on the form of a beloved.
Written by Evelyn Zuel
