– lord (or lady) of the manor. They love to entertain lavishly, to make others feel secure in their home and to encourage others to derive the same sense of satisfaction as they do from it. If you are invited for dinner at the home of a Taurus you can expect the best food and best entertainment. Be prepared for a tour of the house and expect to see your Taurus friend exhibit a lot of pride and satisfaction in his or her possessions.
Taurus people like children but they are usually strict with them. The reason for this is they tend to treat their children – as they do most things in life – as their possessions. The positive side to this is that their children will be well cared for and well supervised. They will get every material thing they need to grow up properly. On the down side, Taurus can get too repressive with their children. If a child dares to upset the daily routine – which Taurus loves to follow – he or she will have a problem with a Taurus parent.
Horoscope for 2019
Major Trends
Last year Uranus, the planet of sudden revolutionary change, made a brief foray into your sign and then retreated. It was a quick foreshadowing of what was to come. Those of you born early in the sign of Taurus felt it most strongly (those born from April 20 to April 24). This year, on March 7, Uranus enters your sign and will stay for the next seven years or so. All of you will be affected eventually, but again, those of you born early in the sign will feel it strongest. Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a wild ride for the next seven years! Change will be the order of the day. Your lesson will be how to handle (and be comfortable with) sudden change and personal instability. Not so easy for a Taurus.
You are coming out of an excellent love and social year. This year, because of Uranus in your sign, these relationships will get tested.
Jupiter will spend almost the whole year (until December 3) in your 8th house of regeneration. This indicates 2019 will be a sexually active kind of year and a year where projects involving personal transformation and reinvention go well.
Both Saturn and Pluto spend the year in your 9th house of religion, philosophy and higher education. This will impact foreign travel as well, and so this is not an especially great year for foreign travel – go only if you must. College students will have to work harder and be more disciplined in their studies. There will be three eclipses in your 9th house in the coming year, signalling much change and disruption in these areas. Religious and philosophical beliefs will get tested – reality checked. Some will have to be tossed out; some will get revised.
Neptune has been in your 11th house for many years now, and remains here all this year too. This transit shows you’re attracting spiritual friends, and are perhaps involved in spiritual or charitable groups.
The career should be very successful this year. It seems important to you – more important than mere money. Many happy career opportunities will come to you. There are more details on this later.
Your most important interests in the year ahead will be spirituality (until March 7); the body and image (from March 7 onwards); sex, death and rebirth, personal transformation and reinvention (until December 3); religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel; and friends, groups and group activities.
Your paths of greatest fulfilment this year will be communication and intellectual interests; sex, death and rebirth, personal transformation and reinvention (until December 3); and religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel (after December 3).
Health
(Please note that this is an astrological perspective on health and not a medical one. In days of yore there was no difference, both of these perspectives were identical. But now there could be quite a difference. For a medical perspective, please consult your doctor or health practitioner.)
There’s very good news on the health front this year. There are no long-term planets in stressful alignment with you, so the health will be good. Sure, there will be periods in the year where health is less easy than usual, because of the transits of the short-term planets. However, these are temporary and not trends for the year. When they pass your naturally good health and energy return.
Uranus will be in your sign from March 7 onwards this year. This doesn’t show health problems per se, but there will be a tendency to test the limits of the body, to be experimental with the body. If this is done unthinkingly it can lead to injury. So, while it is good to test the body’s limits (we often set arbitrary limits that are not warranted), it should be done in a safe, supervised way. Martial arts, yoga and tai chi are all safe ways to experiment and to push your body.
Your empty 6th house is another positive health signal. It shows that you’re not paying too much attention here. You sort of take good health for granted, and you don’t need to focus overly much here.
Because the aspects are so good and there is more cosmic energy available to you, many of you with pre-existing conditions should notice improvements.
Good though your health is, you can make it even better. Give special attention to the following – the more vulnerable areas for Taurus (the reflexology points are shown in the chart above):
Important foot reflexology points for the year ahead
Try to massage all of the foot on a regular basis – the top of the foot as well as the bottom – but pay extra attention to the points highlighted on the chart. When you massage, be aware of ‘sore spots’ as these need special attention. It’s also a good idea to massage the ankles and below them.
The neck and throat are always important areas for Taurus. Regular neck massage should be part of your regular health regime. Tension tends to collect in the neck and needs to be released (craniosacral therapy is excellent for this).
The hips and kidneys. These areas are also always important for Taurus. Regular hip massage will be very beneficial; this will not only strengthen the hips and kidneys but the lower back as well. A herbal kidney cleanse every now and then (if you feel under the weather) might be a good idea too.
Venus serves double duty in your Horoscope. She is both the ruler of your Horoscope and of your 6th health house. The ruler of your Horoscope can be compared to your ‘personal trainer’, while the ruler of your 6th house can be compared to your personal physician. Their roles are similar but distinct. The personal trainer is more concerned with cosmetic issues – the physique and personal appearance. The personal physician is concerned with overall health. The fact that the same planet serves both functions shows that for you, good health also means ‘looking good’. It shows that the state of your health (more than hosts of lotions and potions) determines the physical appearance. Stay healthy, Taurus, and you will look good.
Venus, as our regular readers know, is a fast-moving planet, and in any given year she will move through all the sectors of your chart. This year, however, she will move even faster than usual, going through some sectors twice. So there are going to be many short-term health trends, depending on where she is and the aspects she receives. These are best covered in the monthly reports.
Home and Family
Your 4th house of home and family is not a house of power this year. This tends to the status quo: you seem basically content with things as they are and have no need to make major changes.
Yet, in spite of this, there will be changes and disruptions. Every year there are two solar eclipses which impact on home and family (because the Sun is the ruler of your 4th house). This year – highly unusually – there will be three. Not only that, but there is a lunar eclipse on January 21 that occurs in your 4th house, bringing more disturbance. So there will be dramas in the family and in the lives of family members. Sometimes repairs are needed to the home – major ones. We will deal with this more fully in the monthly reports.
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