Taurus is linked to the material and the spiritual planes, and must take both into consideration. Venus ruled Taurus finds security and meaning in the beauty of the natural world, but also in the beauty of ideas, so long as the ideas relate to Taurus' secret heart: a longing to live life in the Garden of Eden. Most Taurus' will love gardening and will plant something, no matter how small the earthy patch. Beautifully sensual, Taureans can be artistically gifted with a talent for working with primary colors, decorating, cooking, music and painting.
Taureans generally create beautiful homes, lush palaces where one can recline, dine, and sample the fruit of the vine. If working on a sparse budget, Taureans can turn a dime into a dollar everytime. No Taurean is really so proud that he or she won't visit a thrift store. With talents in clothing design and sewing, a Taurean can turn a cast-off item into haute couture.
The creative lesson of "use of the material" is Taurus' lesson in patience and stablility. After Aries the Ram roars in a new spring, Taurus tones and disciplines that fiery energy so that fecund seed scattered by the Ram have time in lush earth to sprout. Thus, patient and plodding Taurus turns the invisible into the visible through methodical planning and nurturance.
Patient and plodding? Methodical? Boring? NOT! Think of Barbra Streisand. She is a lesson in patience par excellence! At the beginning of her career she slept in stairwells and on friend's couches long before she was discovered. She braved inclimate New York City weather in less than seasonal clothing. Yet, with her patience, plodding and methodical approach, Barbra has become a multi-millionaire and an international star. Her Mailbu residence is a garden of eden; a sanctuary where Barbra can create, dream, entertain, and escape the pressures of stardom.
The other side of this earthy paradise is Taurus' earthbound obstinacy (Taurus is "fixed" earth) and inability to get its horns out of the roots of material life and upward toward release. There can be a driving need to hold on to things as if things themselves were a kind of salvation. Taurus, so practical and patient, can often miss the larger lessons presented. The inability to let go has its basis in feelings of inferiority coupled with financial insecurity. Money represents security and Taureans, no matter how inwardly stable, need material goods to feel valuable and secure. Taurus' polar opposite is Scorpio, the intense fixed water sign ruled by Pluto. When Taurus gazes into the mirror of its polar opposite, it must face lessons of sharing, giving, sexuality, and learn how to let go and accept irrevocable change. All earthly domains and beings eventually die, and the truth of life is that there is little we can control or hang onto. Once Taurus learns to let go of his/her tight grasp on the material to consider Scorpio's powerful Plutonic loosening of "permanence," the Taurean faces liberation and can thus integrate its full nature.