TAURUS RISING

You're strong, stable, stubborn, practical, affectionate, non-aggressive, patient and long-suffering. As a rule, your reflexes are slow and your personality is passive, quiet and unassuming until you're pushed too far, and then there's trouble. Others must coax you instead of trying to force you. You're very possessive and fixed in your convictions, and if Mars or Venus is afflicted, you must overcome your jealousy. Your resources and possessions, whether people or finances, are very important to you. You have good financial sense and you're a good worker, but you can't be hurried. You may have difficulties with your studies due to the slow pace of your mind. Your love of good food can cause weight problems. You can be unreasonable and prejudiced when pushed too far. You usually have a short, thick neck and a square type body.

Decanates
Degrees	Planet	Traits
0-9.99	Venus	You're artistic, creative and very stubborn. Your sensual side needs conscious control. You can't be pushed but you can be led if others know the "ring in the bull's nose" is love.
10-19.99	Mercury	You have more intellectual agility and discrimination and you're more sociable and adaptable. You're able to go with the flow if Mercury is unafflicted or fixed signs aren't overly prominent.
20-29.99	Saturn	You're ambitious and conventional. Money and prestige are important to you and this materialism can make you stingy or miserly.

Taurus on the 1st House: You have great personal charm, good looks and a loving personality, but your slow, methodical reaction can create inertia, often seen as laziness by others. New ideas and experiences must be personally meaningful or you can't assimilate them. You express potential for power through financial dealings and the structuring of material resources. You love the good things in life and often create beauty in some form. You may appear to hear, but don't listen unless you want to. You put people and experiences into your pattern, but they may not fit as you want them to or as you think they should. You want to be liked, but you often retreat into yourself out of fear of rejection.

Gemini on the 2nd House: Your mind is on money and resources and you make money from original ideas and practical thinking with respect to material resources. You're not confined to one financial outlet. You relatives may help or hinder your financial growth. You're able to measure everything and everybody in terms of material success, which can both help and hinder you.

Cancer on the 3rd House: Your instinctive mind and feelings rule when you're dealing with relatives and your attitude towards your siblings is parental. You have a great imagination and memory, and you learn from listening rather than studying. You're extremely impressionable, absorbing the atmosphere around you with a psychic sense of what's going on. You're inclined to take those around you for granted and you may have difficulty accepting that things may not be as you felt they were. You tend to come and go quite a bit, often traveling in connection with business and financial affairs. There are many fluctuations in your communications.

Leo on the 4th House: You express power through your home and family, but your pride keeps you from admitting a lack of real love in relationships. Your home shows your creative ability and your status. You entertain guests lavishly, treating them as a member of your family with love and warmth. You have a strong inner faith in all you do.

Virgo on the 5th House: You want the benefits of affection without making a commitment and then wonder why love fails. You're a perfectionist in all social matters and tend to be over-critical in domestic matters, making loved ones ill at ease from constant scrutiny, yet you lack the ability to discipline your children. You need mental companionship and mental stimulation of a friendly argument. You hate change and can't be coerced into doing what you don't want to do. Your real power lies in careful, analytical thinking and close attention to detail.

Libra on the 6th House: You seek harmony and cooperation with co-workers, which often helps you succeed financially, but you can be bitterly antagonistic in non-harmonious working conditions. You have a keen sense of justice, treating co-workers as equals, and you'll fight for the underdog. Your work must remain varied and interesting and you're able to work effectively with others in matters of service.

Scorpio on the 7th House: You're attracted to power and status, which puts your loyalty to many tests. You put a great deal on energy into social relationships, but need regeneration and spiritual detachment where partners and the public are concerned. You must guard against jealousy, combativeness and possessiveness. You seek energetic partners who excel in creative expression and the power to accomplish goals. If Mars is afflicted, you have many arguments about sex and you're subject to health complications in an unsatisfactory marriage. You hate to give up and see failed relationships as a personal failure. It's not easy to change your powerful emotions.

Sagittarius on the 8th House: You're often involved in lots of legal activity regarding wills, insurance and joint finances and you often profit through inheritance. Your partners are usually financially stable and help you succeed. You have a strong interest in religion, philosophy and life after death. You have an inner faith that a better life can be built on higher principles. Sex is of great interest to you, but it stems from curiosity and a desire to experiment, which often leads to problems.

Capricorn on the 9th House: You have very traditional religious and philosophical beliefs and will accept new ones only if they show realizable, practical and concrete gain. You're skeptical in superconscious matters but you're willing to be shown. Although you respect intelligent understanding, you won't accept what you haven't personally experienced. Your humanitarian instincts are expressed through your work, but your outlook is restricted by materialism.

Aquarius on the 10th House: You openly express your aims and ambitions (although you may hide your motives). You're loyal to your ambitions and unswervingly faithful to those who help you. You like to be associated with prominent and stable, yet unusual and ingenious people. Your career often involves group work and you're eager to do publicly useful work that reflects the hopes of a group.

Pisces on the 11th House: Your friends give you inner nourishment and you're willing to sacrifice for your friends. Your generosity and willingness to help makes you loved by all. Your friends can be a source of disillusionment if they're not chosen wisely. What your friends say is important to you and if you feel slighted, you harbor deep-seated hurt and resentment. Your compassion and sympathy are expressed through generosity to your friends.

Aries on the 12th House: Your courage and decisiveness are your hidden support, but you can be impulsive and headstrong, causing your own undoing. You may appear open and frank, but your motives in life are hidden. You secretly initiate new activities in order to elude competitors. You have an active subconscious so your strong feelings are often suppressed, usually resulting in a feeling that you're misunderstood. You have a fiery temper when aroused and you can be destructive if anyone attacks your self-confidence. You're seldom inwardly defeated unless you give up, but this can lead to a tendency to hold grudges. You're unable to see that your problems are brought on by yourself.