Upon understanding (finally) how horoscopes work, I seriously do wonder if it is worth reading one if you don't know your rising sign/degrees of it in order to analyze yours. How beneficial is it to read your sun sign when the horoscopes are written based off of assuming your sun sign is in the first house of your chart, when it isn't? If you're born at dawn, awesome, but for everyone else, the placements and predictions are just gonna be off. I suspect the professionals say "read your sun sign as well as your rising" (and/or moon, why?) just because more people are likely to know their sun sign.
Now, being a born-at-dusk person, I just read the opposite sign's horoscopes for actual use info. I read my sun sign, but mostly just to see how opposite it's coming out from my rising.
All of that said, I read Michael Lutin's long blurb for Taurus in May and...wow. I am kind of scarily relating to it even though I have Uranus going through my 12th and Pluto in my 3rd instead. And yet also thinking, "I'm not that bad..."
Life gets crazy sometimes, doesn't it? Unless you are over eighty years old, you have never before experienced the transit of Uranus through your solar twelfth house and Pluto through your ninth. And it's wild. You go along thinking you've set everything up nicely. It all appears to be solid and stable, and as far as you're concerned, you could go marching along toward forever, juggling business and family, keeping your little boat from taking on water. Then, all of a sudden, you realize you have been setting yourself up for a blow.
Out of the blue everything changes. Only thing is, it wasn't at all sudden. It wasn't at all a bolt of lightning that struck you out of nowhere. The changes you are currently being exposed to have been long in coming. Fortunately, Jupiter passage the first half of 2011 have given you a haven of refuge and some much needed time to recoup, refresh yourself, and figure out what the hell you are going to do with the rest of your life.
Well, I'm trying. But I still have no idea. I didn't get the job I applied for, which kind of makes me think I'm shot for applying for anything else and I'm not seeing other options about to try for.
And figure it out you will. Although it does irritate you to accept the fact that your previous way of life will not ever be the same, in your private and lucid moments even you would have to admit that it was getting pretty old. And it's not that you abhor change just because you are a Taurus. Lots of Tauruses move from place to place, change jobs or professions, and shift life styles, those are the changes THEY themselves make. It bugs them to receive a sucker punch from life. And nothing in this world hurts more than to find that the people they trusted and supported have gone and royally screwed them.
I can't argue with that paragraph.
Actually this is all a blessing in disguise. Hard to see, though. Definitely sometimes really difficult to grasp it. The journey on which you are setting out will turn out to be the most enriching and rewarding of your whole, entire life. Don't worry- it doesn't mean homeless and starving on the streets of Calcutta. In fact, by mid-month when Venus and Mars return to your sign, you'll feel a lot stronger and more in control and the whole thing won't seem dire at all. What does it all mean? That's exactly the trip you are going on. You are actually being liberated from the tyranny of all the parental, school, church, government and social conditioning that has told you what is right for you.
It's a brand new life style. It's unusual. It's a role against type. It's a total departure. It's an experiment. It's an exploration into the unknown. It's not about career or fame. It is the search for your place in the Universe, and to do it, you have to abandon so many of your beliefs about who you were supposed to be.
Eek.
PROFESSIONALLY
No sane business person would ever be ecstatic to hear that their life is no longer about business. No actor likes to be told that their acting “career” is over. It is important for you to understand that this is not the case. It is simply that your focus is shifting away from the pursuit of traditional goals toward achieving a sense of personal fulfillment. That certainly does not mean that you have to give up your wishes for a sense of accomplishment and contribution in the world. It's just that you want something more out of life than the usual rewards that are held out in front of us to make us perform like a bunch of seals balancing a ball on our noses so somebody could throw them one lousy fish. There comes a moment in your life, if you're lucky enough, to be moved off the track you were sitting on and not budging. While it is disruptive, it may take years to realize that a train was coming down that track, and that it was Providence that came along and gave you the chance to do something meaningful and really live- maybe for the first time.
That's what I'm afraid of: getting booted off the track forcefully (because I couldn't get myself off of it to go elsewhere before the boot comes) and then STILL HAVING NO IDEA.
PERSONALLY
Even when the whole world is falling apart. Nations rise up against their leaders. Global economic crises may jeopardize everyone's long-held illusions about their future security, but here's what is great. People still fall in love. Tauruses now have a desire to make a difference in the world and seek a better life for themselves and their families-off the angle, out of the fray, away from the rat race we are all programmed to run in our whole lives. With the asteroid Juno going direct this month in your solar fifth house, the importance of love and children rises up to warm your heart and show you the power of intimacy, especially if there is a Virgo person in your life. What's that? You're not possessive? You? You're not a jealous type? You? You're not competitive in love? You? Oh, that's really funny.
...okay, that part isn't relevant to me. Oh well.
Meanwhile, the week in review for Scorpio is...
Stress? Forget it. That is utterly unavoidable now. Stress is exactly what happens when the Full Moon hits you in the eye like a big pizza pie. Sometimes it’s amore. More often, however, at other moments the energy can sock it to you with just a miserable head cold that heaves you into bed till it’s all over. This is a week that culminates all the plans, hopes, wishes, passions, talents, tensions and control battles you’ve been dealing with for weeks. Of course, communication can straighten it all out. Silence usually means war.
I wouldn't go with stress so much as "emotional hangover" and "not much to do" and "wah, I suck." It's the ANTI-culmination of everything I've been dealing with for weeks. It's the giant fizzle. No wonder I spent Sunday on my couch vegetating.
