Whatever your lifestyle—at home, working, or juggling lots of duties—everybody needs a goal. Challenges are important, too, although undoubtedly there are times when you wish they’d vanish. Approach these as offering you the potential to celebrate achievements, major and minor, and you will be amazed how much you learn from each.
Practical decisions bring pleasure, while helping others brings a more lasting joy
The theme for your birthday is the joy of order. As a Taurus and an earth sign, you appreciate the beauty of life in so many ways. You appreciate the beauty of nature, but also the beauty of kind gestures and beautiful objects. They don’t necessarily need to be valuable, but simply something that brings joy to your heart. At the same time, you also need for your own life to be in order.
Obviously, it is nice if what’s around you is in order, but the pace of events and the role those around you play are also important. Yet, things don’t always work out as you expect. When you’re so busy it is impossible to be organized, you will still try to be orderly. However, at times, that temporary chaos becomes a permanent variety of disarray.
Bizarrely, often that disarray can lead to a fresh viewpoint on elements of your life you hadn’t realized need to change or, alternatively, introduce new activities or objectives that hadn’t previously crossed your mind, possibly because you were so focused on what you were already doing. The key is to balance your pleasure in life’s beauty, but also to recognize that, occasionally, what seem to be unsettling changes are actually breakthroughs—changes that won’t just be useful, but will add to your life in ways that you couldn’t possibly have conceived of when those events first arose.
Hoping for relaxation, order, and joy with others is wonderful. It’s just that this may means something entirely different to them than to you. Discuss it? Maybe. But that, too, can create confusion. The solution? Recognize their views are, and always will be, different to yours. Find a middle ground, one that holds the promise of joyous times together.
It is easy to blame stress—from others or from things that aren’t working—for undermining your enthusiasm for life. True, challenges can be overwhelming. The solution isn’t battling them but simply stopping for a moment, taking a deep breath, and being still. It is by far the best strategy.
Whatever your lifestyle—at home, working, or juggling lots of duties—everybody needs a goal. Challenges are important, too, although undoubtedly there are times when you wish they’d vanish. Approach these as offering you the potential to celebrate achievements, major and minor, and you will be amazed how much you learn from each.
Tensions with loved ones or close friends aren’t easy. They’ve been behaving oddly but made no explanation, so you assume they’d rather keep things to themselves. Perhaps. Yet it is just as likely they don’t realize how much certain concerns have altered their behavior. A frank discussion will do wonders.
Taurus: APRIL 19 – MAY 19
Ruler: Venus
Symbol: The Bull
Element: Earth
Flower: Orchid
Sensuality and practicality are fundamental to you as a Taurus, the first of the earth signs. While its ruling planet, Venus, accents life’s pleasures, it’s also about assets, which means you are a gracious individual who lives both well and wisely. That’s reflected in your flower, the orchid, and your aromatic spices—cloves and sorrel. Your tree is crab apple, while your stones reflect Venus’s pastel shades in both jade and emerald.
