{"id":37432,"date":"2011-04-26T00:53:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=37432"},"modified":"2011-04-26T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:50:44","slug":"taurus-as-the-11th-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/taurus-as-the-11th-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Taurus as the 11th house?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In modern psychological astrology, we think of Taurus as the sign of values. It’s about having and possessing, but when you translate that into the language of thought, decision and self-understanding, we get a process of evaluating what is important. The result of those evaluations are our values<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The symbol of Taurus is a cow, or a bull. For now, let’s take the cow aspect. Up until recently, the cow was the poverty line. If you had one, you had dependable food; if you didn’t, you stood a good chance of starving. Notably, a cow wasn’t something you just slaughtered and ate; it was a living creature that had to be taken care of — that is to say, valued. Valuing something or someone is an active process, and it calls for maturity and constant attention.<\/p>\n

We are definitely in a values crisis in our culture. Besides being raised to be spoiled kids who can always get a new one, we’re really seeing this come home to roost in big ways — the proposed ripoff of Social Security and Medicare come to mind. Poke around the Internet and check out what’s going on with that story; it’s truly outrageous, that something that we have paid for all our working lives, from the first hour we collected a paycheck, is being derisively being called an “entitlement” and we’re being told that it’s not going to be there. The plan? “Privatize” it, which means, take what working people have earned and saved, and give it to Wall Street and insurance companies.<\/p>\n

I could go on about this, but for the moment, let’s stick to the astrology, which is connected to this question of the public wealth, and the public good; our collective wealth<\/em> as revealed in an issue like Social Security. <\/p>\n

In modern astrology, we associate the 2nd house with Taurus, the second sign. It’s true that there are associations, but in recent years, a document has come to the attention of astrologers called the Thema Mundi. I’ve written about it before<\/a>. It’s an ancient Babylonian ‘chart of the world’ that is really a teaching device. It’s been available for a while, but with the current revival of ancient astrology, more people are aware of its existence (they just don’t know what to do with it, for the most part).<\/p>\n

Now, in this Thema Mundi chart, Cancer is the ascendant. That is a clue that the 1st house is associated not with Aries (as we usually think of it) but with Cancer. And if that is the case, then Taurus comes up in the 11th house — the house of the public, and with Taurus there, it’s associated with the public<\/em> wealth and shared<\/em> resources. We think of Taurus as being this private, personal kind of sign, associated with the 2nd, this personal, private kind of house.<\/p>\n

Yet it would seem precisely the opposite is true. Taurus and all that it represents are very much about public matters, the common good, and values that are shared not in that ‘between me and you’ kind of way, but among all of us here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In modern psychological astrology, we think of Taurus as the sign of values. It’s about having and possessing, but when you translate that into the language of thought, decision and self-understanding, we get a process of evaluating what is important. The result of those evaluations are our values. The symbol of Taurus is a cow, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}