The Astrology of Taurus Season & Venus Retrograde: Here's Your Horoscope
We’ve just had the new moon in Taurus — it's Taurus season and Venus, the ruler of Taurus, will go Retrograde soon. We are learning how to slow down, ground, and have the patience to allow the seeds we have planted, and are currently planting, to grow.
Just like plants budding up through the crevices of a concrete lot, the seeds we plant now will still grow despite the conditions around us. Yet, there are actions we can take to pay attention as we nurture these seeds. Tilling and fertilizing the soil (naturally, of course), checking on them, and even talking to them is shown to help plants grow. The most important part of the process, however, includes trust and patience that the seeds will sprout in due time.
Let’s get into sign-specific astrology to help guide you through this Taurus season.
Taurus and Taurus Rising
This is your season! You have so many aspirations and goals, and you know you will get there in due time. Take this opportunity to stay present in the grounded moment, indulge all of your senses, and breathe in the confidence that comes with knowing that you can have whatever you want even in these times.
Everything happening is temporary and impermanent, as is the nature of all things. As your solar return comes back around, celebrate in your own way. In many ways, your sign is one of the best equipped to deal with situations like this pandemic - you are stable, practical, and rooted. You already tend to take each day as it comes and know how to enjoy every moment. Just keep doing that, keep being you, the world needs you as you are and we will in the future, too.
Gemini and Gemini Rising
This is a good time to assess and reassess what is essential and working for you. Let this season be all about self-care. Venus is in your sign urging you to express your needs, including the ones you keep hidden from yourself. If you are not honest about your needs and wants, how do you expect to find them? Carve out some time to discover and get to the root of your desires, and watch your life bloom this spring and into harvest season.
Cancer and Cancer Rising
We are collectively experiencing a shadow period and things are coming up from the past - things like nostalgia and longing to return to "normalcy.” When you feel triggered and shadowy, or even stuck, get your feet in the ground or firmly on the floor to shift into the present. You are stronger than you give yourself credit for, so don’t let your past keep you from the future that you know is yours.
Leo and Leo Rising
It's a good time to invest in your business and your career pursuits and aspirations for the future. Put those good ideas to use and get to work bringing to life all of those great ideas that may not feel like they have a landing place quite yet. Take the leap and trust that it will work out.
Even with current circumstances being what they are, it is still a great time and place to start mapping out your vision. You might be tempted to "future trip”, especially while considering money and security, but do your best to stay present. Have you handled every situation that has come your way so far? Yes! You are here for a reason, remember that.
Virgo and Virgo Rising
This season for you is all about clearing out the ambivalence, the flakiness, and the wishy-washy. It is time to stand firm in your truth and your beliefs. It’s time to take a stand. People will think of you what they think of you, and that is no longer your business because you are making room for a new business: the business of being completely, totally, and 100% yourself.
Get serious about what it is that makes you feel safe and secure and prioritize those things along with the people that support you in those ways. Get present and learn what you can, and maybe even plan what you are going to plunge into once quarantine is over. Start moving in the direction of your knowing and free yourself.
Libra and Libra Rising
This season is all about challenging yourself to go beyond self-imposed limits you have set for yourself - consciously or unconsciously. There aren't any rules right now, and you can use that wisdom to set yourself on the course of what it is you really want to be doing in this life (rather than what others want you to do, or what your ego sees yourself doing but doesn't light you up).
By the time your season comes around, your life could look completely different, it's just up to you to make the necessary changes and to gather the knowledge that will get you there by then. It's going to take some discipline, some creativity, and some adaptability, but luckily you can employ all of these traits within yourself when you focus and put your mind into it.
Scorpio and Scorpio Rising
You might be either deeply in your feelings right now or distracting yourself from them completely. Goal-setting, list-making, and achieving are things that come easily to you. Lean into that knowledge to structure your days, weeks, and months ahead. You have a lot to offer, and it's time to start offering a lot to yourself in terms of your self-care.
Knowing that plans can change and keeping them flexible avoids a sense of burnout and frustration that comes from piling things onto your plate. It is possible to hold in one hand the things you do to keep yourself sane and hold in the other the things that keep you disciplined. Just know when to switch back and forth. Allow yourself to responsibly indulge this season as you further navigate your options.
Sagittarius and Sagittarius Rising
"Balance" is your mantra this Taurus season. While that may make you cringe, just try to imagine it this way: you don't have to change yourself, you don't have to fit in, you just have to share with the world who you are, as you are. You're a pro at that! Balance means "get you a girl who can do both.” It means that "quarantine you" deserves all of the things as "non-quarantine you,” and there are ways to have those things that don't involve the travel and trips you wish you were taking right now. Find fun in new things and new ways of being, shift your perspective, and share what you're learning along the way. You might even find fulfillment and a new version of "fun.”
Capricorn and Capricorn Rising
Organizing, redecorating, DIY house projects. These practical things will improve your external space and will also improve your mood and wellbeing. If your WFH space feels stagnant, give it an update and hit the refresh button. Start by organizing one little corner of your space at a time by clearing out clutter. This will make space for new pieces that inspire your creativity. Updating our space and reorganizing shifts things around for us internally, and it may be just what you need.
Aquarius and Aquarius Rising
Allow yourself to indulge in play this Taurus season because what comes after is when you get to work again. Artistic self-expression is a great outlet for you right now - really anything that has you interacting with yourself or others in spaces that don't involve the intellectual thinking mind. You’re going to go there anyway, but it’s vital to give yourself breaks, too. Get a little silly and playful this month and allow things to unfold as they will.
Pisces and Pisces Rising
Focus on your self-care this season, and be vigilant about whatever that means for you. It's a good time to focus on the building blocks of what you specifically need to move forward in the direction you want to go. When nostalgia hits, let it hit, but also know that there is no going back to the past and that the steps you take today determine how you will move forward.
Mother yourself as you would a small child, or as you do your own child. Perspectives are shifting both inwardly and outwardly, so be patient and protective of yourself in the process. Everything is unfolding as it should. "Trust" is your mantra this season. Trust in the timing of your life.
Aries and Aries Rising
You are always one to make the most of the situation - maybe you've taken up a new hobby out of boredom or necessity. Perhaps it's cooking, gardening, or cleaning more often than normal. Despite whichever hobby you've taken up, have you tried letting yourself just "be" more than normal?
Make sure to make space in your day to allow yourself to just be. It's uncomfortable at first, but like any new thing you’re learning, it just takes practice (and you don’t have to be perfect at it). So get into receiving mode, and make it part of your daily practice for a while. A good idea is to relax with a bath or anything you might not normally “do”.
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Elisabeth is a writer and astrologer, based in Seattle. To connect with her more about astrology, you can connect with her via a chart reading her Instagram @elisabetham, or email her at info@elisabethmckinley.com.