continued from The Magical Earth: Unveiling the Mysticism of Astrology’s Earth Signs
Taurus: the Resurrection Man, the power of Regeneration
The Taurus/Scorpio Polarity
is often a difficult one for students to get a hold of. Partly, it’s because of the multi-level nature of the Scorpio symbolism. Scorpion, Eagle? The Scorpion lives in the desert and the Eagle flies above the Earth. Not really very helpful for water imagery. There was the Phoenix, too. A mystical bird that rose from its own ashes. Again, not helpful for water.
I blame the ongoing literal-mindedness of this age (the dark side of the age of Pisces being Virgo’s pedantic mind-set; I blame it for reality TV, too). We understand Ram, Bull, Crab, Twins, Lions, Virgins and all the rest. But going back in time, the symbol for Scorpio was a winged serpent. Not something you might see on a day trip to the country. The winged serpent was closer to what we would now know as a dragon. It mastered all the elements, could walk the earth, could fly, could live in water, could come throughfire. And above all, it was immortal. Depending on the culture and the way the image evolved, it could shed a skin, or arise from its own ashes. Sadly, we have to now take a number of literal animals for what was once a single mythical one, each one providing a truncated bit of the Scorpio mythology.
The focal point, the thrust behind the mythology, is immortality.
The creature could fly, and it could burn, but it lived both on land and in water. It could swim in the waters of the unconscious and come back again to negotiate the earth. The Serpent goes hand in hand in many cultures with the chthonic tree of life, the tree of immortality.
Taurus is about having, but it is also about stewardship. Honoring the material world and caring for it. But all Matter must come to the end of its cycle. Is absolute death at the end of all things? The magic of Taurus, the secret power, is in knowing that death is not an absolute. Taurus creates new life through understanding that shedding the old is not equal to death. One cannot hang on. But one can repair, heal, conjoin; the magic of Taurus, the mystical Taurus, is in mastering material renewal. We can heal ourselves. The Cadeusus is a serpent crawling up the tree of life. The Ourobouros continues to swallow its tail. The Taurus will honor life’s cyclical, seasonal, self-healing process and let itself heal. The ultimate patience of Taurus is about having faith in the healing process. The late nineties comic, the Resurrection Man is about a man who is killed many times over, each time returning to life with a different gift. This is the higher Taurus power—the unending abundance of the earth. Taurus represents the generosity of life, and creates through the knowledge that we are never done. Far from staring at the blankness and creating from nothing, Taurus understands that as seasons go by, more fruit is always on the way. That scarcity is in fact, a myth. Scarcity of spirit is non existent. Taurus’ magical knowledge of earth is that: we can regenerate not only ourselves, but our surroundings, without lifting a finger. Faith in the healing power of the Earth. Minimum care. When we throw away the accumulative side of Venusian desire, and have faith in self-repair, we will regenerate.
Taurus cuts itself off from the creative process by denying Scorpio and by losing touch with Venus and believing in final death, believing in scarcity. Those are the unhappy Taureans who cannot let go; their lives can be full of physical losses, because the lesson is actually one of abundance. The Venus energy is not only about desire. It is primarily a connecting power. Esoteric astrology puts Venus as ruler of Gemini.
By Dawn Bodrogi Astrologer
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