Happy birthday to all members of the Taurus Tribe! We are moving from the energy of Aries to feeling more grounded and willing to take care of our physical reality and well-being. Making practical plans and then following them step by step is the Taurus way of life. Of course, the coloration of self-expression of different Taurus people is due to what else they have in their chart. The house position and aspects of your Taurus Sun will make a significant difference in how you can express yourself as a Taurus.
A Taurus is not like any other Taurus.
For example: I have a late Taurus Sun in the 12th house, as well as my Mercury ruling my Ascendant in Gemini. For me, this position of the Sun helps me condense spiritual concepts, like astrology, and make them applicable and useful. I always had a way with words, although it is definitely more difficult for me to write in English than in my mother tongue, German. And I am a meditation teacher and healer that everything is related to the 12th house. For me things always have to have some practical application and value.
I think that is also why I love working with the healing properties of gemstones, because they are a very concrete manifestation on the one hand but very transcendent in their connection to the non-physical realm on the other. They can balance us and imbue us with their essence. They can lift us to higher states of consciousness if we use them for our meditation. Or they can alter our frequency if we wear them in our jewelry on us.
I also love beauty in all its forms: in nature, art, design, people, animals, gemstones and crystals, jewelry. Taurus is ruled by Venus and my Venus is in my first house, which makes it doubly important to my life. Everything has to be beautiful to me. My room has golden yellow walls and red accents everywhere and each piece has special meaning and beauty to me. How does that work for you? How important is beauty in your life?
The late spring sign of Taurus
At the end of April the Northern Hemisphere is free of its winter snows and it is time to attend to the care of the Earth and the planting of crops. In general it can be said that Taurus people are very in tune with the Earth. Due to the influence of Venus, they have a great love for beauty found in things like art, jewelry, and the natural landscape. They are loyal, patient, and deliberate in working toward their goals, much like farmers should be in caring for their crops from planting to harvest. When a Taurus person undertakes a project, they will most likely complete it! Based on reality and the physical world, they excel in professions such as an artist, a farmer, the financial sector, and politics.
Taurus likes to be comfortable and often likes to stay home and make it their castle. My husband is a Cancer Sun with Taurus Rising; he almost never leaves the house. Physical comfort, health, good nutrition, sex and everything that helps to enjoy the world through the senses is important to Taurus.
How Gemstones Can Enhance Your Taurus Experience
Taurus is a feminine earth sign. What better way to celebrate Taurus’s love of beauty and the Earth than with beautiful gemstones, the hidden treasures of the Earth?
Gemstones have both physical and metaphysical qualities that can enhance all aspects of your well-being. The perfectly aligned crystal structure of gemstones creates an energy field that interacts with ours when you meditate with it, hold it or wear it on your body. In this way, the gemstone can be used to calm you down, bring you mental clarity, increase your energy, enhance your creativity, and much more.
The gemstone signature
Each gemstone has its own personality depending on its planetary composition. We call this the personal “signature” which is specified by chemical composition, hardness, color, translucency and reflection, and crystal structure. Like for example, if we know that a gemstone has iron in it, we know that it is a good stone for all Mars-related problems. So as long as Mars has hard aspects, that stone would help balance that friction.
Below is a description of Apophyllite, one of the true astrological birthstones for Taurus, taken from the book Gems and Jewelry for Self-Discovery: Choosing Gemstones That Delight the Eyes and Strengthen the Soul.
This time I want to introduce you to a very special and rare gemstone that you may not have heard of yet.
Apophyllite (Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Chiron)
Apophyllite is a very rare, light green, four-sided, diamond-faced crystal found in only one location on Earth, in Poona, India. The Poona mine was closed after a few years of operation due to citizens’ objections to dynamiting in the middle of their town; therefore this is a very rare stone and good pieces are hard to find today.
I love this stone for its unique generous qualities for the heart. In its natural crystallized form, it can be placed in beautiful pendants and worn directly over the heart. This is a stone for the heart chakra and connects us to Christ consciousness and love in its highest form.
This energy focuses on our heart and connects us with the quality of compassion as a result of realizing who we really are: eternal spiritual beings of love, experiencing ourselves as humans on this earth plane.
Apophyllite’s light color is soft and gentle, almost like a fragrance, and its energy is very subtle, calming and expansive. The longing of the heart is to experience communion and unity with God, with life in all its facets. It is the yearning of the soul to melt the shell that surrounds the heart and heal its wounds, and compassion is the natural result of this process.
The planet Chiron represents the wounded healer. Chiron shows us our deepest pain in the birth chart. He shows us where we must heal ourselves and where we can become healers for others as a result of our own experience. Chiron and Neptune are hand in hand, joining their energies to help us experience the highest truth of love and compassion: this is what we call “Christ consciousness.”
Apophyllite can also bring about emotions that are not in line with Christ consciousness or unity consciousness. It can function as a spiritual growth accelerator by helping us cleanse ourselves of pain, anger, jealousy, and fear, all so-called negative emotions, realigning us with the truth that we are divine consciousness.
This crystal is one of the most powerful healers for the heart and is therefore a stone for healers. It is very beneficial to wear this beautiful and unique gem over the heart, or for meditation you can place it on the third eye or heart chakra. It combines very well with Ruby or Spinel, which add other aspects of the heart.
Gemstones can offer you the greatest potentiality they have
Reading about Apophyllite qualities, you may not have imagined that these are necessarily Taurus qualities. But Taurus is a deeply loving and caring being and can be truly centered in his heart in all of his physical actions. For all of us, wearing an Apophyllite pendant over our heart can lift us into higher consciousness of oneness and unconditional love, helping the heart to blossom. And I think that is our deepest longing.
Aloha and many blessings, Shakti.
