Regardless of whether you're a male or female, the very first love of your life was your mother (or if mom was absent, then another mother figure in your environment).The Moon symbolizes the unconscious, instincts, and what you need to feel nurtured in your life. As adults, the Moon is the "place" where we go for comfort when scared and frightened.... and we tend to unconsciously nurture ourselves in much the same way our mothers nurtured and cared for us when we were very young children.

With the Moon in Taurus, you dislike change in your surroundings. You may have seen your mother as being earthy, traditional, steady, and very reliable. So, as an adult, you now have an unconscious emotional need for stability and steady routines. The more familiar and unchanging your environment, the safer you'll feel. To help protect your sense of safety, you may attempt to rigidly hold on to and control your environment by keeping out any and all unnecessary change, disruption, and/or chaos. Because you feel the safest when surrounded by physical, tangible things that you can touch, see, smell, taste, and hear - you may seek out ways to physically "pamper" yourself when under stress. Physical closeness, touch, and affection are the best ways your "significant other" can express (and reassure) you of their love. (i.e. A hug a day keeps the doctor away.) Likewise, your lover withholding physical expressions of love and affection is an ironclad, guaranteed way to make you feel all alone and unloved.

Other ways you handle day to day stress? As mentioned above, you have a very strong affinity for the pleasurable earthy sensations of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing. Thus, there are several different sensory avenues you may instinctively choose when seeking relief from the stress of day to day life. However, the two most common methods are love of food and love of sex. These two main avenues, food and sex, are due mainly to the fact that both really good food and really good sex are capable of satisfying all five of your physical senses - touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing - at the same time. Other ways you may seek relief? Relaxing in a comfortable easy chair while listening to music�?getting a weekly massage at the local health spa. Planning that dream vacation? I sincerely hope it includes being pampered and spoiled until you cry out for mercy.