The Taurean's characteristics are solidity, practicality, extreme
determination and strength of will - no one will ever drive them, but
they will willingly and loyally follow a leader they trust. They are
stable, balanced, conservative good, law-abiding citizens and lovers of
peace, possessing all the best qualities of the bourgeoisie. as they have
a sense of material values and physical possessions, respect for property
and a horror of falling into debt, they will do everything in their power to
maintain the security of the status quo and be stupidly hostile to change.

Mentally, they are keen-witted and practical rather than intellectual,
but apt to become fixed in their opinions through their preference for
following  accepted and reliable patterns of experience. Their character
is generally  dependable, steadfast, prudent, just, firm and unshaken
in the face of difficulties. Their vices arise from their virtues, going
to extremes such as  being too slavish to the conventions they admire,
obstinately and  exasperatingly self-righteous, unoriginal, rigid,
ultraconservative, argumentative, querulous bores, stuck in a
self-centered rut. They may develop a brooding resentment through
nursing a series of injuries received  and, whether their characters
are positive or negative, they need someone to like their egos
with a frequent, "Well Done!"

They are faithful and generous friends with a great capacity
for affection,  but rarely make friends with anyone outside their
social rank, to which they  are ordinarily excessively faithful.
In the main, they are gentle, even tempered, good natured, modest
and slow to anger, disliking quarrelling and avoiding  ill-feeling.
If they are provoked, however, they can explode into violent 
outbursts of ferocious anger in which they seem to lose all
self-control. Equally unexpected are their occasional sallies
into humor and exhibitions  of fun.

Although their physical appearance may belie it, they have
a strong aesthetic taste, enjoying art, for which they may have
a talent, beauty (actively recoiling  from anything sordid or ugly)
and music. They may have a strong, sometimes  unconventional,
religious faith. Allied to their taste for all things beautiful
is a love for the good things of life pleasure, comfort, luxury
and good food and wine and they may have to resist the temptation
to over indulgence, leading to drunkenness, gross sensuality,
and covetousness.

In their work, Taureans are industrious and good craftsmen,
and are not afraid of getting their hands dirty. They are reliable,
practical, methodical and ambitious, within a framework of
obedience to superiors. They are at their best in routine
positions of trust and responsibility, where there is little
need of urgency and even less risk of change, and a pension
at the end. Yet they are creative and good  founders of enterprises
where the rewards of their productiveness some from their own
work and not that of others.

They can flourish in many different trades and professions:
banking, architecture,  building, almost any form of bureaucracy,
auctioneering, farming, medicine, chemistry, industry Taureans
make good managers and foremen surveying,insurance,
education and, perhaps surprisingly, music and sculpture.
They make an ideal trustee or guardian, and can attain eminence
as a chef. Some Taureans are gifted enough in singing to become
opera stars or to excel in more popular types of music.

They are more than averagely amorous and sensually self-conscious,
but sexually straightforward and not given to experiment. They
make constant, faithful, home loving spouses and thoughtful,
kindly parents, demanding too much of neither their spouses
nor children. They can be over possessive and may sometimes
play the game of engineering family rows for the pleasure of
making up the quarrel. If anyone offends their amore proper
they can be a determined enemy, though magnanimous in
forgiveness if their opponent makes an effort to meet them
halfway.

Taurus governs the throat and neck and its subjects need to
beware throat infections, goiter and respiratory ailments such
as asthma. They are said to be at risk of diseases of the genitals,
womb, liver and kidneys, and of abscesses and rheumatism.
Because their body type has an inclination to physical laziness,
Taureans can be overweight.