Ask this person a question and there will be a pause. The pause is the work. Taurus thinking moves at the speed of digestion, turning a matter over until it has weight and edges, and until an answer can be given that will still hold next year. Rushing produces nothing but irritation. Given time, it produces judgements of unusual reliability, which is why colleagues learn to bring the difficult decision here and come back on Thursday for the verdict.
Speech is economical and concrete. Abstractions are translated into things that can be held, priced, or tasted before they are trusted, and a theory with no practical outcome is treated as decoration. Voices with this placement tend toward the low and unhurried, and the sentences are short of adjectives but exact in their nouns. In argument the tactic is simply not to move. No new fact is denied; it is set aside for consideration, and consideration takes as long as it takes. Opponents usually leave first.
Memory is the great asset: what enters stays, particularly if it entered through the hands. This is a mind that learns by repetition and physical practice, keeps recipes and passwords in an actual notebook, and can quote the price of things bought in another decade. The cost is that an opinion, once set, has to be levered out rather than revised. Being shown wrong is felt as a loss of ground rather than a correction, and the reversal, when it comes, comes quietly and long after the conversation.
What It Gives
- ◆sound settled judgement
- ◆exceptional long memory
- ◆calm under verbal pressure
- ◆concrete practical explanation
What It Costs
- ◆resistance to revising opinions
- ◆slowness under real deadlines
- ◆distrust of the abstract
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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