Happy birthday to all members of the Taurus Tribe! We are moving from Aries energy 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 coloring of different Taurus people’s self-expression 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 Gemini Ascendant. For me, this position of the Sun helps me condense spiritual concepts, like astrology, and make them applicable and useful. I have 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 all relates to the 12th house. For me things always have to have some practical application and value.

I think that is also the reason 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 elevate 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 with 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 1st 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 throughout and each piece has a special meaning and beauty to me. How does that work for you? How important is beauty in your life?

Taurus late spring sign

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 the beauty found in things like art, jewelry, and the natural landscape. They are loyal, patient, and deliberate in working toward their goals, just as farmers should be in tending their crops from planting to harvest. When a Taurus person undertakes a project, they are most likely to complete it! Based on reality and the physical world, they excel in professions such as artist, farmer, the financial sector, and politics.

Taurus likes to be comfortable and often likes to stay at home and make it their castle. My husband is a Cancer Sun with a Taurus Ascendant; 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, Earth’s hidden treasures?

Gemstones have both physical and metaphysical qualities that can enhance all aspects of your well-being. The perfectly aligned crystalline structure of gemstones creates an energy field that interacts with ours when you meditate on it, hold it, or wear it on your body. In this way, the gemstone can be used to calm you down, give you mental clarity, increase your energy, enhance your creativity, and much more.

The signature of precious stones

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 whenever 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 Jewelry and Gems 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 place on Earth, in Poona, India. The Poona mine was closed after a few years of operation due to objections from citizens to blowing up in the middle of their town; therefore this is a very rare stone and good pieces are hard to find nowadays.

I love this stone for its unique giving qualities to the heart. In its naturally crystallized form, it can be set into 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 is focused in 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 soul’s longing 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 need to 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 generate emotions that are not in line with Christ consciousness or unity consciousness. It can work as a spiritual growth accelerator by helping us cleanse ourselves of pain, anger, jealousy, and fear, all so-called negative emotions, by 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 gemstone 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 potential they have

When 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 hearts can elevate us to the higher consciousness of unity and unconditional love, helping the heart to flourish. And I think that is our deepest desire.

Aloha and many blessings, Shakti.