Fixed Sign

Epithemia(with affinities to Taurus)

To the Greeks, epithemia represented part of what we humans have in common with the other animals. Epithemia was the instinctive urge for touching and caressing.
Epithemia is that physical, sensual, sexual urge expressing itself as an inner-tension in the body which needs to be relieved. And the closest match we've got for epithemia in the English language is probably the word, "horny."

To the Greeks.... there was little, if any, shame attached to these basic needs and instinctual drives of the body. The Greeks recognized epithemia as natural needs the body had.

Epithemia was not

romanticized

eroticized

or moralized.
Survival Signs
According to British astrologer Walter Sampson (early 20th century) in his book Zodiac - the Epitome.... the first four signs of the Zodiac (Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer) are primitive, elemental, childlike survival signs. (i.e. There is only "me" and my survival at stake.)

Among these survival signs, Taurus is specifically associated with survival "through awareness of the senses."


Taurus

Taurus is associated with the garden of paradise.... Taurus reflects a childlike innocence and naivet? concerning the senses and the fulfillment of their instinctual needs.

It's become a well known fact that children can have everything else they need to survive.... But if not touched, held or caressed - children may quite literally physically wither away and die.

As adults, we don't somehow magically outgrow our basic need for physical contact.

As adults, we're still

hungry to be touched
hungry to be held
and hungry to be caressed.


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Venus, Ruler of Taurus
And if Venus (Aphrodite) the goddess of love, who rules the sign of Taurus, is not honored in us - she, then, becomes an angry, ugly, uninvited guest who stirs up a whole world of trouble.

Venus will stir up trouble until she finally receives her rightful invitation into our individual lives or into the life of our society.

Testimony of her uglier, angrier nature is much in evidence - right here - on the darker side of the Internet.

Next on our journey of love through the Zodiac is the romantic, playful love of the adolescent Leo, as seen in phileo?.