Mars in Taurus Compilation

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Subjects with Mars in Taurus
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

-Fidel Castro

-Andrew Jackson

-Adolf Hitler

-Patrick Henry

-Osama Bin Laden

-Joseph Stalin

-Michael Jackson

-Timothy Mcveigh

-Catherine the Great


as we move through the subjects, we will take an in-depth look at the effects of this placement.
(this project is not near complete)

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mars in Taurus

Mars in House VIII

With Mars in the 8th House, you seem to be meant for confrontations and crises. This configuration predisposes to challenges and heroic actions. Struggles may go as far as self-sacrifice, which may involve your interests, and in pathological cases, your own life. The Tradition mentions psychic powers and an inner magnetism on which will power has little control... Passion. You are fascinated by romantic relationships where love and hate are entangled. Female Black Widow, a species of spider, kills the male after love.


(taken from "JFK and the Unthinkable")

...Thomas Merton had seen it all coming. He had said prophetically in a cold war letter that if President Kennedy broke through to a deeper, more universal humanity, he would before long be "marked out for assasination." Kennedy agreed. As we have seen, he even described the logic of a coming coup d'etat in his complements on the novel Seven Days in May. JFK felt that his own demise was increasingly likely if he continued to buck his military advisers. He then proceeded to do exactly that.


...Kennedy rejected the virtually unanimous recommendations of his advisers in the fall of 1961 to send combat troops to Vietnam. Taylor reflected later on the uniqueness of JFK's position: "I dont recall anyone who was strongly against [sending ground troops], except one man and that was the President. The President just didnt want to be convinced that this was the right thing to do... it was really the Presidents personal conviction that U.S. ground troops shouldnt go in."

Kennedy was so resistant to the military's demand for troops that he took a step he knew would further alienate them. He subverted his military leaders' recommendations by planting a story that they were against sending combat units.


...His military advisers continued to ride hard toward the apocalypse. Kennedy was appalled by Generals Lemnitzer's and LeMays insistence at two summer meetings that they wanted his authorization to use nuclear weapons in both Berlin and Southeast Asia. His response was to walk out of the meetings.

After one such walkout, he threw his hands in the air, glanced back at the generals and admirals left in the Cabinet room, and said, "These people are crazy."

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He knew the threat of death as pain's companion. He nearly died of scarlet fever as a child, of a blood condition as a teenager, from the ramming of his PT 109 by a Japanese destroyer in the Solomon Islands, and from recurrences of malaria during and after the war. In the Solomons, he risked his life to the point of total exhaustion in efforts to save the lives of his crewmembers. In one such attempt, he lost consciousness in the middle of Ferguson Passage and drifted through a night of delirium to the edge of an open sea. Then the current moved him through a huge circle back to the sart of his odyssey and new life. Kennedy knew death intimately. When he met death again in the gaze of generals, he was not afraid.

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Fidel Castro

Mars in Taurus

Mars in House XI

With Mars in the 11th House, you are concerned about lost causes. More than anyone else, you feel the need to take action now, straight away, and to devote yourself in order to improve the situation. You don't need to make long speeches! What is important is to actively participate, on the field, in the project you are interested in. You never hesitate to intervene when individual freedom is threatened, or when injustice strikes one of your close friends.

(taken from JFK and the Unthinkable)

..Fidel Castro saw the isolation in which John Kennedy had been placed by even the moderate reforms of his Alliance for Progress. And he understood the much deeper waters Kennedy was negotiating by his beginning detente with Nikita Krushchev, and by his now initiating a dialogue with Castro himself. Kennedy's courage gave him hope. As the hand of the clock in Daniel's hotel room neared 4:00 A.M. on November 20, Castro expressed his hope for Kennedy:

"I cannot help hoping that a leader will come to the fore in North America, who will be willing to brave unpopularity, figh the trusts, tell the truth and, most important, let the various nations act as they see fit. Kennedy could still be this man. He still has the possibility of becoming, in the eyes of history, the greatest President of the United States, the leader who may at last understand that there can be co-existance between capitalists and socialists, even in the Americas. He would then be an even greater President than Lincoln."

Castro's view of Kennedy was changing. He had been influenced especially by his pro-Kennedy tutorial in the Soviet Union with Nikita Krushchev. "I know," Castro told Daniel, "that for Krushchev, Kennedy is a man you can talk with. I have gotten this impression from all my conversations with Krushchev."

Like Krushchev, Castro hoped to work with the U.S. President during his second four-year term to fulfill a vision of co-existance. He joked with Daniel that maybe he could help Kennedy's campaign for reelection.

..After the death of JFK, Lyndon Johnson put on permanent hold any dialogue between the White House and Fidel Castro, who kept seeking it.

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Fidel Castro


..Against increasing odds, the Cuban side of the connection had still not given up. Inspired by his progress with Kennedy, Castro continued to seek a dialogue with the United States, in spite of President Johnson's silence in response to his overtures.

"Tell the president (and I cannot stress with too strongly) that I seriously hope that Cuba and the United States can eventually sit down in an atmosphere of good will and of mutual repsect and negotiate our differences. I believe that there are NO areas of contention between us that cannot be discussed and settled in a climate of mutual understanding. But first, of course, it is necessary to DISCUSS our differences. I now believe that this hostility between Cuba and the United States is both unnatural and unnecessary- and it can be eliminated..

If the President feels it necessary during the compaign to make bellicose statements about Cuba or even to take some hostile action- if he will inform me, unofficially, that a specific action is required because of domestic political considerations, I shall understand and not take any serious retaliatory action."

Althought Johnson, as usual, made no reply to this message, Castro kept trying to communicate with him through Lisa Howard and UN ambassador Adlai Stevenson. On June 26, 1964, Stevenson wrote a "Secret and Personal" memo to Johnson saying Castro felt that "all of our crises could be avoided if there was some way to communicate; that for want of anything better, he assumed that he could call [Howard] and she call me and i would advise you. Again Johnson gave no response.

Castro even enlisted the help of Cuban Minister of Industry Ernesto "Che" Guevara, previously an opponent to dialogue, in what had become a Cuban diplomatic offensive for negotiations with the United States.

Oh... I have mars in taurus...

Hmmm...


What about sun in Taurus With mars in Taurus males—


Better watch out for them fuckers.... haha

The planet Mars indicates how you react to life concrete stimulations. It also describes your fighting spirit, your abilities to stand for yourself and to take action. With Mars in Taurus, your will is strong and you are a very efficient person, persevering and tenacious. When you are prompted by your instinct to undertake any given step, no obstacle can put you off. However, your reactions are not unconsidered: you thoroughly ponder over and over before taking action. But it is hard for you to let go. This planetary configuration endows you with an extraordinary steadfastness. The other side of the coin: tenacity may turn into stubbornness. It is important that you control this strength and that you display more flexibility. It is good to persevere in one's efforts, but not in one's errors.

Once you set your mind on a goal, your dedication, determination, and commitment to it are extraordinary. You pursue your ambitions tenaciously and will stubbornly refuse to give up, let go, or be influenced in any way. Like Aesop's tortoise, you labor patiently and steadfastly until you achieve what you want - or until it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that all is lost. You are a reliable, consistent, and productive worker, and often shoulder more of the workload than your co- workers, usually without complaint. The nitty-gritty work often falls to you. You prefer a regular routine, with definite hours and clearly defined responsibilities and tasks. In fact, establishing a pattern or routine is very important to your success because once you get started in a certain direction, is easy for you to follow it through to its completion. Getting started is more difficult. You have a lazy, comfort-loving side and there is often a good deal of inertia for you to overcome before you get going. Once you get a momentum going, your energy level is strong and steady.

You are interested in concrete results and solid, practical achievement. You need to have some tangible product or contribution to show for your efforts, and cannot be content with only intangible rewards (such as having a good time, learning, or spiritual enrichment). Material well-being and security is also a large factor in determining what you do. Your stamina and persistence is your great strength but it can also work against you; you can get caught in a rut and refuse to seize new opportunities. You also tend to play it safe, and to limit yourself in that way.

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