TAURUS Ascendant

Taurus Ascendant:
There is a steadfastness, a basic calm about a Taurus Ascendant. If you have Taurus Rising, you tend to be placid and easygoing. You also have charming social manners, are higly sensual and have a strong artistic bent, for the sign of Taurus is ruled by Venus, planet of love and esthetics. You want to create beauty and harmony in your life, and many Taurus Ascendants have a flair for writing, decorating, or composing music. Taurus-Rising don't push their opinions on others. On the other hand, once you make up your mind (after due deliberation), you rarely change it. You hold on to your opinions and can be very stubborn and obstinate. You are also quite set in your ways, though this is not always apparent at first. It's the little clues that give you away: you may eat the same breakfast day in and day out; if you are fond of a particular color (possibly in the blue or rose family, which are Taurean colors), you may use it repeatedly in your clothes or throughout your house. Doing things the same way you've always done them gives you a sense of stability, and that is a fundamental need.

Taurus-Rising people have a reputation for laziness that is not entirely deserved. It is true that you love creature comforts, elegance, luxury, physical ease, and lots of leisure. However, you can and do work very hard, especially if motivated by the promise of or by the approval of someone you love. Determined, persistent, and strong-willed, you possess endless patience to see a thing through, to make it a success. Taurus is the sign of wealth and material possessions, both of which are extremely important to you. You have a tendancy to brood about your future security: Will there be enough to keep from starving? Are you going to be able to pay the rent next year? The fears and worries do not require a basis in reality. In fact, though you may have to struggle for money when you are young, Taurus Rising people tend to accumulate wealth as the years roll by. Owning things can sometimes become a mania; you covet possessions and once you own something, you guard it jealously and are heartbroken should you lose it. You never resign yourself to the fact that things break, tear, wear-out, get lost, are stolen.

In relationships, as well, you tend to be jealous and possessive - although you are adept at hiding this. Having to cope with rivalry is hard for you. You may try to pretend the prize is not worthy.

Scorpio on the Descendant: calls for outmoded patterns of behaviour to be transformed.

Well, i'm a Taurus ascendant myself...lol* ..so i like to read-up as much as i can, and pass it on to other taurus risings, as well. 🙂 I find most good info on astro sites, but this rising sign post i got from one of my own fav. astrology books..

I have a taurus ascendent and I'm trying to embrace it, I like that I have the will of a bull but I think it brings a lot self destruction also, laziness, gluttony, possessiveness and in most cases bullying.

I have to balance out my Taurus energy b/c it brings out my warrior like tendencies, I can obstinate and some cases the bully, not deliberately bullying but I mean in a way to try and get my way or to get answers out of someone, I find that I do things in excess be it food, love, giving money, making money, I'm in it to win it, maybe why so many taurus men love my Aqua energy, I wasn't sure were the attraction was stemming from but now I know...As it states I can hide these negatives very well but now I'm just letting it all out and focusing on the positives.

..cool, welcome to the *bull* rising clan RFL..! 😉