When your ruling planet lets you down

This topic was created in the Taurus forum by 2012 on Thursday, May 19, 2011 and has 13 replies.

Understanding Your Ruling Planet's Influence on Your Traits

Your ruling planet shapes core personality traits and behaviors. For example, Venus influences love and harmony, but its expression varies among signs. Recognizing how planetary energies manifest helps clarify personal strengths and challenges, especially when they seem contradictory to your sign's typical qualities. This understanding can improve self-awareness and relationship dynamics.

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@2012
15 Years

Just have a look at the comparison I've set up,

Sign LIBRA: Balance, Harmony, Justice, Courtesy, Hopefulness, Artistic ability, Relationships, Vanity
Planet VENUS: Affection, Attraction, Harmony, Personal Love, Social Instincts and Activities, Art, Beauty,
House 7TH: Unions, Balance, Love, Partnerships, Sharing, Marriage, Aesthetic values

Sign TAURUS: Determination, Endurance, Thoroughness, Conservatism, Practicality, Fertility, Steadiness, Grounded
New Planet? EARTH: Steadiness, Resilient, Physicality, Fertility, Constancy, Mundane, Growing, Life-Force
House 2N😱 Purpose, Money, Possessions, Stabilizing Forces, Values, Standards, Resilience

I've tried to convince myself that Venus is practical, stable, strong, and grounded enough to govern
*The Zodiacs's Physical Fixed Earth Sign of Taurus*
but the contradictions are are ultimately offensive and disappointing

I'm not a Taurus, but pretty much all Taureans I know honestly aren't motivated or consumed by "affection", "harmony", "balance", "art" or "beauty". See the above Taurus/Earth/2nd house keywords for what they're really like.

I don't know why nobody has questioned this much before.. Maybe because Taureans just don't care enough (venus and libra care though)?
It's just not fair that my Taurus gf looks at her ruling planet Venus and she feels disappointed, small, passive, disheartened... while I get to read about my planet Pluto and feel plenty of respect and inspiration.
She resonates with all the qualities that planet Earth embodies, but nearly none of Venus's traits.

also, I feel this way about Virgo and Mercury. I think Virgo deserves the credit and respect that Vulcan brings. It just looks silly with Mercury as it's ruler.

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@BellatheBull
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I don't know why nobody has questioned this much before.. Maybe because Taureans just don't care enough (venus and libra care though)?
It's just not fair that my Taurus gf looks at her ruling planet Venus and she feels disappointed, small, passive, disheartened.

I've never questioned it before...because it's accurate.
If your gf feels that way...you need to be looking at other things in her chart,perhaps her Saturn aspects.

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@USCTaurusGal
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VB - I KNOW, nothing good would come out of that encounter! The only thing good that would come out of it would be that there would be kickass food, drinks and comedy relief (compliments of Taurguy for sure - as well as a few others I will not name). HOWEVER, I am certain there would be some debauchery, and...well, you know the rest 😉