Daily Horoscope for Taurus

Horoscope Cast for Saturday, October 17th, 2009

by daniel "bud" dowd

Daily Horoscope for Taurus Summary

On the way home today, I had a discussion with my buddy Markquis on the effect of relativity in competition and its effects on a person's development. People need to be pushed, challenged to dig deep in order to reach higher levels. If you practice doing something, say for instance, lifting 140 lbs., over and over again, you might get really good at lifting 140 lbs. but you won't be in any shape to lift 300 lbs. At some point you need to challenge yourself in more difficult scenarios in order to get better.

The same works with people. If you're 6 foot 3 and you play basketball against little kids all the time, you're not developing your skills. You need to play against people who will actually defend you and force you to adapt in order to find success, and then subsequently growth.

Those are physical examples but the same goes for the mental side of things as well. If you learn the same subject material over and over again, you can become quite adept with it, but unless you try to learn more advanced material or more advanced techniques, your learning will stagnate.

This brings us to the chart energy for the weekend. At first glance, this energy would seem “tough”. Chiron's involved which usually requires us to get knocked down before we get back up again. It represents the challenges we're likely to face right now. It's hooking up with Neptune (which makes this a largely mental transit), which will strengthen our ability to arise from our shortcomings and make the adaptations necessary to progress. Both are connecting to the Sun in a manner that will take a lot of the “initiation” issues out of our hands; the Universe is going to put us into these situations rather than us having to find a way to cause them ourselves.

You put it altogether and we're likely to get thrown into some “rough” spots, that might be briefly uncomfortable, but are designed to get us past certain hurdles we've been letting hold us back. Sometimes the universe has to pinch us to make its points, but a pinch is usually sharp, brief and before long, we've forgotten the sting. When all is said and done, if you can manage to face some of your flaws or mental hang-ups, this energy will lift you up. But if you try to evade such things, they'll linger and you won't move past them. Dig deep and show some adaptability. Best of luck.

Bud

The Daily Horoscope for Taurus

Some of your current ideas are ripe to be implemented, especially if they involve business plans or in capturing a larger audience regarding the things you're doing. Much of the drive here comes from an inner need to improve where you stand against your peers. You might even use some of these peers (and their successes) to foster a competitive edge inside of you that brings you up to a higher level. There might be some discouraging shots to take this weekend, particularly when have doubts or are trying something out for the first time, but you can rebound strongly from these and every time you fall down, you'll jump back up again even stronger.

...Show some Love...

Yesterday's Horoscope       Tomorrow's Horoscope

---

daily horoscopes:

( Red = Fire ) * ( Green = Earth ) * ( Purple=Air ) * ( Blue = Water )
Aries  Taurus  Gemini  Cancer  Leo  Virgo 

Libra  Scorpio  Sagittarius  Capricorn  Aquarius  Pisces 

weekly horoscopes:

  ( Red = Cardinal ) ( Green = Fixed ) ( Blue = Mutable )
  Aries  Taurus  Gemini  Cancer  Leo  Virgo 

Libra  Scorpio  Sagittarius  Capricorn  Aquarius  Pisces 

---

Today's Astrology Quote of the Day:
Astrology is astronomy brought down to earth and applied toward the affairs of man...
Ralph Waldo Emerson

---

Daily Tao

After settling a great dispute
There must be remaining resentments
How can this be considered good?
Therefore the sage holds the left part of the contract
But does not demand payment from the other person
Those who have virtue hold the contract
Those without virtue hold the collections

The Heavenly Tao has no favorites
It constantly gives to the kind people

---