#taurus iii

The Sun enters the third decan of Taurus, which Austin Coppock called The Prayer Beads, on Saturday 10 May 2025 at 5:59 am EDT. He remains there for ten days, eight hours, and fifty-six minutes until the Sun’s ingress to Gemini on 20 May 2025. The Tarot enthusiasts among the Golden Dawn’s early adherents believed that it was the Seven of Pentacles which was associated with this decan — a card…

Sun in Taurus III — The Litai, or prayers, are honored in the next ten days. How do you pray? Does praying change the world? Or you? Or both at the same time?

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Astrology: Sun in Taurus III — advice for another ten days or so, until May 21.

May 10 sees the start of the next decan, the one which Austin Coppock called “The Prayer Beads” , and which the Chaldean order assigns to the rulership of the cold and ponderous Saturn. A Venus-ruled Saturn is rather like a beautiful Gothic lady dressed up in black lace veils and rosary beads, so perhaps the image of prayer-beads on a string is appropriate. The Hellenistic text 36 Airs of the…

♉ The Taurus III period takes The Natural as its central image. This period can be likened to the time when a fast-maturing child establishes a relationship with society but also wishes to be him/herself without undue societal demands. The onset of puberty means having to accept new sexual changes that are taking place and attempting to develop a more mature attitude, free of shame or stigma. The days that comprise Taurus III reveal the tremendous release of energy that accompanies late childhood. These changes are not only physical but occur in the fantasy and unconscious world as well. Attraction, inhibition and lack of it, rebellion, mischievousness and acting out of unconscious wishes all play their part in this activity. Saying goodbye to childhood may indeed be a painful process, and many children feel the need to withdraw when they are so boldly thrust into the world by their natural drives and development. In the Taurus III period the normally more static nature of Taurus becomes increasingly dynamic, even impulsive, anticipating the energy of the upcoming sign of Gemini.

{May 11 - 18} Those born during the Week of the Natural are highly sensitive individuals who need to be left free to express themselves as directly and naturally as they wish. They do not react well when others try to correct, reform or change their basic habits. These spontaneous, fun-loving, zany people insist on being themselves: indeed, they seem to have no other choice. Yet society can put pressures on them to conform, and they may consequently encounter serious frustrations and obstacles while growing up. Nervousness and neurotic behavior not infrequently result and, in more extreme cases, depressions and acutely repressed feelings.

A Week of the Natural child, like many adults born this week, is generally fun-loving and imaginative, full of fantastic thoughts and colorful behavior. They are drawn throughout their lives to the natural world, in part due to the freedom it represents. In childhood, problems may arise when a parent, sibling, family member or teacher lacks sympathy for their “wayward” behavior and attempts to straighten it out. They often lack the toughness to resist strong criticism, and they can be deeply hurt by a lack of understanding from those close to them. In the long run, however, they may also benefit from any resistance to them, becoming stronger and more capable of dealing with a hostile and critical environment. Leaving home and getting out on their own come early in the life of these people, and even those who seem docile and content often secretly yearn for the time when they can exert their independence. As they grow up, they succeed in finding friends who appreciate them, and rarely will they carry hurtful or revengeful thoughts against childhood adversaries into adulthood. However, they may well retain some scars from childhood battles that, if repressed, can lead to sudden and baffling depressions or emotional outbursts.

It is hard for them to keep a low profile. Craving action and excitement, and often unable to keep their strong opinions on those around them to themselves, they can easily get into hot water. They can be very emotionally volatile, and easily bored—qualities that invariably lead to many changes of friends, lovers and generally of their entire scene. An eternal fascination with the oddball, unusual aspects of life will always threaten to remove them from steadier and more stable situations and individuals. On the other hand, their instability can make them crave the grounding influence of people, places and professions, and for varying periods of time they may doggedly hold on, knowing that to let go could result in aimlessness and lack of direction.

This duality between a natural impulsiveness and a need for stability (often a result of a fear of their own unsettledness) can be the key factor in all of the adult relationships of these folks. Although insecurities abound in their personalities, these can act as a powerful fuel for their drive to succeed in life, rise in their jobs and break through societal barriers. In this sense, paradoxically, their dynamism can itself become a stabilizing force, and their ambition both a rock they can hold to and a compass pointing the way. Thus many of them who might have been satisfied with an enjoyable, unstressed, easygoing life, and better suited to it as well, are driven upward by their own quest for security, frequently a goal involving financial independence. They are, above all, people who create their own challenges.

Although one would imagine that adventure, sex, drugs and all forms of wild behavior would exert a powerful pull on these folks (as they inevitably do at some point in these individuals’ lives), they are not invariably prone to lifelong obsessions and addictions. They are supported not so much by their good sense as by an understanding of the basic nature of these areas of behavior, and this kind of kinship or familiarity allows them to navigate perilous channels without foundering on the rocks.

In relationships, rebelliousness against authority can haunt them their whole life long. Those who enter into relationships with them, moreover, particularly their mates and lovers, risk coming to symbolize for them the repressive forces that they cannot abide. It is essential, then, to be understanding of the battles being waged in the psyche of these people, while at the same time refusing to become a football or emotional punching bag.

Difficulties may particularly surface when they want others to take them seriously—their combination of fantastic ideas and unpredictable behavior is not always conducive to inspiring trust, and they may have to battle long and hard before their ideas are accepted. Still, as with their drive to financial success, fighting over issues like these can give them direction and security.

Successful are those who are able to give form to their fantasy, to embody it in a product, service or artistic activity. Such individuals can strike deep responsive chords in the imaginations of their fellows, who may feel they live in a more humdrum world from which they secretly crave release.In the same way, those born during the Week of the Natural may draw others to them as friends and lovers.

Strengths: Fun-loving, Adventuresome, Imaginative Weaknesses: Obsessive, Rebellious, Frustrated Planetary Ruler: Venus Element: Earth