As I write this, Jupiter Uranus conjunction is seconds away from their awakening penetration.
It’s a seeding moment.
It’s as if we’re all outside their bedroom cheering them on as they come together in their copulation and fertilize their ideas in the moist soil of Taurus.
I’m using ‘awakening penetration’ on purpose here because these two have, in their different ways, a smack-beside-the-head vibe of waking us up from the rut of our limitations.
As a realm of experience, Taurus is stabilizing and flourishing driven, but its also prone to getting stuck in its own ways and making do, tolerating way past the sell-by-date what others would have dropped off their shoulders long ago.
But with Jupiter and Uranus’ penetrative awakening (alarm ringing, sans snooze button), this cosmic bull inside us is stirred awake – and we’re off to the arena.
Another aspect of Taurus is its materiality.
Of all the signs, it’s the earthiest of the earth signs. It’s about how we engage with the material world: our bodies, senses, and sensuality. It’s about the pleasures of the material world: food, drink, sex, and comfort. Jokingly, I often say to my Taurean clients: “You need a good-quality sofa. This isn’t a whim; it’s a necessity.”
So, while there’s been much hubba-hubba about technology and expansive ideas, compliments of Jupiter and Uranus, let’s not forget where this seeding occurs: Taurus. As a physical sign, aware of material needs and resources. But the dark side of Taurus is ‘not enough.’
There can be an accumulation of matter, a constant drive to get more: money in the bank, clothes, shoes, food, sensual pleasures, and comfort.
The Taurean Minotaur
I’d say this is the Minotaur aspect of Taurus: the physical manifestation of the shame about our insatiable desire.
Minotaur is the offspring of the Minoan Queen Pasiphae, who was cursed to fall into a mad desire for the white bull gifted by Neptune/Poseidon to her husband, King Minos, on the condition that he, in turn, would sacrifice the beast in honor of Neptune. But the king, in his greed, decided to keep the bull instead of sacrificing it in honor of the sea god.
Retribution is a bitch. One doesn’t try to pull one over a god.
It’s Pasiphae who pays the price when Neptune maddens her with an insatiable lust for this white bull.
So she goes after the greatest inventor (here’s a Uranian archetype), Daedalus, to build her a mechanical cow. Then she’d hide inside this mechanical artificial cow and thus be able to copulate with the white bull – satiating her desire.
Out of this unnatural union, the Minotaur is born: half human and half bull – a monstrosity.
But it doesn’t stop there.
To hide this shame, King Minos has Daedalus create an impossible labyrinth where they can secret away this beastly offspring. Yet again, this is another contraption to disguise greed and desire.
Still, this isn’t enough.
A secret must be fed.
Youths are to be sent from subservient cities to the Minoan Kingdom to temporarily satiate the Minotaur’s hunger. In the flower of their youth, young boys and girls become fodder in this never-ending cycle of ‘not enough.’
A travesty of what should have been the original sacrifice of the white bull to Neptune.
Until Theseus is able to get the job done, killing the Minotaur with his bare hands and making it out of the labyrinth thanks to Ariadne’s red thread, which guides him out of this impossible situation. We all need a red thread to get us out of our own labyrinths.
Where are you stuck in a not-enough loop?
Perhaps one of the opportunities of this cosmic event is to stir you awake and release you from the never-satisfied Minotaur of your life.
What shame and insatiable desire have made you a prisoner?
Where do you need to get unstuck?
Jupiter awakens by giving you the opportunity to see your life from a bird’s-eye view and opening you to new possibilities. Opportunity knocks, but you need to answer the door. Remember, ‘comfort zone’ isn’t about comfort—it’s a routine way of doing things that have become stuck.
Now, Uranus is less subtle. It requires radical honesty with yourself because often Uranus has been ‘whispering’ a need to crack your window open for quite some time – but you failed to answer.
But now, as Uranus shatters your window open and hits you beside the head, it feels like a rude awakening. But honestly, you had been feeling the call for a change way back but didn’t answer.
Who said liberation comes softly?
Taurus teaches us to be incarnated in this earthly world, its material pleasures and rhythms. We need the stability it offers to give things time to grow and flourish. But as with anything, seasons change, and we need to move towards another level of experience and consciousness.
Enoughness is an exercise in full delight in the present; without it, nothing satisfies.
It’s also about knowing what we ‘actually’ desire – because we can never get enough of what we don’t really want.
Here, we can benefit from the simple wisdom of a doll: “I’m just Ken”
Maybe a way towards enoughness is embracing the simplicity of ‘Kenergy,’ accepting our ‘just-ness,’ and moving away from the constant drive to be extra, epic, or more, which are all disguises of ‘not enoughness.’
Being ‘just,’ and embracing our “Kenergy” can liberate (thank you, Uranus) us from the insatiable hunger of the Taurean Minotaur and bring focus to the opportunities (here’s looking at you, Jupiter!) available for us to incarnate in our lives what we actually desire (healthy Taurus).
I’m just “Ken” – I’m enough.
