Taurus 99To him the inner lord is adorned by the crescent Moon
(Chandrase-khara). Mula Prakriti is his mother. She is also
adorned by the Moon on her head (Ra-ja Ra-je-swari). Then
the bull of this sign becomes his vehicle. He attains the
level of the father of Kuma-ra (The Father in heaven, of the
son as Saviour on earth).
Taurus governs cattle and agriculture. Clay, which
is the mother of forms through moulds, is governed by
this sign. The atoms of silica and copper come under the
rulership of this sign. The annual ritual of ‘the path of the
bull and the cow’ (Gava-mayana) belongs to this sign and
the High Priest who conducts the ritual, bears the head-
gear with two horns curving towards one another in the
form of a crescent. The converging horns belong to this
sign and the diverging horns belong to Aries. The
numerical potency of number six comes under this sign.
Venus, the lord of love and beauty through forms, is the
ruler of this sign for all those who are in the planetary-
level. For those of the individual-level, Mars is the ruler
of this sign. In the personality-level Mercury is its ruler.
To the man of the soul-level, the ruler is Moon. To those
of the cosmic and the supra-cosmic levels, lord Soma is its
ruler. Some astrologers are of the opinion that Vulcan is
the ruler of this sign in the cosmic levels.
Enjoyment, satiation, happiness, pleasure, and bliss
come under this sign. It is the first of the fixed signs, and
gives the nature of fixed ideas, impressions and sustained
effort to those who are born under this sign. The disciple
of Ra-ja yoga can very easily use this trait to achieve his
final goal of merging his consciousness in the supra-
cosmic plane. The linking oneself up with Pleiades and
the Great Bear in the building up of the higher bridge
which is called Antahkaran.a is achieved by the disciple. If