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Aloha and welcome to your Heart Magic, an illuminating space where psychology, spirituality and heart wisdom meet. Here's your host, dr Bethann Kapansky-Wright. Author, psychologist and spiritual educator.

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Aloha everybody. Welcome to your Heart Magic. This is Dr Bethann Kapansky-Wright, and happy Taurus season. Today we are talking about the archetype of Taurus and what that means how we can use Taurus energy to support ourselves and how we can channel and utilize and make the most of this really fun astrological season. I think all the astrological seasons are fun. They all have their own gifts and they all have their own focal points.

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And when I decided to do archetypes of astrology series and just work our way through each individual archetype in astrology as the astrological wheel turns into that season, I was just like lit up thinking about it, because I really enjoy learning about astrology. I think it is so fascinating and no matter how much I learn, there's always more to dive into. There's always more that I can discover. So it's such an interesting topic for me and I love taking something and making it personal and looking at well, what does that mean for us as individuals? And help me fix my focal point for the next few weeks. I often find right now in the world, with so much going on and so much distraction, so much chatter, so many things that are constantly pulling at us and asking for attention, it can be really hard to hone things in and bring it into a focal point, and so I've often found that working with astrology and working with the phases of the moon is a really organic way for me to have a touchstone that I can keep coming back to and do a check-in with myself and ground myself and work with those energies as a focal point that month and ask questions that often help me hone my focus and come back into my heart, back into my values, back into remembering what I'm about in this world and what I'm creating, and I find a lot of peace and reassurance as well for things that are still works in progress in my life. When I'm not quite sure what to do with those things, I find a lot of reassurance from these bigger archetypes that help me remember that life is a journey and nothing is ever complete. It's always a work in progress, and even when we complete something, we're beginning something else, and so there's this ongoing wheel that keeps spinning. There's always this next chapter, this next phase, and it reminds me to slow down and take a breath and have more grace for the things that feel messy or incomplete in my life, and I hope they inspire you to find a similar grace for your process.

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So, before we dive more fully into Taurus today, I want to share a poem. I wrote this in Revelation of the Sky, and it's passage number 66, and it is called Taurus Season, invites us to fall in love with the earth. Be a creature of naked belonging and sweet vulnerability, who rests in the truth of the trees and the wisdom of the seas and sun's daffodil, joy-filled jubilee inviting us to be receive dream. Believe in the goodness of earth's grace, under faith of new moon's face. Be in soulful union with the beauty of the space.

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When I wrote that, it was in May of 2019, and it was obviously in Taurus season and at the time I decided that I really wanted to better understand astrological constructs, and I find that astrology is a really interesting thing. There is an intuitive part of the practice, but you really can't be intuitive around it if you don't know what everything means. So I just set out to be a good student of astrology and to come to understand what does each zodiac sign mean and what are some of the attributes and characteristics associated with that year. As I was learning more about it every season and every time it was a new sign that the sun moved into. I would write a poem around it to help myself remember what it was about.

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And as Taurus season, the poem in that book states, it's about falling in love with the earth and belonging and this very grounded energy that invites us to consider what do we belong to, what are we rooting into? How do we not only plant seeds where we're standing right now, but how do we water them and what do we want to invest in those seeds so they bloom into something beautiful? So Taurus is really connected to earth energy and it is connected to our roots and pleasure and comfort and material possessions, beauty, the things that nourish us, and I think that is what the archetype of Taurus really inspires us to think about and to tap into it's. You keep coming back to the question of what is nourishing me right now, what is supporting me. Taurus season is a time that we can really look at themes around self-nourishment, sustainability, support and looking at the kinds of things that we need to feel grounded and to feel rooted and to feel like we belong to something and that we are setting up systems in our life that feel cohesive and feel like they are going to sustain us for the long term. So Taurus, unlike Aries, which invites us to be passionate and fiery and Aries says fortune favors the bold and strike while the iron is hot Taurus asks us to take a longer view and to think about if I invest in this right now, how might this sustain me for the weeks to come, for the months to come, possibly for the years to come?

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Taurus is not about running around looking for happiness, searching for everything here and there. Taurus is about planting our heels in exactly where we're at and in nourishing the seeds of joy and happiness and peace and fulfillment, right here, right now, in the ways that we can. And Taurus asks us if we start to identify roots and seeds and systems that we have in place that we do not think are going to sustain us, that we don't like what they're growing into, that we consider the work of getting rid of them and we figure out what to do to weed those out and shift our focus to planting and growing what we really want to see more of in our lives. Taurus invites us to focus on what we want to have bloom into fruition, not what we're lacking, not even so much what we're getting rid of. Taurus would say acknowledge that and just clean it up, do the work to take care of it, but you do not have to over-focus on that. Please put your focus in what it is that you want to grow instead, and if you know that you are not interested in investing any further in something in your life, then clean it up, take care of it, do the work around that, but fix your focus on what it is that you need to feel more nourished, to feel more sustained. So I love that torus invites us to really consider this very homey energy and this very heart-based energy of just asking what do I need to be grounded right now? What do I need to be supported? What do I need to bloom into the most authentic version of myself? And, of course, that extends to the areas in our life like work, life, relationship life, creative life, spiritual life, physical, emotional and mental health, all of those things. And we can extend that question into each of those different categories for ourself and think about what do I need to feel more nourished in this? What do I need to feel supported?

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Taurus is a fixed sign, and fixed signs in the zodiac are signs that typically fall within the middle of the season. They are not the beginning, they are not the ending. They are the middle part where you not only begin something but you put the work in to see it through to completion. So fixed signs tend to be persistent, tenacious. They are again about taking the long view and putting in the steps in order to reach where you want to go. And seeing something through Taurus as a fixed sign can be really stubborn. Taurus is the bull of the zodiac and there is the phrase bullheaded. It is used for a reason, so it can be a sign that not only digs its heels in in positive ways, but sometimes that can happen in shadow ways, where we get really fixed on something or get really stubborn around something.

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But I think being stubborn can be a good attribute when we are applying it to things that we really hold fast and true to in our lives. So when we are working with this archetype and if we are looking at focus on what you want to grow, not so much on what's not going right, then what are you being stubborn about? That you know you are committed to, because fixed signs are about loyalty and commitment as well. They walk the long road, they will go the journey, the full distance, they will go up the mountaintop and on the hero or heroine's journey and reach the destination and go, come back with the knowledge and return all the way to the village. They are the signs of the zodiac that will stick with it. And so what do you want to be loyal about? What do you want to be committed to? Do you want to be loyal to a value? Like I am about love, I am about light. I am investing in hope. I am investing in creativity. Can you be stubborn, stubborn, love? Stubborn about creating joy, stubborn about saying that, no matter what life throws at me, even when I get knocked down, I will find a way to pull things together and to alchemize that and transform and continue to stay committed to my path.

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Taurus asks us to really look at what do we value, what are we nourishing and how are we loyal to that? How are we stubborn around that? How do we dig our heels in and say I insist on this, I insist on creating this in my life. I am committed to this value. Something that I love about this is we get to play with the idea of what are we loyal to, and I think there is wisdom, heart wisdom and discernment in figuring out what is deserving of our loyalty and commitment and what is not. And we always have permission to change. We always have permission to shift how we are attaching our hearts and how we are focusing our energy if we realize we are investing in something and staying committed to something that is not nourishing us and is not committing back to us and is not giving us what we want to receive, what we want to grow, what we are hoping to invest in. So Taurus asks us to consider our worth and to consider value and to really think about the kinds of things that are worth our time, worth our effort, worth our loyalty, worth our commitment and the kinds of things that we value, and ask ourselves why that is. And if something's coming up short and it is not meeting the criteria as something that we feel spirit led to continue to invest in, it's not feeding our hearts, it doesn't feel like an authentic expression of self, it is okay to do the work to clean that up and to clear that out and think about what is more sustainable. What can I invest in instead?

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I think everybody on this podcast knows that I am stubborn and tenacious when it comes to teaching heart, wisdom and love and insisting on joy and all the things I said earlier. Those are Bethann values. Those are things that I continue to come back to again and again. It's a very Bethann thing to say. No matter how much life knocks me down, no matter what happens, no matter how much I might not like what is happening in the world and might not like, sometimes, the circumstances that I see around me Sometimes there's things that are beyond our control I am still going to insist on my right to be here, to take up space, to follow my heart, to be a person of purpose, to keep figuring out what that purpose is and to be a light and hold space for the light and in so doing, awaken the light in others.

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I wrote that mission statement for myself years back. It's in Revelations of the Sky. I was doing quite a bit of soul work at the time. I wrote this book and it is held true until this day. I am committed to that vision and for now it is standing the test of time and I am walking the long road for it and staying with myself. And so you have your own version of that. It might be similar to mine. There might be elements that you really resonate with. It might be something totally different, because you have a completely different soul blueprint, which is wonderful and unique and fabulously you, it's all good and it's all about figuring out what are those things for yourself. And I always say, if you don't know, congratulations, you get to do some self-discovery. What a fun topic to explore and I'm so glad you're here and I'm glad you're listening, and I hope this inspires you to explore it and to start to find your answers to that question for yourself.

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The last thing that I wanted to share is that the archetype of Taurus is an earth sign and, as I said earlier, it really is about being in a romance with the earth, being in love with the earth, falling in love with nature, allowing the earth to support us. So one of the other ways that we can tap into the archetype of Taurus is to stay mindful of our relationship with nature and to be intentional about continuing to cultivate our relationship with nature. It's interesting I was reviewing the notes from the Akashic Quarterly message. It's posted on my website for the second quarter of 2025. And the Akashic Records actually referenced the earth for that quarterly message and they talked about our earth connection and they were talking about it in the context of receiving and knowing that we are enough and, instead of feeling overwhelmed by life right now, focusing on I am enough for these times. I am enough to be creative and resourceful and to continue to figure out my path and opening up to the support that is in abundance all around us from the energetic realms and from the realms of nature. They talked about just being outside and walking on the earth with bare feet or accessing earth energy however you can, if you are not in a place where you can go outside barefoot right now it is winter in some parts of the world but doing what you can to forge your connection with nature and the ways that speak to you, and allowing yourself to feel supported and allowing yourself to feel grounded and allowing yourself to be in wonder. I think nature is this instant portal that, if we observe it, it helps us tap into a space of wonder.

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Today I was just sitting in bed and I was looking out my window and the window just looks out into this big field behind my house and I could see these roosters just wandering around, roosters and chickens just kind of running through the field. We have so many here in Kauai. You see them all the time and it is so easy to take it for granted. Sometimes they're a little bit of a nuisance If you are eating out at a cafe or something and there's plenty around, and they're a little bit of a nuisance if you are eating out at a cafe or something and there's plenty around and they're looking for food and they're begging from you. They can crow at any time of the night and wake you up at two or three in the morning. I don't really mind them though.

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I think they're really fun and really delightful, but they do tend to blend into the backdrop for me, because I'm so used to seeing them, and I was looking out the window today and I just had a moment of taking a step back and having a little bit of a higher vision than just the moment and I thought, oh my gosh, like how cool is this? My view right now is this big grassy field and I can see some palm trees and I can see roosters running around. And it wasn't always true for me. My view used to be Alaska and mountains, and sometimes gray weather and dark sky and sometimes sunny sky. Alaska has different views, but it does not have roosters running around in green fields for no reason at all, just because it's a Sunday in April, and so I just had this moment of just marveling at nature and the delight and the wonder of that moment. And I think that nature is this instant miracle if we want to tap into it and see it, if we can just shift our focus so we can return to a space of awe and wonder. It's always doing something awe-inspiring, it's always doing something wonderful, and if you are not in a part of the world where you have a lot of access to that, if you're in an urban area, or if it is in a winter season or something where nature is not very pretty where you're at right now, then there are just so many ways from using our imagination to looking at someplace beautiful.

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Funny story years ago back in Alaska for a while, my friends and I did beach day once a year and we would do it in January when it was like negative 20 or something outside and like freezing cold. But we would do beach day and there would be like a big screensaver of the ocean with like crashing ocean waves and coconut scented candles We'd bring over like everybody who had a happy light or some sort of like a big bright light would like bring it over. We'd bring beach towels, crank up the heat Sometimes the fireplace would be going to make it really hot and try and serve like tropical foods and things like that. So sometimes you have to be a little bit creative and tap into nature and like, if nature is not readily available to you and the way that you want it bring it to you in some shape or form, at least by a plant, there's always something we can do to tap into that beautiful, wonderful energy. So I want to close today with a poem, and it is called the Nature of Nature and I feel like this really encompasses so much of the energy, of what Taurus season is about about nourishing ourselves, returning to a simpler place, returning to a grounded place, stripping things away and coming back to what we really value and staying mindful of our connection with the earth and our commitment to our hearts.

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And whatever purpose calls to us the nature of nature calls to us. The nature of nature. A tree doesn't run around shouting I am a tree for all to see. Instead, he simply stands his ground, receives the seasons and knows his place in this world.

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A river doesn't go against her own flow or fight the current of where her streams go. Instead, a river leans and bends, allowing herself the freedom to change direction. Flowers don't feel the need to be a sea or a cloud or a crescent moon breeze. Instead, they realize themselves for exactly what they are an open wind-rife and splendid symphony. We can string ourselves out into thousands of pieces, always busy doing, live in fear and believe security equals an amassment of stuff, spin ourselves dizzy with tired circles of worry, and yet nature would teach us the art of being, reminding we were always complete and already enough.

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Happy Taurus season everybody. Thank you so much for joining me in today's podcast episode, and I hope this inspires you this Taurus season to tap into some of the energies around it and feel more grounded, nourished and supported in your journey at this time. I will be back next week with a new episode on psychology, spirituality, heart, wisdom and storytelling. Have a beautiful week and in the meantime, as always, be well, be love, be you and be magic. Be love, be you and be magic.

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