Jupiter in Taurus

A good year, for you, is measured by the cupboard in March, and by how many people you fed from it.

The storm that stays

Jupiter carries a storm called the Great Red Spot, a hurricane wider than the Earth, and telescopes have watched it turning for more than three hundred years. It is the steadiest weather in the solar system. In Taurus, the steady earth sign ruled by Venus, Jupiter’s growth has the same staying power. What you believe, you believe for decades. What you build, you build to be handed on.

Material faith

You trust things that work: good soil, good tools, good food, money saved rather than spent on show. You trust what you can touch. Abstract promises leave you unmoved, but show you a field that has fed a family for three generations and you understand something about the world that no argument could teach you.

Growth, for you, is slow and physical. The garden, the savings, the skill in your hands, the house improved one wall at a time: these are how you get bigger, and they don’t go away.

Giving in kind

Your generosity comes as things. The meal, the jar of preserves, the loan with no deadline, the tools you lent and never asked about. You give comfort as much as help: a warm place to sit, the good chair, the second helping pushed across the table before anyone could refuse it.

Enough

The same growth that fills the cupboard can overfill it. More food, more comfort, more things, until the house is full and the pleasure has gone flat. You can hold on to what you have long after it has stopped serving you, and mistake owning more for being more secure.

Your beliefs, once rooted, are very hard to move, and a new idea has to prove itself in practice for a long while before it earns a place in the house. That makes you loyal and it makes you slow to learn when the world changes.

Years on, people still talk about the evenings at your table, and none of them remembers what was served, only that there was always enough, and then some.