Mars in Taurus

You were the last one to agree to the plan, and three months later you are the only one still working on it.

The farmer’s god

Long before Mars was a god of war, the Romans prayed to it as a guardian of fields, cattle and boundaries, the power that kept the crops safe until harvest. That older Mars lives on in Taurus, and you push forward like someone who plants and waits. You work at a steady pace, you finish what you start, and you measure success by what is still standing a year from now.

Steady pace

You don’t sprint. You set a pace you can keep and you keep it, through boredom, weather and other people losing interest. That makes you formidable over a long distance. The garden gets dug, the savings grow, the house gets rebuilt one room at a time. Whatever takes years rewards you, because you are still there when everyone quicker has left.

Pleasure is part of how you work, and you see no reason to apologise for it. A good meal, a warm bed and hands busy with something real refill you faster than any pep talk.

Wanting with the senses

Your wanting lives in the body: touch, taste, scent, a body warm against yours. You are slow to begin and in no hurry to finish, and you do not understand people who treat it as something to get through.

The stubborn streak

The tradition places Mars in its detriment in Taurus, the sign opposite Scorpio, one of its own. Mars wants to move and Taurus wants to stay, and the result is force held in reserve. You are hard to anger and harder to calm. People mistake your patience for a lack of feeling, until the one time they push past it. Push you and you stop moving altogether, and no argument, however good, will shift you until you decide to shift.

Resentment can build the same way, slowly, under a calm face, until one day the gate you have kept shut for years swings wide open and everyone is surprised but you.

The things you have built are still there, and those who doubted your pace are borrowing them.