posted January 01, 2005 08:22 PM            

I finally heard from my Taurus (through email)....my question is, is it odd to ask him his birthday? Would a Taurus find that strange? It sounds totally out of the blue...'how are you? how was your Christmas/New Year's?...sooo, when is your birthday what time were you born?' LOL!! I don't know how to go about it. Some people think it's weird. Especially if they are skeptical of astrology. Just wondering what a Taurus male's reaction might be. any advice would be very helpful.

posted January 01, 2005 09:58 PM            

The birthday is easy enough. Usually during the first few conversations they'll say how old they are, or you can ask if it doesn't seem rude. From there, I can mention something about their bday in relation to a holiday or a family member's bday (even if I make it up) and say, "Oh, you were born in May? My cousin was born on the 15 . . ." and it usually gets brought out from there. Times are a bit tougher, or I'm just not clever enough to figure out how to let them tell me. Maybe if I brought up a birthday time-related story they might feel more obliged to tell their story, to compare, and then it might come out then . . . I don't know--it's a tricky situation.

posted January 02, 2005 03:57 AM              

I have done it. Asked a Taurus man when his birthdate/time is, that is.

We were discussing something totally different and I just threw it into the middle of the conversation. And he answered automatically, without even thinking, and then I changed the topic again, so as not to make a big deal about it. Nothing like the element of surprise .

Then, a few conversations later (which may have been a couple of weeks later), I said, "ah, you were born on the 15 May, weren't you? Do you know what time?

And he was saying, "no, why do you want to know?"

I told him that it was interesting the number of people that didn't know their birth time.

posted January 05, 2005 07:51 AM              

I was wondering the same thing. There must be some sort of formula you could use to work out the time....I thought of googling it to see what I found.

Other than that, you really have to measure them against each ascending sign characteristic and see which one fits best.

Maybe astro-junkie knows a way to determine time???

posted January 05, 2005 07:08 PM              

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I have found that Taurus always think something 'shady' is going on

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You know?.....I believe youre right. I'm always looking at everything from every possible angle. But one would never know it.

lovely lioness,

It depends on what type of Taurean he is. If he's more evolved or not. Some of them are the boring old-fashioned type. The others are pretty f-in' cool. Like me. LOL! If you come right out and ask him, he'll probably blurt it out w/o thinking, if he knows. Or he'll squint at you and ask you why you wanna know. Just ask him. Dont beat around the bush. Just be upfront, because we ALWAYS know what's going on anyway. Even if we act like we dont. We sense shadyness a mile away. We ARE the sign of the senses remember?

posted January 05, 2005 07:35 PM            

I was surprised when he not only gave it to me, he went to astrocenter.com and had a full birthchart analysis done and e-mailed it to me. He loved when I did our synastry / composite charts, our individual charts and put them in this nice folder. We went over it and addressed some of the hard and soft aspects and what they meant to us.

Still..there are times when he would roll his eyes when I would say something..but after being with me for all this time he will even agree and says "You know..that guy I work with is hard to understand..guess because he is my opposite.." LOL...

I also caught him talking to one of his cousins- she is younger and just blurted 'Damn...it says that so and so is not a good match for an aquarian like me". He smiled and said "Well, there is much more to it that your sun. You have to also take into consideration your moon positions and planets like Venus..etc.."

posted January 05, 2005 07:50 PM              

I think with the Taurus guy the gentle conversation manouveur is maybe your best bet. The direct approach may make them a bit suspicious, particularly of anything new to them, and some will think its really weird and dig in their hooves.

Its not dishonesty, if he rumbles you and asks you why - tell him, but in the early days I would go for this method.

Good luck. Not an easy one!!

posted January 05, 2005 07:51 PM              

Hehehe. That's cute. I've noticed the same thing with some of my past boyfriends. They hear me talking about where the planets are and what theyre doing and they say something like, "Hmmm, maybe Jupiter's conjuncting Cancer or something today?" LOL! Makes no sense, but cute that they are thinking about it.

It's cool that your Taurus has an understanding and interest in astrology. Our sign can actually be pretty hip to the new-agey stuff. We're not the old fuddy duddies we're made out to be sometimes.

lovely lioness,

posted January 06, 2005 03:26 PM            

But now I'm worried. I wrote the Taurus and I'm a little disappointed because I haven't heard from him in a few days. He seemed to get back to me pretty quickly and now my Virgo Rising/Mercury paranoia is setting in. I keep thinking whywhyWHY hasn't he wrote me back?! What happened? Sorry, I get panicky...I know it's silly, but I can't help it sometimes. I hope someone understands.

All I can do now is wait....sigh! Help. LOL!
Thank you again for all the feedback, I will let you know if there are any updates.

posted January 06, 2005 03:27 PM            

How are things going? You're right about Taurus- I find them to be either very close minded or very open minded- which is pretty similar to us Saggies. I worked with one that felt that ANY belief other than in oneself indicated the person was a dolt.

My guy has read and researched most religions. He was born Baptist, went Nazarene- then found conventional religion was too strict for his tastes and it didn't agree with his heart. His search led him to Taoism, Buddhism and also Wicca. He is now a bit of it all..sort of a melting pot. He blows me away with his theories - which is something we both strongly agree on- the open-mindedness when it comes to beliefs.

In my heart and his - we both have a strong conviction- mine is more towards conventional Christianity, but with a melding of astrology, shamanism and wicca. His is more Taoist / Buddhist with an addition of the metaphysical (and a dash of christianity..LOL)

It pleases me because when we have kids we will be able to teach them many options and explain why we chose one path versus the other. I hate the old "Because I said so..or Because that is how WE do it" - so Saggie.