posted January 07, 2009 08:34 AM            

It is used in the chart.It is the center, just how would we relate it by aspects to the other planets.

posted January 07, 2009 09:14 AM              

i don't see virgo having much role as being ruled by mercury. i mean, i think mercury boosts intelligence equally in gemini in virgo, but maybe they are just different styles?

i think maybe virgo and taurus, are just the earthy versions of the air signs. thats my opinion. although honestly i hardly see much 'venus' in taurus atall.

to me thats like saying capricorn is the co ruler of sun, i just don't see it atall.

i noticed most the guys are voting libra instead of tuarus for venus, and women voting taurus for venus.

posted January 07, 2009 10:43 AM              

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes
http://www.hermograph.com/science/mercury2.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/hermesmercurymyth/ss/Hermes122108.htm

Hermes was playful, restless, naughty, a thief and a tricky messenger. Some of his offsprings were:
Pan [a satyr]
Hermaphroditus
Priapus
Eros
Tyche [meaning "luck"]

If we look into Hera's myth, there are many parts that fit in the Taurus-Scorpio polarity.

posted January 07, 2009 10:46 AM              

Hathor is always represented with horns as we know is associated with Taurus. Just my insight.

Taureans are some of the most beautiful people i know inside and out.

posted January 07, 2009 10:56 AM              

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Aphrodite had no childhood: in every image and each reference she is born adult, nubile, and infinitely desirable. Aphrodite, in many of the late anecdotal myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband. Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war. She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Sparta to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her—which is Aphrodite's realm.

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posted January 07, 2009 03:13 PM            

Wow, I might be a dumb arse but has anyone ever noticed something with the horoscope and the rulers, as follows:

Start with Leo - the Sun(5th)

then Moon(for Cancer)

then the next two either side of Sun, Moon
are the Mercurys(Gemini, Virgo)

then the next two the Venuses

then the two Mars(Old ruler Scorp)

then the next are the Jupiters(Pisces, Sag)

and then the horoscope is completed with the two Saturns(Aquarius and Capricorn, old ruler for Aqu)

What a pattern! and in order from the sun, with Earth of course in the centre.

Yeah, earlier I posted in this thread about dual rulership of a sign but I should have correctly said co-rulership...it got me thinking.

posted January 07, 2009 03:25 PM            

What about this idea:

venus attracts its possessions.

Taurus builds/ works for its. Those would be two differnt types of energy.

posted January 08, 2009 03:26 AM            

Like Lex Luthor in the Superman 2 movie who wants Australia. I'll take 'em.

posted January 09, 2009 01:16 AM              

The only complaint I have...I would like to know more about Vulcan (h55 @ Astro) I know physically its never far from the Sun. Vulcan will never be more than one sign ahead of your Sun, I THINK. (wouldnt it be nice if Venus did that? ) I think in an individuals chartits more important to look at the ASPECTS Vulcan makes.

posted January 09, 2009 01:20 AM              

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All bovine beings are divine as far as I'm concerned, and make good eatin'

Tauruses are just yummy

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