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Welcome to Taurus Season

Welcome to Taurus Season

You Are Allowed to Want What You Already Have

Aries season ends the way it always does: in a blaze of initiation energy, half-finished momentum, and the residual heat of every plan you set in motion. It is a season of starting. It leaves you vibrating.

Then Taurus arrives. And the first thing it asks of you is something radical in a world that worships forward motion:

Stay.

Stay with what you have. Stay with what you built. Stay with the body you woke up in this morning and the kitchen you have cooked a thousand unremarkable meals in and the life that is not new anymore. Stay with the version of your reality that is already happening.

This is harder than it sounds. Because so much of the noise around growth and self-improvement has spent years training you to believe that wanting what you already have is settling. That contentment is complacency. That if you are not reaching for the next thing, you are stagnating.

Taurus knows better.

 The Most Misunderstood Season

Illustration for Welcome to Taurus Season

What Taurus Season Is Actually For

Five Practices for Taurus Season

1. The Inventory of Enough

2. A Meal Cooked Slowly

3. The Walk Without a Destination

4. Touch Something Real

5. The Same Thing, Again, On Purpose

The Quiet Act of Staying

You are allowed to want what you already have. You are allowed to find it sufficient.

Comments

Lindsay
LindsayApr 20
I needed to hear this. Thank you.
Shaina Cheatwood
Shaina CheatwoodApr 20
Reading this as I lie on my kids’ trampoline and watch the fluffy clouds float across the blue sky, listening to the birds sing, like I did when I was a kid. Taurus season feels like an exhale. Like, ok the fire’s been built, now the work is watching and tending it 🥰
Katie Byers
Katie Byers @Shaina CheatwoodApr 21
The last one I wrote I actually used cloud watching for the visuals!
Alex
AlexApr 21
Landed
Katie Byers
Katie Byers @AlexApr 21
This is my favorite type of comment.
Steele
SteeleApr 21
Ready and willing to be. Thank you.
Jonathan
JonathanApr 21
🙏
Rebecca
RebeccaApr 21
Needed this framing today. So very grateful 🙏. Thank you for bringing me right back here. ♉️
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Sanni🌱🪲🦢
Sanni🌱🪲🦢Apr 21
This is amazing. I needed this, thank you so much. You are very skilled writer!💚
Katie Byers
Katie Byers @Sanni🌱🪲🦢Apr 22
Thank you for your kind words!
MileHighCityWitch ♐️ ♎️ ♊️
MileHighCityWitch ♐️ ♎️ ♊️Apr 21
LOVE this piece! Thank you! Reminded me of a favorite quote: You will dream the dream of living the life, you are actually living today. Alan Watts
MileHighCityWitch ♐️ ♎️ ♊️
MileHighCityWitch ♐️ ♎️ ♊️Apr 21
This too: ‘Happiness is wanting what you have, not having what you want’.
Katie Byers
Katie Byers @MileHighCityWitch ♐️ ♎️ ♊️Apr 22
Thank you for these! Definitely adding them to my commonplace!