Hercules 2nd Labour (Taurus)...

STORY: Hercule's second labour was to free a holy bull captured from Crete's king Minos and inprisoned in a large prison build like a maze called labyrinth. In this labyrinth the bull wondered around and could not find his way out and there he would remain inprisoned until Minos would decide to sacrifice him to the Gods. This bull had to be freed from labyrinth, without Hercules losing his way too in the labyrinth and should be guided to a holy place where he would be guarded by three cyclopses. The three Cyclopses names where Vrontos, Steropis and Argos and their names in ancient greek ment thunder, lightning and whirpool. Indeed Hercules managed to capture the bull after chasing him inside labyrinth. It was very difficult to capture him cause the labyrinth was very complicated but the holy bull had a light shining over his head which guided Hercules and helped him to trace the bull. Once he had captured the bull he had to take control over him in order to guide him to the holy place he was meant to go. It wasn't easy to control the bull. He had to ride him and manage to stay on top of him in order to be able to guide him over the journey. At last he managed this too and finally he brought him to the three cyclopses waiting at the holy place.

SYMBOLS: In this story symbols and behaviours that are related to the sign of Taurus are to be seen. The bull symbolizes the animal nature we all hide inside, which is robust and stuborn (as are Tauruses too) and has to be controled and given guidance. A bull is also the symbol of fertility and sexual drive. This drive is usually on the loose without guidance and needs to be controled. Control means guidance not suppression. This is a very important difference. The bull has to be delivered in tact to the holy place, so must the sexual energy be retained, not suppresed, but guided to serve for more noble purposes. The bull does not only stand for sexual energy, he also stands for mater and material things. The bull shows all our material needs and the hunger we have inside that usually is either loose or fanatically restrained. The need is to find the way to control this needs and demands of our body, why can't do without anyway in a way that is neither too strict nor too loose. We have to use common sence. The Taurus person's challenge is exactly that. To use common sence in order to bring the material demands into the holy place of its spirit. This spirit in the form of the tree cyclopses (giants with just one eye - the so called third eye of intuition) represent the tree forms of the spirit (like the Holy Trinity). Vrontos is the thunder (father) Steropis is the lightning (Holy Ghost) and Argos is the Whirpool (Son). To generalize the symbol of Taurus even more we can say that it in charge of personal needs in general, needs that a Taurus person needs to control in order to put them under the general interest. A Taurus person needs to overcome his stuborness in claiming personal bemefits and use his/her stuborness to pursue general goals instead. The general interest here is meant in means of material or survival issues, not ideals or love. A Taurus person's challenge is to take care of the family, the state, the group instead of just himself. This is the first step the human has to take in order to exceed him/herself and to submit to the divine guidance. In the next stable signs (Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) the same challenge will appear in another form (for example in Leo it is pride that has to be sumbitted whereas in Taurus it is posessiveness). This is more or less what Alice Bailey is telling us about the sign of Taurus.

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Vas

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