Positions
Descendant in Taurus
Modern
With Taurus on your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship. you are drawn to partners who are calm, solid, and reliable, the ones who offer comfort and a love you can lean on. You look across at someone grounded in the body and the tangible, often because that settled steadiness is what you crave in close relationship rather than supply alone. The shadow is choosing for security until the bond turns possessive or stuck, or attracting partners who treat the relationship as property, until you build that steadiness within yourself.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Taurus on the seventh cusp the partner is signified by Venus in her Belonging to the nighttime team in a chart. A nocturnal planet works more smoothly when the chart is born after sunset. house and comes as a settled, sensual, and loyal figure who values comfort, possession, and the keeping of a bond once made. The native seeks a mate who is dependable and gives security, and the union prospers when Venus is well placed and grows possessive or inert when she is afflicted. The open enemy too is stubborn and slow to forgive, so judge the lord of the seventh for both the friend and the foe.
- taurus
- descendant
- steady partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Gives the seventh house to marriage and open enemies, reading the partner from the sign on the cusp and its lord.
- Valens, Anthologies, Book IIAssigns marriage and partnership to the seventh place, judged by Venus and the angle's ruler for the quality of the bond.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Reads the seventh as the partner we seek; a Venus-Taurus cusp wants permanence, sensuality, and tangible security.