Daily Horoscope:

A rush of enthusiasm guides you. Frustration and delays may arise. Persistence is required to overcome obstacles. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your inner transformation. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Aries focus lead to success. Lunar Influence: A crab wielding a torch softness armored with unexpected fire.A tranquil force steadies your pace. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your relationships. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Taurus focus lead to success. This especially affects your relationships. Disruptive practical matterss are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. Lunar Influence: Fresh bread on a windowsill nourishment and nostalgia intertwined.A flurry of thoughts inspires you. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your daily routines. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Gemini focus lead to success. This especially affects your daily routines. Disruptive communications are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. Lunar Influence: A tidepool reflecting the moon shallow waters hold infinite skies.Deep empathy shapes your course. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Cancer focus lead to success. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Disruptive emotional matterss are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. Lunar Influence: The hollow of a seashell echoes of every love that ever mattered.A burst of charisma lifts you. Frustration and delays may arise. Persistence is required to overcome obstacles. This especially affects your creative pursuits. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your home life. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Leo focus lead to success. Lunar Influence: A pearl in a lion's mane fierce pride shelters tender vulnerability.A steady hand drives your actions. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your communication style. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Virgo focus lead to success. This especially affects your communication style. Disruptive detailed works are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. Lunar Influence: A herb garden at dawn order and tenderness root together.Balanced love guides your rhythm. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Libra focus lead to success. This especially affects your values and resources. Frustration and delays may arise. Persistence is required to overcome obstacles. This especially affects your communication style. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Lunar Influence: A porcelain cup of stormwater calm surface, tempest beneath.A resilient spark lights your way. Frustration and delays may arise. Persistence is required to overcome obstacles. This especially affects your values and resources. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your personal expression. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Scorpio focus lead to success. Lunar Influence: Twins in the womb one laughs while the other remembers past lives.A restless spirit defines your day. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your spiritual side. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Sagittarius focus lead to success. This especially affects your spiritual side. Disruptive adventures are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. Lunar Influence: A snail carrying a compass adventure calls, but home clings.A resolute heart drives your way. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Capricorn focus lead to success. This especially affects your social connections. Frustration and delays may arise. Persistence is required to overcome obstacles. This especially affects your spiritual side. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. Lunar Influence: A lighthouse keeper's ledger duty and longing in equal measure.Inventive vibes mark your journey. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Aquarius focus lead to success. This especially affects your career ambitions. Disruptive innovations are likely. Unexpected news or misunderstandings may occur; stay adaptable. This especially affects your career ambitions. Frustration and delays may arise. Lunar Influence: A snowglobe of the ocean contained vastness, swirling mysteries.A soft muse inspires your day. Broad-minded thinking is enhanced. Effective teaching and learning come naturally. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Practical, organized thinking is favored. Concentration and Pisces focus lead to success. This especially affects your beliefs and learning. Disruptive intuitions are likely. Lunar Influence: Two rivers merging no one remembers which was the original stream.

Taurus Birthstone:

The September birthstone, Sapphire is chemically and structurally the same as Ruby - both are varieties of the mineral corundum Sapphires are well known among the general public as being blue, but can be nearly any color except shades of red or pink (since those are called rubies). Sapphire is also the Zodiac stone for the constellation of Taurus the Bull. It is associated with the values of truth, sincerity, commitment, and loyalty.

The blue color is by far the most popular color for sapphire but orange-pink, golden, white, and even black have generated much interest in the gem trade. Tennis bracelets are available that contain a complete rainbow of sapphire gemstones.

Oriented rutile crystal inclusions cause a six-pointed-star light effect (called asterism) to form the popular Star Sapphire.

Sapphires are well known from such places as Sri Lanka and India, and excellent specimens are also found in Tanzania and the Kola Pennensula of Russia. In addition, sapphires are found in many places throughout the world, including North Carolina, Brazil, and China.

Sapphires are extremely durable (only diamond and moisannite are harder). Artificial sapphire crystals are used as the crystal face in genuine Rolex watches, and they are extremely scratch resistant.

Element: Earth
Ruling Planet: Venus
Life Pursuit: Emotional and financial security
Vibration: Determined energy
Secret Desire: To have a secure, happy and wealthy life/marriage.

Description:

Underneath their cool, calm and collected exterior, Taureans differ greatly from all the other signs of the zodiac. Taureans manage to discreetly stay apart from the crowd, even though they have a well-earned reputation for being socialisers. They will let others get close, but only so close as they want them. Some claim that trying to get your point across to a Taurean, should they not want to hear you, is rather similar to talking to the trees – they simply won't budge. And, there is no such thing as an open-book Taurean. Their feelings, fears and desires often run far deeper than anyone around them would guess. Like the butterfly that chooses to remain hidden in its cocoon until it is ready and prepared to emerge, so the true Taurean spirit remains hidden behind a veneer of day-to-day activities. That's why Taureans are sometimes regarded as snobby, withdrawn, boring, or even sulky.

The truth is, when Taureans manage to operate very adequately on their own form of automatic pilot, they can switch off from the world around them very efficiently. And when they do switch off, they are actually gathering in their inner reserves to deal with the outside pressures. This sign is also very closely connected to 'feeling good'. Most Taureans like their creature comforts and hate change because it takes them out of their automatic pilot condition of separating themselves from the world around them.

Because they hate to be put in jeopardy of any kind, this is the sign that strives to create tomorrow in advance, rather than leave it to fate. In love, Taureans are regarded as extremely sensual beings. An earth sign, they deal well with the personal, physical senses and consequently all the pleasures associated with what they can see, touch, smell and taste, add up to a special delight to them. Often nature and pet lovers, Taureans are closely associated with all things off the earth and nature.