Taurus, degree by degree
Each of the thirty degrees of Taurus: its image as Marc Edmund Jones published it in 1953, quoted and credited, and the same image as this house words and draws it. To read the degrees your own planets stood in, cast your Sabian reading.
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Taurus 1 · degree 31 of 360
A clear mountain stream Jones, 1953
A clear stream running down from the mountains ours
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Taurus 2 · degree 32 of 360
An electrical storm Jones, 1953
Lightning splitting a dark sky over the hills ours
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Taurus 3 · degree 33 of 360
Steps up to a lawn blooming with clover Jones, 1953
Steps climbing to a lawn thick with clover ours
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Taurus 4 · degree 34 of 360
The rainbow's pot of gold Jones, 1953
A pot of gold where the rainbow comes to earth ours
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Taurus 5 · degree 35 of 360
A widow at an open grave Jones, 1953
A woman in mourning beside a freshly dug grave ours
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Taurus 6 · degree 36 of 360
A bridge being built across a gorge Jones, 1953
Builders reaching a bridge out across a deep ravine ours
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Taurus 7 · degree 37 of 360
A woman of Samaria Jones, 1953
A woman carrying her water jar to the village well ours
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Taurus 8 · degree 38 of 360
A sleigh without snow Jones, 1953
A sleigh standing on bare ground, waiting for snow ours
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Taurus 9 · degree 39 of 360
A Christmas tree decorated Jones, 1953
A Christmas tree hung with lights, gifts piled beneath it ours
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Taurus 10 · degree 40 of 360
A Red Cross nurse Jones, 1953
A nurse in uniform, a red cross on her sleeve ours
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Taurus 11 · degree 41 of 360
A woman sprinkling flowers Jones, 1953
A woman watering a bed of flowers ours
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Taurus 12 · degree 42 of 360
Window-shoppers Jones, 1953
Passers-by stopping to gaze into a shop window ours
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Taurus 13 · degree 43 of 360
A man handling baggage Jones, 1953
A porter hoisting a load of suitcases ours
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Taurus 14 · degree 44 of 360
Shellfish groping and children playing Jones, 1953
Crabs on the shore and children playing in the shallows ours
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Taurus 15 · degree 45 of 360
A man muffled up, with a rakish silk hat Jones, 1953
A man wrapped up against the cold, his tall hat cocked to one side ours
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Taurus 16 · degree 46 of 360
An old man attempting vainly to reveal the Mysteries Jones, 1953
An old sage holding out his book before a closed curtain ours
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Taurus 17 · degree 47 of 360
A battle between the swords and the torches Jones, 1953
Swords clashing with blazing torches ours
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Taurus 18 · degree 48 of 360
A woman holding a bag out of a window Jones, 1953
A woman leaning from a window, holding out a bag ours
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Taurus 19 · degree 49 of 360
A newly formed continent Jones, 1953
New land rising out of the sea, still steaming ours
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Taurus 20 · degree 50 of 360
Wind clouds and haste Jones, 1953
Wind driving the clouds, and a man hurrying on beneath them ours
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Taurus 21 · degree 51 of 360
A finger pointing in an open book Jones, 1953
A finger finding its place on the page of an open book ours
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Taurus 22 · degree 52 of 360
White dove over troubled waters Jones, 1953
A white dove flying over a rough sea ours
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Taurus 23 · degree 53 of 360
A jewelry shop Jones, 1953
Gems and pearls laid out on a jeweller's counter ours
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Taurus 24 · degree 54 of 360
A mounted Indian with scalp locks Jones, 1953
A rider on horseback, one arm raised high ours
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Taurus 25 · degree 55 of 360
A large well-kept public park Jones, 1953
A well-kept park with its trees, a fountain and a bench ours
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Taurus 26 · degree 56 of 360
A Spaniard serenading his senorita Jones, 1953
A man singing to his guitar beneath a balcony window ours
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Taurus 27 · degree 57 of 360
A Native American woman selling beads Jones, 1953, reworded here
A craftswoman sitting beside the beads she has strung, offering them for sale ours
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Taurus 28 · degree 58 of 360
A woman pursued by mature romance Jones, 1953
An older suitor following a woman, a flower in his hand ours
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Taurus 29 · degree 59 of 360
Two cobblers working at a table Jones, 1953
Two shoemakers at one bench, working side by side ours
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Taurus 30 · degree 60 of 360
A peacock parading on an ancient lawn Jones, 1953
A peacock spreading its tail beside an old column ours
Jones’s images are quoted from Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (New York: Sabian Publishing Society, 1953), first printing; public domain in the United States. Ours, and every drawing, are this house’s own, worded and drawn from that text alone.