Taurus 17

Powerful opposing energies creating a stalemate. Stuck. Struggle. Over laden with daily labors. Fighting until the end. Sustained effort, straining, hurting oneself with over-exertion, creating unnecessary difficulties. Misdirection of effort. Futility. Meeting with resistance, making no progress. Salmon swimming upstream. An inability to go with the flow, going against the forces of nature, contrariness. Unpopularity or a fall from previous popularity, an ability to resist the flattery of fair-weather friends.  Caught in a Sisyphus like routine with no reflection on its purpose. Working without achievement. Seeming to work in vain, while having the patience to accomplish something big after a long life of no outwardly visible progress or gains.  A split between using power & strength versus using reason & intelligence. The conflicting compulsions of necessity and desire, or a struggle between physical realities and higher inspirations. Trying to put one's passions at the service of the spiritual will. The failure of shallow thinking or easy solutions to solve deeply entrenched problems.  Stubbornness, refusal to acknowledge blind spots. Polarizing issues, information wars, arguments over ideals that lead to battles and war. A holy war, crusades, inquisitions, battling evil forces, projecting onto your adversary, inner conflict. Controlling those around with rational or brute force rather than with inner enlightenment or knowledge. Great power and strength to deal with heavy karma or fate. Someone who can withstand the hardest tests.Support the show