Sabian Symbols · Taurus · Degree 12 of 30
Taurus 12°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A young couple walks along a street, window-shopping.”
THE SYMBOL
“A young couple walks along a street, window-shopping.”
Taurus 12° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Desire, browsed rather than bought: two people looking at what they might someday want, together, with no transaction actually happening yet. This degree is Taurus enjoying appetite itself, the pleasure of imagining ownership before any of it is real, comparing tastes with someone else and finding out, glass pane by glass pane, whether those tastes actually align. There's something tender in it too, a relationship testing its shared future through what it admires rather than what it commits to yet.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real pleasure taken in possibility and shared taste, sometimes well ahead of any actual acquisition. Venus here can indicate a relationship, or a self, that enjoys wanting things together as much as having them. It rewards letting some desires stay in the window a while before deciding which ones you actually walk in for.
What are you and someone you love still window-shopping for, and is it time to go in, or is the looking still doing its work?
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