Within the depth-psychology corpus, Taurus functions as far more than a zodiacal designation; it operates as a locus where archaic mythic energies, psychological typology, and the problematics of instinctual possession converge. Liz Greene furnishes the most sustained analytical treatment, reading Taurus through the mythic figure of the Minotaur, the Minos cycle, and the ambivalent pairing of Hephaistos and Aphrodite—a marriage that encodes the sign’s constitutive tension between earthy coarseness and aesthetic grace. Greene’s historical exemplars (Hitler, Lenin, Marx, Queen Elizabeth II) crystallize Taurus’s dual potential for tyrannical hoarding and stable stewardship, a dialectic rooted in the Campbellian figure of the tyrant-monster. James Hillman approaches the bull from an imaginal-poetic angle, recovering archaic etymological strata—the bull as first letter, as cosmogonic force, as the astrological zone shared by Moon and Venus—and insisting that imagination itself is grounded in bull-energy. Sasportas reads Taurus functionally across house placements, noting its qualities of constancy, possessiveness, and sensory grounding as they manifest relationally. The sign’s Venus rulership connects it systematically to Aphrodite-mythology, and its opposition to Scorpio generates a structural polarity that several authors treat explicitly. Together these voices position Taurus at the intersection of eros, power, materiality, and the unresolved tension between divine mandate and personal appetite.