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This book would be remiss not to mention the obvious and point out that two of the world’s worst dictators and greatest war criminals of all time were born under the sign of the Bull. Representing Taurus’s incredibly deep well of pig-headed stubbornness and total inflexibility are Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Warning: this is what can happen if a Taurus’s control freak tendencies are allowed to run wild.

Many famous world rulers, both past and present, are simply full of Bull. Catherine the Great, the famous empress of Russia, was a Taurus, along with Hirohito, the emperor of Japan during and after World War II. More recent Taurus royalty includes Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who ruled up until 1980, and Queen Elizabeth II, who still holds the throne of the United Kingdom.

Some of the greatest political philosophers—thinkers who changed the world with their ideas— were of the Tauri class. Of course there’s Karl Marx, who wrote The Communist Manifesto and spurred the communist revolution in both the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. Then there’s Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli who, in his work The Prince, produced friendly little gems like, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both,” and, “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” Machiavelli and Marx were both so popular they got an “—ism” added after their names to encapsulate their ideas. Less revolutionary, but no less impactful, the Taurus-born philosophers and logicians that have lived include Søren Kierkegaard, Bertrand Russell, Immanuel Kant, and Kurt Gödel.

Many stars—or Hollywood royalty, if you will—also fall under the sign of the Bull and, for better or worse, they’re probably just as important to today’s society as the royal and political classes are. The dukes of drama, George Clooney, Al Pacino, and Jack Nicholson, are all Tauruses, along with relative newcomers Robert Pattinson and Channing Tatum. Lady Bulls in showbiz include classic stars Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn, as well as established, talented beauties Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cate Blanchett, and Renée Zellweger. Rule on in good faith, O Hollywood Royalty.