Aries-Taurus cusp

The cuspsal regions at the borders of adjacent signs are controversial, invoking considerations of marginality, liminality, and plain old binarism. Although the word usually denotes a precise demarcation, I like to use it to describe the range of relationships, from antithesis to blending, which exist between adjacent zodiacal signs, a range that implicitly permeates even the purest expression of a unitary sign, in a mode of Hegelian negation. As the tropical and siderial zodiacs approach to complete overlap, many new and penetrating truths are cuspal in nature.

The tragic sacrificial splendor of the corrida ritualizes the zodiacal crisis of Self, where Aries encounters Taurus: freedom-craving spirit encounters material necessity, the armed hero against the obdurate World. The bull is color-blind, and it's the movement that he reacts to; it is the human participants in the corrida who react to the red color. More red even than the capote is the copious blood, the blood-soaked hide, that makes the point. The next, Taurus / Gemini, cusp is summond in the gesture of the stinging picadors and the banderillos, or the legend of the gadfly. The fixed earth principle provokes attack from both sides --

  
SEEING RED: A Study in Consciousness (2006) by Aries-born neuro-philosopher Nicholas Humphrey. Red is of course the color of Mars and Aries, blood etc, as covered at astrodreamer. squarespace.com/Ariess.