Your philosophy has to work on a Tuesday
Give a Taurus Mercury the house of Philosophy and abstraction gets tested against ordinary life. An idea about how to live is only interesting to you if it survives contact with a normal week: the bills, the body, the people who have to be dealt with.
That makes your views unusually durable and occasionally unadventurous. What you believe has been through years of practical testing, and it does not move because somebody made an elegant argument at dinner.
The subject takes a decade and that is fine
Real learning arrives for you slowly: the language studied for years, the discipline practised until it is in your hands, the subject returned to across decades. Fast courses leave nothing behind. Choose fewer things and give them far longer than seems reasonable, because what you build this way is unusually complete and nobody who sampled the same material retains any of it.
You travel to stay somewhere, not to see it
Rapid itineraries exhaust you and a month in one place changes you. What you want abroad is the ordinary life of somewhere else: the market, the routine, the food, enough time for the strangeness to become familiar. Plan accordingly rather than accepting somebody else's schedule. Three weeks in one town gives you more than three countries ever will.
Revision meets real resistance
Once a belief has settled, new arguments arrive at a closed door, and the door does not distinguish between a good argument and a pushy one. That immovability has protected you from a great deal of nonsense. Keep one entry condition open: genuinely new evidence gets a hearing, novel rhetoric does not. Stated that way, you can hold your ground without becoming unreachable.
Meaning is in the concrete, not the theory
What actually answers the large questions for you is not doctrine but experience: growing something, making something, a place, a body of work, a long relationship. That is a complete philosophical position rather than a failure to have one. Say it plainly when the subject arises, because it is more defensible than most of what gets argued and it is rarely represented in the room.
Teaching what you have actually done
Your authority comes from long practice rather than from credentials, which makes you the person worth learning from and a poor fit for institutions that count qualifications. Find the route that values demonstrated skill: apprenticeship, workshops, the thing taught by somebody who does it. Charge for the years rather than the hours, because what people are buying is the decade behind the answer.
The people you met abroad, kept for life
Friendships formed away from home tend to last for you, because you do not form them quickly and what you do form does not decay. The person from a trip fifteen years ago is still in your life. That is unusual and it is worth maintaining actively — a message a year is enough, and without it even durable bonds eventually stop being current.
You need to agree about how to live
Shared values matter to you more than shared interests: how money is treated, what is owed to family, what a good life actually consists of. A partner who differs on these will be a permanent low-grade friction whatever else works. Have the conversation early and concretely, in specifics rather than principles, because the specifics are where you will actually discover the disagreement.
The long view is your natural instrument
Money questions that involve decades — property, pensions, what compounds — are exactly the ones you handle well, because patience is the requirement and you have it in unusual quantity. Where you lose out is on anything requiring a quick decision, and you should probably decline those categorically. Play the game you are equipped for and stop apologising for missing the other one.