Assur/Ashur was often depicted as a winged bull (with a bull's or man's head). Right at the time I was connecting deeply with him and posting about him (in his current 5D soul aspect form as Arnap, brother of Ashtar) ISIL militants broke into the Mosul Museum in Iraq and destroyed the statues in there - including drilling the faces off the winged bulls of Ashur - and then bulldozed Nineveh, the old Assyrian capital. This was exactly at the time the 'Divine Bull' energy was inflowing strongly - the lower masculine 'control' energy reacting against it, albeit subconcsciously. From a galactic/star family point of view, the Bull energy is connected with the constellation Taurus, especially its alpha star Aldebaran (the Eye of the Bull), and the star systems Hyades and Pleiades within it, and from the closely related system of Alpha Centauri, within the constellation Centaurus - Cen-Taurus means 'new bull' (the new bull being a centaur - formerly, some civilizations described Centaurus as a bull). The horseshoe (of the horse/centaur) was seen in ancient Egypt as the Door of Life...and came down through later cultures as a sign of good luck...
The astrological symbol for Taurus, the stylized bull's head (the masculine) is also the Bow or Crescent of the feminine on the Ring of Life, so its a merged whole energy:
http://www.cafeastrology.com/images/taurussymbol.jpg
'Ashtar', or more fully, Ash'Ta'Hor, means the Hour that brings the energy - of the Tree of Life to land ('Ta' is land, base, foundation, 'Hor' is hour, time), in other words, a soul that anchors/lands the Life energy, in Divine Timing. The Ahura are with us, Novusod, many of them - may humanity see and feel them again, free of distorting beliefs, ego projections, or religions old and new....