What are the Taurus dates?

In the tropical zodiac, the Sun is in Taurus from about April 20 to May 20, the settled middle of northern spring. The boundary shifts by about a day year to year, so cusp births need a calculated chart. Indian sidereal astrology places Vrishabha, its Taurus, from roughly mid-May to mid-June.

What element and mode is Taurus?

Fixed earth: the element of matter and result in the mode that sustains. It is the zodiac's most stable combination, supreme at keeping, enduring and finishing, and correspondingly resistant to hurry and change. Its earth siblings are Virgo (mutable) and Capricorn (cardinal).

Which planet rules Taurus?

Venus, in her earthy expression: the Venus of the senses, gardens, food, music and touch, as distinct from her airy, partnership-minded rulership of Libra. The Moon is additionally exalted in Taurus, at the third degree, making the sign the traditional home of emotional steadiness.

What are typical Taurus traits?

Bright side: patience, reliability, sensuality, calm, productivity and loyalty, the gift of making things last. Shadow: stubbornness, possessiveness, complacency and difficulty releasing what has ended. As throughout astrology, these describe how planets placed in Taurus behave, most visibly the Sun, Moon or ascendant.

What is the myth behind Taurus?

Two, from two eras. Babylon's Bull of Heaven was the beast Ishtar loosed on Gilgamesh, slain by the hero in the epic, and stood in the star lists centuries before the zodiac. Greece retold the figure as Zeus in the form of a white bull, carrying the princess Europa over the sea to Crete.

What does Taurus rule in the body?

The neck and throat, including the voice: the second station in the zodiacal body that runs from Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet. Traditional medicine read throat ailments here, and astrologers have long noted the strong voices that accompany prominent Taurus placements.

What does a Taurus rising (ascendant) mean?

The world is met calmly, steadily and through the senses, with first impressions of solidity and unhurried warmth. Venus becomes the chart's ruler, so her sign, house and aspects colour the whole life, a Taurus rising with Venus in Pisces reads very differently from one with Venus in exacting Virgo.

Who is Taurus most compatible with?

Tradition looks first to the earth signs, Virgo and Capricorn, and to the water signs Cancer and Pisces, with opposite-sign Scorpio as the deep, difficult mirror. But sign pairs are the shallowest layer of compatibility: real synastry compares whole charts, and this platform treats compatibility as self-understanding rather than verdict.

Why is the Moon exalted in Taurus?

Because the changeable Moon steadies best on firm ground: the tradition's image for feeling that finds security. The placement descends from the Babylonian 'secret places' scheme and is fixed at the third degree; the Moon in Taurus is proverbially the calmest lunar position in the zodiac.

What is special about the stars of Taurus?

The constellation carries the Pleiades cluster on its shoulder, Babylon's calendar 'Stars', and red Aldebaran, one of the four Persian royal stars, as its eye. The sign is a thirty-degree segment distinct from the star picture, but no sign inherits richer stellar lore, and Vedic astrology's favourite lunar mansion, Rohini, sits at Aldebaran.

The second sign ♉

Taurus, the Bull

After Aries strikes the spark, Taurus builds the hearth. Fixed earth ruled by Venus, home of the Moon's exaltation, the Bull is the zodiac's principle of holding: body, ground, appetite, property, patience. Its figure is among the oldest in the sky, the Bull of Heaven that Gilgamesh fought, wearing the Pleiades on its shoulder and red Aldebaran for an eye.

Apr 20 – May 20: tropical dates
Earth: element
Fixed: mode

The sign in twelve facets

One sign, read from every side: its ancestry, its rulers, its season, its body part, its myth and its meanings in the chart.

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The Bull of Heaven

the ancestor GU4.AN.NA

Babylon's Bull of Heaven is one of the sky's oldest figures: the beast the goddess Ishtar unleashed on Gilgamesh, slain by the hero and his friend Enkidu in the epic. It stood in the star catalogue MUL.APIN and passed into the zodiac with its horns, and its grudges, intact.

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The bull who swam

the myth Greek dress

Greece told of Zeus as a white bull, so beautiful and gentle that the princess Europa climbed onto his back, whereupon he swam her across the sea to Crete and named a continent. Seduction by comfort, strength wearing calm: the sign's method, told as a story.

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Spring, settled

the season the middle of spring

Taurus holds the middle of spring, when the season stops arriving and simply is: blossom, warmth, growth thickening toward fruit. The sign inherits that settled abundance, the year's first stretch of pure increase, with nothing to launch and everything to tend.

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Fixed earth

element & mode the holder

Earth that holds: not Virgo's sorting workshop or Capricorn's climbing structure, but the field itself, fertile, bounded, owned. Fixed earth is the zodiac's most immovable coordinate, supreme at keeping, enduring and finishing, and constitutionally allergic to being hurried.

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Ruled by Venus

the ruler the garden Venus

Venus rules two signs, and Taurus is her earthy home: not Libra's Venus of judgement and partnership but the Venus of orchards, skin, music and meals. She gives the Bull its sensuality and charm, and its conviction that pleasure is not a distraction from life but its point.

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The Moon exalted

the honoured guest the 3rd degree

The Moon is exalted in Taurus, at the third degree, a placement straight from Babylon's 'secret places.' The logic is felt at once: feeling steadies where ground is firm, and the changeable Moon finds in the Bull's pasture the security she spends the whole zodiac seeking.

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The Pleiades and Aldebaran

the stars the eye of the bull

The Bull carries the sky's most famous cluster, the Pleiades, on its shoulder, Babylon's 'Stars' par excellence, calendar-markers in MUL.APIN, and red Aldebaran for an eye, one of the four royal stars of Persian tradition. Few constellations are this rich, or this old in the record.

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The neck and throat

melothesia Taurus rules the throat

Second sign, second station of the body: Taurus governs the neck, throat and voice. The old medicine read sore throats and thyroid troubles here, and astrologers still note how often strong Taurus placements come with memorable voices, the Bull bellows beautifully.

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Taurus in the chart

the placements Sun, Moon, rising

The Sun in Taurus identifies with stability and builds a life like a wall, brick by brick. The Moon in Taurus, exalted, is the zodiac's calmest: fed, grounded, slow to upset. A Taurus ascendant meets the world unhurried, and hands the chart to Venus. Any planet here slows, steadies and sensualises.

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Vrishabha, the Vedic Bull

in Jyotisha sidereal dates

Jyotisha keeps the Bull as Vrishabha, Venus-ruled with the Moon exalted, running sidereally from mid-May to mid-June. Within it lies Rohini, the Moon's favourite mansion, red Aldebaran itself, which concentrates the sign's themes of beauty, fertility and increase.

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Scorpio, the mirror

the polarity keeping and letting go

Opposite the Bull stands the Scorpion: possession against transformation, comfort against crisis, the held against the shared. Taurus accumulates and Scorpio strips away, and each is the other's cure, the Bull teaching the Scorpion peace, the Scorpion teaching the Bull that nothing is kept forever.

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The Taurus vocabulary

the keywords light and shadow

Bright side: steadfast, patient, sensual, reliable, productive, calm. Shadow side: stubborn, possessive, complacent, slow to release what has ended. The work of the sign is telling holding from hoarding, and peace from mere comfort.

The sign of holding

Taurus is the zodiac's second sign and its first consolidator. Where Aries begins, Taurus establishes: fixed earth ruled by Venus, exalting the Moon, holding the settled middle of spring. Everything the sign touches turns toward substance, body, ground, food, money, comfort, craft, and toward duration, for the Bull's deepest instinct is that what is good should be kept. In the chart it stands for the capacity to stabilise, to persist and to enjoy, and its lessons run the other way: how to move, how to release, how to tell peace from stagnation.

The oldest beast in the sky

The Bull may be the most ancient figure in the zodiac. As the Bull of Heaven it appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh, sent by the insulted goddess Ishtar to ravage Uruk and slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, an offence for which Enkidu pays with his life. The same Bull stands in the Babylonian star catalogue MUL.APIN, leading the old year when its rising once marked the spring equinox, and passes into the zodiac's twelve with horns intact, as this compendium's Babylonian pages document. Greece re-dressed the beast as Zeus in disguise: the white bull whose gentleness lured the princess Europa onto his back before he swam her to Crete. The two myths disagree charmingly about whether the Bull is wrath or seduction; the sign, tradition suggests, is capable of both, provoked or courted.

Fixed earth, ruled by Venus

As fixed earth, Taurus is the most immovable coordinate on the wheel: earth's substance in the mode that holds. Its earth siblings sort the element's labours, Virgo refines, Capricorn structures, Taurus simply has: the field, the herd, the store, the body at ease. Venus's rulership decides what the having is for. This is the earthy Venus of gardens, skin, meals and music rather than Libra's airy Venus of judgement and partnership, and she makes the Bull the zodiac's great sensualist: unhurried, tactile, loyal to pleasure as a value and not merely an indulgence. The combination yields the sign's famous patience and its famous stubbornness, which are, as Taureans quietly know, the same trait viewed from different sides of a disagreement.

The Moon in her pasture

Taurus hosts the Moon's exaltation, fixed by tradition at the third degree and descending from the Babylonian 'secret places' catalogued on the first horoscopes page. The doctrine's logic is almost physiological: the Moon, fastest and most changeable of the lights, governor of feeling and need, steadies wonderfully on firm ground. The Moon in Taurus is proverbially the calmest placement in the zodiac, fed, comfortable, slow to alarm, and the exaltation states the sign's gift in one image: security is what lets feeling rest. The Bull's shadow states the cost: rest too long defended becomes refusal to move at all.

Stars of the Bull

Few constellations are as rich as the Bull's. On its shoulder rides the Pleiades, the sky's most famous cluster, Babylon's 'Stars' plain and simple, whose risings calibrated the calendar in MUL.APIN and whose name opens many an omen; for its eye it wears Aldebaran, the red giant counted among Persia's four royal stars, watcher of the east. The sign, as always, is not the constellation, the zodiac page explains the difference, but no sign inherits more stellar prestige, and Vedic astrology concentrates the theme by placing Rohini, the Moon's favourite lunar mansion, at Aldebaran in the sidereal Bull.

Taurus in the chart

The Sun in Taurus identifies with stability: such people build lives the way masons build walls, and their strength and limitation alike is that they do not easily change course. The exalted Moon in Taurus feels in long, steady waves and needs comfort, food and ground to process anything. A Taurus ascendant meets the world without hurry and gives the chart to Venus, whose sign, house and aspects then set the tone. Mercury in Taurus thinks slowly and concludes firmly; Venus here, at home, loves through the senses and keeps what she loves; Mars in Taurus, in detriment, is slow to ignite and immovable once lit. Any planet in the Bull gains endurance and loses haste.

The mirror of Scorpio

Taurus' axis runs to Scorpio, and it is the zodiac's lesson about possession. The Bull keeps; the Scorpion transforms. One builds security from what is held, the other power from what is shared, merged or surrendered; one fears loss, the other fears stagnation. Traditional astrology encodes the exchange: Venus is in detriment in Scorpio, the Moon in fall there, while Mars, Scorpio's ruler, is in detriment in Taurus. Each sign matures by importing the other's medicine, the Bull learning that release is not ruin, the Scorpion learning that peace is not death. Between them they hold astrology's economics: having and letting go.

How to read this page

The cards above give the sign's twelve facets: ancestry, myth, season, element and mode, ruler, exaltation, stars, body, chart placements, the Vedic parallel, the polarity and the working vocabulary. For the sign's ruler and honoured guest, see Venus and the Moon in the planets library; for the system entire, the twelve signs library; for the deep history, the Babylonian pages on MUL.APIN and the zodiac. Taurus and its eleven companions are part of the Tarot Academy compendium in all fifty-two languages.

Frequently asked questions

: In the tropical zodiac, the Sun is in Taurus from about April 20 to May 20, the settled middle of northern spring. The boundary shifts by about a day year to year, so cusp births need a calculated chart. Indian sidereal astrology places Vrishabha, its Taurus, from roughly mid-May to mid-June.
: Fixed earth: the element of matter and result in the mode that sustains. It is the zodiac's most stable combination, supreme at keeping, enduring and finishing, and correspondingly resistant to hurry and change. Its earth siblings are Virgo (mutable) and Capricorn (cardinal).
: Venus, in her earthy expression: the Venus of the senses, gardens, food, music and touch, as distinct from her airy, partnership-minded rulership of Libra. The Moon is additionally exalted in Taurus, at the third degree, making the sign the traditional home of emotional steadiness.
: Bright side: patience, reliability, sensuality, calm, productivity and loyalty, the gift of making things last. Shadow: stubbornness, possessiveness, complacency and difficulty releasing what has ended. As throughout astrology, these describe how planets placed in Taurus behave, most visibly the Sun, Moon or ascendant.
: Two, from two eras. Babylon's Bull of Heaven was the beast Ishtar loosed on Gilgamesh, slain by the hero in the epic, and stood in the star lists centuries before the zodiac. Greece retold the figure as Zeus in the form of a white bull, carrying the princess Europa over the sea to Crete.
: The neck and throat, including the voice: the second station in the zodiacal body that runs from Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet. Traditional medicine read throat ailments here, and astrologers have long noted the strong voices that accompany prominent Taurus placements.
: The world is met calmly, steadily and through the senses, with first impressions of solidity and unhurried warmth. Venus becomes the chart's ruler, so her sign, house and aspects colour the whole life, a Taurus rising with Venus in Pisces reads very differently from one with Venus in exacting Virgo.
: Tradition looks first to the earth signs, Virgo and Capricorn, and to the water signs Cancer and Pisces, with opposite-sign Scorpio as the deep, difficult mirror. But sign pairs are the shallowest layer of compatibility: real synastry compares whole charts, and this platform treats compatibility as self-understanding rather than verdict.
: Because the changeable Moon steadies best on firm ground: the tradition's image for feeling that finds security. The placement descends from the Babylonian 'secret places' scheme and is fixed at the third degree; the Moon in Taurus is proverbially the calmest lunar position in the zodiac.
: The constellation carries the Pleiades cluster on its shoulder, Babylon's calendar 'Stars', and red Aldebaran, one of the four Persian royal stars, as its eye. The sign is a thirty-degree segment distinct from the star picture, but no sign inherits richer stellar lore, and Vedic astrology's favourite lunar mansion, Rohini, sits at Aldebaran.

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