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Taurus personality, love and compatibility The sign that builds to keep.

Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac, a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus. It usually runs from 20 April to 20 May. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Virgo and Capricorn, and its hardest are Leo and Aquarius.

Taurus people take their time, and what they choose they keep: homes, friendships, habits, grudges. They are the zodiac's steadiest sign and its hardest to move once it has decided.

Dates
20 April to 20 May
Element
Earth
Mode
Fixed
Ruler
Venus
Symbol
The Bull
Opposite
Scorpio
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Taurus on the zodiac wheelTaurus sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Virgo and Capricorn; sextiles to Cancer and Pisces; squares, the friction, to Leo and Aquarius; and the opposite sign is Scorpio.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Taurus and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Personality

Taurus is patient until the day it is finished

Taurus is a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus, and it lives through the senses. Good bread, a warm room, a familiar voice, clothes that feel right: a Taurus notices comfort and builds a life around it. They work steadily, save for things, and usually own at least one object they have had for twenty years.

Their patience is real, and it has a limit. A Taurus will absorb a long run of small provocations without comment and then close the matter for good, which surprises people who mistook calm for agreement. Change is the hard part. Even a good change costs a Taurus something, and they need time to let it settle before they trust it.

CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Taurus sits where earth meets fixed. It shares its element with Virgo and Capricorn and its mode with Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius.

At their best

Loyal, calm in a crisis, practical, sensual, and reliable in the plain sense: when a Taurus says they will be there at eight, they are there at eight.

Under pressure

Stubborn, possessive, slow to forgive, and inclined to dig in simply because someone pushed. Comfort can turn into a rut they defend.

What they need

Security they can touch, time to decide, and people who do not rush them. Give a Taurus a deadline with no reason and watch it slow down.

Taurus dates

Born on 19 or 20 April? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Taurus in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Taurus on

  • 19 April22 of 91 years
  • 20 April69 of 91 years

It moved on into Gemini on

  • 20 May24 of 91 years
  • 21 May67 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

Love

A Taurus in love takes a long time to arrive and then stays

Taurus courts slowly: dinners, walks, the same café twice, and a long look at whether you are steady. Affection is physical and practical. They cook for you, fix your chair and remember how you take your tea, and those things matter more to a Taurus than speeches.

Once committed, a Taurus is among the most faithful partners in the zodiac. The danger is possessiveness, and a habit of treating the relationship like property that should never change. Partners do best when they bring gentle novelty and give Taurus enough warning to get used to it.

Compatibility

How Taurus gets on with each of the twelve signs

Taurus's easiest matches are Virgo and Capricorn, the other two earth signs, which sit in trine. Cancer and Pisces, a sextile away, come next. Scorpio, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Leo and Aquarius.

  1. VirgoTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Virgo's care for detail and Taurus' steadiness make a practical, quietly devoted couple that rarely has to explain itself.

  2. CapricornTrine, 120°Easy flow

    The most stable pairing Taurus has. Capricorn's ambition and Taurus' patience build something lasting: a home, a business, a long life together.

  3. CancerSextile, 60°Open door

    One of the warmest matches Taurus has. Cancer brings feeling, Taurus brings patience, and both want a home worth coming back to.

  4. PiscesSextile, 60°Open door

    Pisces dreams and Taurus makes the dream habitable. Gentle and romantic, as long as Taurus does not try to organise every feeling.

  5. ScorpioOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    The strongest pull on the whole wheel for Taurus. Both are fixed, both are loyal, both hold on: deep when it works and a contest of wills when it does not.

  6. TaurusSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Taurus build a comfortable, faithful, well-fed home. Trouble starts when they disagree, because neither will be the one to move first.

  7. AriesSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Aries wants to go now and Taurus wants to think about it. Taurus can ground Aries and Aries can shake Taurus out of a rut, once they agree on the pace.

  8. GeminiSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Gemini talks, changes plans and gets bored; Taurus listens, keeps plans and stays. Charming for a while, and then a question of whether Taurus can live with the flux.

  9. LibraQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Venus rules both, so both love beauty. Libra lives in ideas and people, Taurus lives in the body, and the gap between them is pleasant work to bridge.

  10. SagittariusQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Sagittarius wants the next horizon and Taurus wants the same view. They enjoy each other and want different lives unless they find a shared rhythm.

  11. LeoSquare, 90°Friction

    Both are fixed signs, so both are stubborn. Leo wants applause and Taurus wants peace, and the standoffs last as long as the attraction.

  12. AquariusSquare, 90°Friction

    Aquarius wants to change the system and Taurus wants to keep it. Two unbending views, and a lot of respect if they get past the first argument.

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From the book

What the reading says when Taurus turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Taurus

You build slowly, and you keep what you build.

People trust you because you do not change your mind for sport. When you say you will be there, you are there, and the same is true of your opinions, your friendships and your furniture. You have a body-level sense of what is real: good food, warm rooms, work you can hold in your hands. You are the person others come to when they want the ground to stop moving.

The risk is comfort. You mistake the familiar for the right, and stay too long in the job, the town or the relationship that stopped growing years ago, because leaving would mean uncertainty and uncertainty is the one thing you cannot stand. Your growth is a deliberate discomfort chosen on purpose, once a year, before life chooses it for you.

Chapter 3Moon in Taurus

You need steadiness: the same mug, the same person, the same walk.

Change costs you more than you admit. Your nervous system is calmed by repetition, touch, good food and the certainty that tomorrow looks like today. When life is loud you go quiet and slow, and people mistake it for stubbornness.

It is regulation. You are finding the ground.

The strength here is enormous: you are the person others lean on because you do not fall over. The risk is that you defend a comfort long after it stopped being good for you. Let the people who love you introduce change in small doses, and notice that you survive every one of them.

Chapter 6Venus in Taurus

You love slowly, physically, and for keeps.

Venus rules Taurus, and here it is at home: warm, sensual, loyal, and unhurried. You show love with your hands and your presence: the meal, the touch, the fact that you are still there. You want a partner you can count on and a life that feels good to live in. Once you choose, you rarely un-choose.

The risk is possessiveness dressed as devotion, and staying long past the point where the relationship stopped feeding you, because leaving is change and change is the thing you fear most. Love that lasts is your gift. Make sure it is also love that grows.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Taurus gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Taurus too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.
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Taurus is one placement, and the book reads eight

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Taurus a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Taurus questions, answered

When are the Taurus dates?

Taurus usually runs from 20 April to 20 May. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Taurus on 19 April in 22 years and 20 April in 69 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Taurus most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Taurus's easiest matches are Virgo and Capricorn, the other earth signs, followed by Cancer and Pisces. Scorpio, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Leo and Aquarius are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Why are Taurus so stubborn?

Taurus is a fixed sign, which in astrology means it holds rather than starts or adapts. Once a Taurus has weighed something, changing course feels like losing the time they spent weighing it. Give reasons and time instead of pressure, and a Taurus will move.

What does a Taurus need in a relationship?

Steadiness they can count on: consistent plans, physical affection, honesty about money, and a partner who shows up the same way on a Tuesday as on a birthday. Reliability wins a Taurus over faster than grand gestures.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.