Taurus

Taurus holds on to what's good and makes it last, at a pace set by the body rather than the clock.

Taurus at a glance

Dates (approximate)
April 20 to May 20
Element
Earth
Mode
Fixed
Ruler
Venus
Opposite sign
Scorpio
Symbol
The Bull

The Sun enters each sign on a slightly different day each year. If you were born on the cusp, the free chart shows which sign is yours.

How Taurus tends to show up

Venus rules Taurus, and here it works through the senses: a good meal, a song on repeat, a soft sweater, sun on bare arms. It's an earth sign, and a fixed one: ground that holds on to what it's given and helps it grow, like a garden that fills in a little more every year someone tends it. Its bull is unhurried and very hard to push.

In a chart, Taurus usually brings patience and staying power. It's the friend who has been ordering the same thing at the same diner for fifteen years, or the coworker who quietly gets through the pile while everyone else panics. What it builds goes up slowly and tends to stay up. Other people often lean on that calm without noticing, and its loyalty, once given, is rarely taken back.

That steadiness can harden into stubbornness when change is overdue. Taurus may hang on to a habit or a way of doing things long after it stops working, since letting go feels like losing ground. Small changes it picks for itself go down easier than one big shake-up. Security can come from within, too, not only from what stays put.