Taurus — The Bull
An earthy, Venus-ruled sign, Taurus is the settled, grounded energy of late spring. Because it is fixed rather than cardinal, tradition reads it as steady and enduring — slow to start, but hard to move once settled. In astrology it is tied to the senses, patience, and a love of comfort, beauty, and the material world. It is often described as the most reliable of the signs, valuing security and the pleasures of the everyday.
What tradition gives Taurus
- Traditionally linked to patience and reliability
- Associated with a love of comfort and beauty
- A sign of steadiness in tradition
The myth underneath
Linked to the bull form Zeus took in the myth of Europa.
Tradition pairs Taurus most easily with Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer — a folk pattern about temperaments, not a rule about people.
When the Sun is actually here
Across a century of computed positions, the Sun holds Taurus from about April 20 to May 20.
The edges, honestly
Sign boundaries are not fixed calendar dates — the Sun's ingress moves by a day or so from year to year. Computed across 1930–2030, these dates near Taurus's edges belong to different signs in different years:
| Date | Usually | Sometimes |
|---|---|---|
| April 20 | Taurus in 68% of years | Aries otherwise |
| May 21 | Gemini in 72% of years | Gemini otherwise |
Born on one of these dates? The year decides. Compute your chart and the question closes in a second.
The Sun is one placement of ten
A Taurus Sun says nothing about your Moon, your rising sign, or where the rest of the sky sat. The free calculator draws the whole wheel — on your device, in a second.