Earth · Fixed
Taurus
April 20 – May 20
Quick facts: Taurus is sign 2 of 12 in the tropical zodiac. Dates: April 20 – May 20. Element: Earth. Modality: Fixed. Ruling planet: Venus. Symbol: The Bull. Opposite sign: Scorpio.
- Dates
- April 20 – May 20
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Fixed
- Symbol
- The Bull
- Ruler
- Venus
- Polarity
- Yin
- Opposite
- Scorpio
Taurus is the fixed earth sign that follows Aries. The usual dates run from about April 20 to May 20, after the equinox rush has settled into something you can plant. Where Aries starts, Taurus stays. The sign's question is not 'can this begin?' It is 'is this worth keeping, and can I feel the value of it in my actual life?'
Venus rules Taurus, but not the dinner-party Venus people paste onto Libra. This is Venus as appetite, craft, money, land, music, and the peace of a body that has what it needs. Fixed signs hold. Earth signs deal in the tangible. Together they produce a person who is often underestimated because they are not performing urgency. They are measuring whether a thing is real.
The shadow is the same muscle. A Taurus can protect a good life so hard that it becomes a stall. They may call it loyalty when it is fear of losing the familiar, or call it taste when it is a refusal to be inconvenienced. Opposite Scorpio, Taurus has to learn that some value is not a possession. Shared money, intimacy, and other people's emergencies will ask them to let go of control without letting go of their standards.
Printed date ranges are the common window. The Sun changes signs at a precise moment. If you were born on the first or last day, use the sign calculator.
Strengths
Follow-through with a body
Taurus can do the unglamorous repetitions that make a skill or a business real. They trust proof over pitch decks.
A calm nervous system, when resourced
Fed, rested, and not rushed, a Taurus is one of the most stabilizing people in a room. Other signs borrow that steadiness.
Taste that is specific
They know what they like and they can usually tell you why in concrete terms: the fabric, the price, the way a song sits in a room. That specificity is a kind of intelligence.
Where it snags
No as a lifestyle
Stubbornness protects them from bad ideas and also from necessary ones. A Taurus can lose a year defending a decision they have already outgrown.
Comfort as avoidance
The couch, the routine, the familiar restaurant. None of these are moral failures. They become a problem when they are how Taurus refuses a conversation.
Slow anger
They do not flare like Aries. They endure, then they are simply done. People around them sometimes never heard the no, because it was said quietly for months.
Love
Taurus loves through consistency and the senses. They want a person who shows up, eats with them, and does not treat affection as a negotiation that restarts every morning. Grand speeches matter less than a hand on the back and a plan that survives a boring month.
They can be possessive, not always from jealousy, often from a wish to keep a good thing from being casually rearranged. A partner who disappears into ambiguity will make them grip harder. A partner who is loyal and also free — who has a life and comes home — lets Taurus relax.
The slow start is real. They are not impressed by heat on night one if the practical life looks careless. Once they choose, they are difficult to move and worth the wait. Virgo and Capricorn often understand the pace. Cancer and Pisces can meet the tenderness. Scorpio, the opposite, is the intense mirror: magnetic, and not simple.
Career
Taurus belongs near things that compound: craft, food, design, finance, land, music, beauty, operations, anything where quality is the product and not a slogan. They are strong with money when they are allowed to build rather than gamble. A volatile sales floor can work if the commission is real and the product is something they respect.
They hate being hurried by someone else's panic. A manager who confuses urgency with importance will get a polite wall. A manager who sets a clear standard and then leaves them alone will get work that lasts. Taurus is often the person still there after the rebrand, holding the part of the business that actually makes money.
The career risk is staying in a well-paid rut because leaving would disturb the life they built around it. Security is the point of the sign, right up until the security is funding a job that has gone dull. The grown-up move is a planned change, not a dramatic exit.
Friendship
Taurus is the friend who remembers how you take your coffee and will help you move apartments without making it a performance. They prefer a small circle and repeat rituals: the same walk, the same table, the same people. New friends get in slowly.
They struggle with friends who cancel casually or treat plans as optional. Flakiness reads as a lack of respect, because time and comfort are the love language. They also need friends who will tell them when loyalty has turned into stubbornness. The right friend can say 'you have outgrown this' without being exiled.
Health, as tradition and as a habit
Tradition gives Taurus the throat, the neck, the voice, and the pleasures of the body. This is symbolism, not a medical claim. The pattern worth noticing is physical: they feel stress as tightness, appetite, or a refusal to move, and they recover through rhythm more than through inspiration.
A steady meal, a walk that is not a punishment, and sleep that is not negotiated away will do more than a heroic cleanse. Taurus gets into trouble when comfort becomes the only medicine, or when they ignore a body signal until it is loud. Pleasure is part of health for this sign. So is stopping before the second helping that was about the day, not about hunger.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. See the disclaimer.
People born with the Sun here
Adele
1988-05-05 · Singer, born May 5, 1988 in London.
George Clooney
1961-05-06 · Actor and filmmaker, born May 6, 1961.
David Beckham
1975-05-02 · Footballer, born May 2, 1975.
Audrey Hepburn
1929-05-04 · Actor, born May 4, 1929 in Brussels.
Dwayne Johnson
1972-05-02 · Actor and wrestler, born May 2, 1972.
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Questions people ask
When is Taurus season?
Roughly April 20 to May 20. The exact ingress moves slightly each year, so birthdays on the cusp should be checked by the Sun's actual longitude.
What rules Taurus?
Venus, in the earthy sense: appetite, craft, money, beauty, and loyalty to what feels solid. Taurus is fixed earth.
Are Taurus people stubborn?
Often, yes. The same fixed quality that makes them reliable makes them slow to abandon a position. It is a strength until the position is outdated.