Taurus
The builder: patient, sensual, unshakeable.
Taurus is steady ground in a restless world. Ruled by Venus and rooted in earth, you build beautiful, lasting things with your hands and your patience, and you refuse to be rushed. Comfort, loyalty and the pleasures of the senses matter to you because they're real, the things you can actually touch. Your strength lives in stillness.
Taurus Sun, Moon & Rising
What each of the Big Three means in Taurus.
With your Sun in Taurus, your core self is patient and unwavering. You move slowly and surely toward what you want, and once you commit, whether to a person or a purpose, you don't let go. Your gift is endurance; your lesson is that not everything worth keeping can be held in your hands.
A Taurus Moon finds emotional security in the tangible: comfort, routine, good food and the steady presence of people you trust. You're slow to rattle and even slower to let go. Calm is your native climate, and you give others a place to land.
Taurus Rising projects calm stability. People trust you on sight because you seem grounded and unshakeable, and there's a quiet sensual warmth to how you move through the world.
Taurus personality traits
Strengths
- Remarkably reliable and steady
- Devoted in love and friendship
- Patient long-term builder
- An eye for beauty and quality
- Calm in a crisis
Growth edges
- Loosening the grip on what's gone
- Welcoming change instead of bracing against it
- Knowing when stubborn becomes stuck
- Asking for help
Taurus in love
You love through the senses and through time: touch, devotion, shared comfort, showing up year after year. You need security to open fully, and once you trust someone you are loyal to the bone.
Check your compatibility →Taurus at work
You excel where patience and quality compound: finance, food, design, craft, anything you can build and keep. You outlast everyone, and your steadiness is the thing teams quietly rely on.
Taurus is a Earth sign. Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) are grounded, practical and build things that last.
Taurus compatibility
How Taurus matches with every sign in love and friendship.
Taurus FAQ
Quick answers to the most-asked Taurus questions.
What are the Taurus dates?
Taurus season runs April 20 – May 20. If your birthday falls in this window, your Sun sign is Taurus.
What element and planet rule Taurus?
Taurus is a Earth sign with Fixed modality, ruled by Venus (Yin · receptive).
What is the Taurus personality like?
Taurus is steady ground in a restless world. Ruled by Venus and rooted in earth, you build beautiful, lasting things with your hands and your patience, and you refuse to be rushed. Comfort, loyalty and the pleasures of the senses matter to you because they're real, the things you can actually touch. Your strength lives in stillness.
What are Taurus's strengths and weaknesses?
At their best, Taurus is remarkably reliable and steady, devoted in love and friendship, patient long-term builder. Growth edges include loosening the grip on what's gone, welcoming change instead of bracing against it.
Who is Taurus most compatible with?
Taurus's highest matches are Virgo (92%), Capricorn (92%), Cancer (85%). It tends to connect most easily with other Earth signs and with signs that balance its fixed energy.
What is Taurus like in love?
You love through the senses and through time: touch, devotion, shared comfort, showing up year after year. You need security to open fully, and once you trust someone you are loyal to the bone.
This is Taurus in general. What about you?
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