♉ Apr 20 – May 20
Taurus The one who stays
Taurus is a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus, covering birthdays from roughly 20 April to 20 May. It is the sign of value in every sense: what things are worth, what is worth keeping and what a body actually needs. Taurus builds slowly and does not let go.
- Dates
- Apr 20 – May 20
- Symbol
- The Bull
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Fixed
- Ruling planet
- Venus
- Polarity
- Feminine · Yin
- House
- Second house — money, values, the body's comfort
- Body
- Neck, throat and thyroid
- Birthstone
- Emerald
- Lucky day
- Friday
- Lucky numbers
- 2, 6, 24
- Lucky colours
- Forest green, Rose, Earth brown
Strengths
- ✦ Steadiness others can plan around
- ✦ Patience with long projects
- ✦ Excellent taste
- ✦ Practical generosity
- ✦ Calm in emergencies
Weaknesses
- ◦ Resistance to change for its own sake
- ◦ Grudges kept in cold storage
- ◦ Over-attachment to possessions
- ◦ Avoiding hard conversations
- ◦ Comfort turning into inertia
Personality
You are unhurried because hurrying produces work you would have to redo. What looks like stubbornness from the outside is usually accuracy: you have already weighed the thing, and the weighing is finished. Comfort matters to you not as luxury but as evidence that life is going well — good food, good fabric, a home that smells right. You are extremely reliable and quietly immovable, and people underestimate how much of that is deliberate.
Love and relationships
Taurus courtship is slow, physical and sincere. You do not perform interest you do not feel, and once you commit, you stay well past the point where others would have left. Touch is your primary language, closely followed by feeding people. The shadow is possessiveness — treating a partner as something owned rather than chosen daily. Taurus love thrives on ritual: the same walk, the same table, the same Sunday.
Career and vocation
You do best in work with a tangible product and a slow compounding curve: finance, property, food, agriculture, craft, design, music, anything where quality is visible. You resent being rushed and you outlast everyone in the room. Taurus makes a superb second-in-command and a formidable owner, but a restless startup culture will grind on you.
Money
Taurus is the natural money sign, ruling the second house. You are good at earning and better at keeping. The risk is not overspending but over-securing — hoarding to soothe an anxiety that more money never fixes. Balance a strong savings floor with a budget you are allowed to enjoy without guilt.
Friends and family
You are the fixed point in your circle: the house everyone gathers at, the friend who still calls after a decade. You do not collect people, you keep them. Family loyalty runs deep and can tip into carrying relatives who should carry themselves. Taurus parents provide superbly and must resist confusing stability with control.
Health and body
Venus rules the throat, so Taurus troubles show up as sore throats, thyroid issues and a stiff neck built from swallowed words. Your constitution is strong and your habits are strong too, which cuts both ways. Movement you enjoy — walking, gardening, dancing — works far better than a regime you resent.
The dark side
Unhealthy Taurus goes numb. Comfort becomes anaesthetic, the sofa becomes the whole world, and the refusal to move gets reframed as principle. The other tell is silent resentment: a Taurus who has stopped explaining themselves has usually already decided something permanent.
Growth edge
Change one small thing on purpose each month, while nothing is wrong. Voluntary change keeps you from being ambushed by the involuntary kind, and it proves to your nervous system that movement is survivable.
Taurus compatibility
Opposite sign on the wheel: Scorpio·Run a full compatibility report
Questions about Taurus
What are the Taurus dates?
Taurus covers roughly 20 April to 20 May, with the exact boundary depending on the year and your birth time.
Who is Taurus most compatible with?
Earth signs Virgo and Capricorn share the pace and the values, and water signs Cancer and Pisces appreciate the security Taurus offers. Fixed opposites Leo and Aquarius create the most stubborn standoffs.
Why is Taurus considered stubborn?
Because Taurus decides slowly and thoroughly. Once a position has been reached, re-opening it feels like wasting the original work — so new information has to be genuinely new, not just louder.
What does Taurus need in a relationship?
Consistency, physical affection and no sudden reinventions. Taurus reads reliability as love more than it reads passion as love.