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Slow to move and very hard to move back. What gets called stubbornness is usually just that you decided a while ago and nobody noticed.
The basics
Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac, fixed earth, symbol the Bull, ruled by Venus. Fixed earth is the ground holding still. It is the only combination in the zodiac that is built to stay put. Its opposite sign is Scorpio.
When the Sun is actually in Taurus
The Sun enters Taurus on 19 or 20 April and leaves for Gemini on 20 or 21 May. The dates move. A year is about a quarter of a day longer than the calendar admits, and the leap day corrects that in one lump rather than smoothly.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 19th in 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2028 and 2029; the 20th in 2022, 2023, 2026, 2027 and 2030. In 2026 the crossing was at 20 April 01:39 UTC.
Aries comes before it and Gemini after. A birthday on the 19th or 20th of April, or on the 20th or 21st of May, cannot be settled from a list. The year decides it, and in some cases the hour does.
What Taurus is actually like
Taurus is the first fixed sign, and fixed means continuation rather than initiation. You do not start much. What you do is take something that already exists and keep it going long after the person who started it lost interest, which is rarer and more valuable than the trait lists suggest.
Venus rules Taurus, and here it reads as the physical rather than the romantic: texture, food, warmth, a room that feels right, a fabric you keep touching. You are not shallow about comfort. You are accurate about it, and you have noticed that most people are not.
You decide slowly and then the decision is load-bearing. Arguing with a Taurus who has decided is not a negotiation, it is weather. You experience this as being reasonable, because from the inside the deciding felt thorough rather than final.
The part the lists leave out
You will stay in something past the point where you knew. A job, a flat, a relationship, a routine. Not from fear of change but because leaving costs effort now and staying costs effort later, and later is abstract. You are very good at carrying things, and that includes things that should have been put down.
You also do not announce the deciding, so people think they are still in a conversation with you when they are not. That is where the reputation comes from. They were never told the discussion had ended.
Taurus in love
You are steady and physical and you turn up, which makes you easy to rely on and easy to take for granted. You tend not to say the thing because you have shown it, and you assume showing is legible. It is to some people and invisible to others.
Your risk is comfort. A relationship that is pleasant and going nowhere is more dangerous to you than one that is openly bad, because the bad one would make you move. You can be content for years in something that stopped developing, and you will notice late.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If you read that and thought it was about three quarters right, the missing quarter is not an error in the sign. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
The Moon, which is how you are when nobody is watching, moves into a new sign every two and a half days, so two Taureans born in the same week are frequently nothing alike. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
The deciding happens quietly and the announcement never comes. By the time a Taurus is visibly immovable the decision is old, so what looks like refusal is usually a conversation that ended some time ago.
What does Venus ruling Taurus actually mean?
In Taurus, Venus reads as the physical rather than the romantic: comfort, texture, food, a room that feels right. It is the same planet that rules Libra, where it shows up as what happens between people instead.
What are the Taurus dates?
The Sun is in Taurus from 19 or 20 April to 20 or 21 May. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 19th or the 20rd of April has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Taurus?
Scorpio. The axis runs between what is yours and what is shared, which is why it shows up around money, bodies and who gets to know things.
