Sun Signs · 2 of 12
What is a Taurus really like?
Taurus, the bull: patient, loyal and immovable once you have decided. The machine's library weighs Taurus heaviest on steady, comfort-loving and stubborn. It is an earth sign, and a fixed sign: you hold the line once it is drawn. The Sun is in Taurus from April 20 or 21 to May 20 or 21.
The Math
Calculated facts only, worked out the same way the machine does it.
- Sun in Taurus: from April 20 or 21 to May 20 or 21. The exact day changes with the year; the machine works it out for your birth date (calculated 1950–2030).
- Cusp days: birthdays from April 19 to 21 (the Aries side) and from May 20 to 22 (the Gemini side) have fallen on the cusp in some years. Without a birth time, the machine names both signs on those days.
- Element: earth. Modality: fixed. Sign 2 of 12.
- Wheel geometry: same element (most compatible): Virgo and Capricorn. Friendly sextile (great match): Cancer and Pisces. Opposite (the magnetic one): Scorpio. Square (least compatible): Leo and Aquarius.
The Machine Says
Lines from the machine's own library, word for word.
How the machine sums up Taurus
- Taurus, the bull: patient, loyal and immovable once you have decided.
- Taurus: you build slowly and nothing you build falls down.
- Taurus, keeper of good things: the best meal, the softest chair, the oldest friend.
Gifts
- You're the calm in other people's storms.
- You do what you said you would, every single time.
- You know how to make a house feel like home in an afternoon.
- You savour things other people rush past.
- Once you commit, earthquakes have tried and failed to move you.
- You finish what others abandon.
Challenges
- Change has to file paperwork in triplicate before you consider it.
- You stay in good-enough far too long.
- Your comfort zone has excellent furniture, and you rarely leave it.
- You confuse "familiar" with "safe".
- You'd rather be right than comfortable, and sometimes rather than happy.
- You treat changing your mind like a defeat instead of an upgrade.