With Taurus rising, Taurus is the sign on the eastern horizon at birth. That depends on birth time, because the Ascendant moves through a sign about every two hours. In whole-sign houses each sign is one house, so Taurus becomes your first house. Its domicile lord, the planet that rules the sign, is Venus, which becomes the lord of the Ascendant. Venus also rules Libra, which would fall in your sixth house, and is exalted in Pisces, the eleventh. Taurus is a feminine, fixed earth sign and the Moon's exaltation, so the Moon's most honored sign is the sign of the horizon. Hellenistic astrologers look first at where Venus stands in the chart. They check the strength of its sign and its aspects by sign, which is one way the tradition tests a planet's condition.