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The Sun in Taurus

Taurus is fixed earth, ruled by Venus. This page covers what that means for the Sun, how often it happens, and when.

  • Sun
  • Taurus
Element
Earth
Modality
Fixed
Ruler
Venus
Dignity of the Sun
No essential dignity in the traditional scheme
Last in Taurus
until 21 May 2026, 00:36 UTC
Next in Taurus
from 20 April 2027, 07:17 UTC
Next visit lasts
about 31 days

How common

1 in 12

8.33% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Sun in Taurus.

within noise of an even split of 12

In plain words

  • Sun in Taurus

    In Taurus, the Sun expresses itself in a steady, unhurried way.

Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.

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What does the Sun in Taurus mean?

  1. What the Sun governs

    The Sun expresses itself

    Astrologers treat the Sun as the body that expresses itself. It does that in every sign; the sign changes only the manner.

  2. What Taurus adds

    In a steady, unhurried way

    Taurus is a fixed earth sign. Fire, earth, air and water are the four elements; earth is classically cold and dry. Modalities group the signs by their place in a season: fixed signs sit in the middle of a season. Its ruler is Venus. Traditional astrology gives the Sun no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Taurus.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 12

    Sun in Taurus: 8.33% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; within noise of an even split of 12.

How common is the Sun in Taurus?

How common is the Sun in each sign?

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Sun in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

When is the Sun in Taurus?

Sun in Taurus, last pass
ended 21 May 2026
20 April 2026, 01:39 UTC to 21 May 2026, 00:36 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Taurus, next pass
from 20 Apr 2027
20 April 2027, 07:17 UTC to 21 May 2027, 06:18 UTC (about 31 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Taurus

    20 Apr 2026 → 21 May 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  2. Sun in Taurus

    20 Apr 2027 → 21 May 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  • Each year the Sun is in Taurus from about 19–21 April to 20–22 May (UTC dates, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 13:26 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

How do different traditions read the Sun in Taurus?

AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.

Hellenistic

The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

The Sun in Taurus sits in a feminine, fixed earth sign. The tradition gives the Sun no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall there, so Hellenistic astrologers find no strong dignity to report and look to other factors. Domicile is the sign a planet rules, its home. One is gender and sect: the Sun is a masculine, day-team planet and Taurus is a feminine sign, a partial match the tradition weighs rather than condemns. Sect is the tradition's way of sorting the planets into a day team and a night team. Taurus is also where the Moon is exalted, so the Sun stands as a guest in the Moon's honored sign. The next planet to consult is Venus, Taurus's domicile lord. Venus never wanders more than about 47° from the Sun, so it is usually in this sign or within two signs of it. You can check where it was against any ephemeris.

A note on “detriment”: the early Hellenistic texts note a planet opposite its own sign without naming it. The term is defined only in late and medieval sources, and scholars disagree on whether the idea was implicit earlier.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I
  • Vettius Valens, Anthology, Book I
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Checked sign element, modality and gender, domicile, exaltation, detriment and fall against the project data and Ptolemy, plus sect and sign relationships; all consistent. gender/sect match claims rest on Ptolemy and a secondary source. Detriment is stated as a table fact where it appears; its Hellenistic status is disputed (secondary source only). Source works confirmed to exist and to treat the topic (Valens Book I opened; others via secondary pages).

Sources consulted

Modern psychological

The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Taurus is the second sign of the zodiac, a fixed earth sign with negative polarity. Modern psychological astrology reads a Sun here as an identity organized around what is steady, tangible and earned. Fixed earth is associated with persistence, a preference for pace over speed, and a sense of self tied to the senses and to material security. The tension these authors describe is resistance to change: the constancy that sustains long effort can harden into holding on after a situation has moved. Hellenistic astrologers give the Sun no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Taurus. They read such a Sun by sect (day or night chart), house, aspect and Venus, the sign's ruler. Modern psychological texts mostly lean on the sign far more than that technique does.

Sources

  • Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope (1992)
  • Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)
  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I (dignities and sect)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Sign/element/modality, ruler and dignity claims checked against the project reference data and Wikipedia; the per-sign tendencies attributed to modern authors are confirmed only against popular secondary descriptions. Narrowed the Hellenistic "no rank" wording to "no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall" so the claim matches the four dignities checked. Replaced "They do not read it by the sign" with the sign ruler Venus, since Hellenistic readers do use the ruler.

Sources consulted

  • Sun: domicile Leo, exaltation Aries, detriment Aquarius, fall Libra; Moon: domicile Cancer, exaltation Taurus, detriment Capricorn, fall Scorpio en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
  • element, modality, polarity of each sign; classic vs modern rulers (Scorpio Mars/Pluto, Aquarius Saturn/Uranus, Pisces Jupiter/Neptune); modern element and modality keywords en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
  • Greene and Sasportas, The Luminaries (Weiser, 1992) exists and treats the psychology of the Sun and Moon in the horoscope books.google.com.au (opens in a new tab)
  • popular modern descriptions of the Sun in Aries to Virgo and their stated tensions (impatience, rigidity, scatter, moodiness, need for recognition, self-criticism) cafeastrology.com (opens in a new tab)
  • diurnal/nocturnal charts by the Sun above/below the horizon; Sun, Jupiter, Saturn diurnal and Moon, Venus, Mars nocturnal; sect weighed heavily by Hellenistic astrologers en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
  • Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (CRCS, 1975) exists and takes an elemental approach to psychological interpretation archive.org (opens in a new tab)
  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos Book I covers planetary natures (incl. diurnal/nocturnal), the zodiac, rulerships and configurations en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

Where they differ

Hellenistic astrology reasons from technique: essential dignity, sect and configuration by sign. Modern psychological astrology reasons from element, modality and the planet's function. They start from different questions, so the same placement can read differently, and neither reading is the verdict. Both use the tropical zodiac here.

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