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Check for free.",[13,16,19,22,25,28,31],{"label":14,"value":15},"Dates","20 April – 20 May",{"label":17,"value":18},"Element","Earth",{"label":20,"value":21},"Modality","Fixed",{"label":23,"value":24},"Ruling planet","Venus",{"label":26,"value":27},"Symbol","The head and horns of the bull ♉",{"label":29,"value":30},"Opposite sign","Scorpio",{"label":32,"value":33},"Polarity","Yin \u002F emphatically receptive",{"element":35,"modality":36,"ruler":37,"opposite":38},"earth","fixed","venus","scorpio",[40,43,46,49,52],{"heading":41,"body":42},"Character","Taurus people rest within themselves like hardly any other sign. As a fixed earth sign, Taurus combines groundedness with stamina: it decides slowly, but once it has decided, it stands firm – as reliable as a season. Its relationship with the world is sensual and concrete: Taurus grasps life quite literally with its hands, through taste, touch, sound and beauty. Haste is foreign to it, because it knows instinctively that growth takes time. This composure is contagious: in the presence of a Taurus, agitated situations often calm down by themselves. Its need for security is pronounced – not out of anxiety, but because a stable foundation is, for Taurus, the precondition for enjoying and giving.",{"heading":44,"body":45},"Strengths & shadow sides","Among the strengths of Taurus are patience, loyalty and practical wisdom: it keeps going where others give up, and takes on responsibility without making a fuss. Its shadow sides grow out of holding on: perseverance can become stubbornness, a love of security can become possessiveness, a capacity for enjoyment can become inertia. Changes imposed from outside are experienced by Taurus at first as a disruption of its order. Its theme for growth lies exactly here: to distinguish which holding on sustains and which is merely habit – and to accept change as a natural part of the growth it understands so well.",{"heading":47,"body":48},"Love & relationships","In love, Taurus is loyal, sensual and constant. It does not fall in love in passing – but when it does, it is with the intention of staying. It shows affection tangibly: through closeness, care, shared pleasures and the quiet reliability of being there. Anyone who lives with a Taurus gets a home in the best sense. Its area for learning in relationships is the open hand: closeness that turns into a tight grip smothers what it wants to hold. Mature Taurus love combines commitment with generosity – it holds without holding on.",{"heading":50,"body":51},"Work & calling","Professionally, Taurus is the master builder: it creates structures that hold and values that grow – whether in a craft, in design, in handling resources or anywhere quality comes before speed. Short-winded changes of strategy and constant upheaval drain it; continuous responsibility gives it wings. Colleagues value its calm in a crisis and its reliability day to day. Its area for growth: openness to new methods and the experience that its worth does not depend on what it owns, but on abilities that nobody can take away.",{"heading":53,"body":54},"Mythology & symbolism","The bull is one of humanity's oldest symbolic animals: from the cave paintings of Lascaux and the sacred Apis bull of Egypt to Zeus, who approached Europa in the form of a white bull and carried her across the sea – fertility, strength and constancy in a single image. Astrologically, the Taurus season falls in high spring, when nature keeps its promises: what the Aries impulse set in motion now takes shape and becomes tangible. That is what Taurus stands for – the “I have” that turns ideas into reality.",[56,59,62,65],{"q":57,"a":58},"Which element does Taurus belong to?","Taurus is an earth sign – like Virgo and Capricorn. Earth signs stand for practicality, substance and reliability. As a fixed sign, Taurus is the keeper among them: it secures and cultivates what already exists.",{"q":60,"a":61},"Who is a good match for Taurus?","Traditionally, the earth signs Virgo and Capricorn and the water signs Cancer and Pisces harmonise well with Taurus. The opposite sign Scorpio brings depth and tension to the connection. What ultimately matters is the interplay of both complete birth charts.",{"q":63,"a":64},"Which planet rules Taurus?","Taurus is ruled by Venus, the planet of love, values and aesthetics. In Taurus, Venus shows her sensual, steady side – in enjoying, preserving and shaping what is beautiful.",{"q":66,"a":67},"Are Taureans really stubborn?","What looks like stubbornness is usually constancy: Taurus does not change course on demand, but out of conviction. Whether this strength turns into rigidity depends on the whole birth chart – and on personal development.","\u002Fen\u002Fzodiac-signs\u002Ftaurus\u002F",[70,72,74,77],{"title":24,"path":71},"\u002Fen\u002Fplanets\u002Fvenus\u002F",{"title":30,"path":73},"\u002Fen\u002Fzodiac-signs\u002Fscorpio\u002F",{"title":75,"path":76},"Taurus ascendant","\u002Fen\u002Fascendant\u002Ftaurus\u002F",{"title":78,"path":79},"Im Tarot: The Hierophant","\u002Fen\u002Ftarot\u002Fcards\u002Fthe-hierophant\u002F",1793051121260]