Taurus Moon sign
A Taurus Moon sign means the Moon was in Taurus when you were born. The Moon is exalted in Taurus, and crosses it in about two and a half days each month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- Ruled by Venus
- The Moon is exalted here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Taurus
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
Taurus Moon personality
Quiet, unimpulsive, and not to be moved off a position once it has been taken.
- GiftsSteadyPersistent, determined and hopeful, sociable and good tempered. Leo links it with gaining friends, and with money, houses and land.
- StrugglesUnbendingConservative by nature, it resists change and outside influence and sticks to established custom. Leo also calls it somewhat sensuous and material.
Leo describes a personality that is persistent and determined and not to be thwarted in its aims, hopeful and ambitious, and quietly desirous of excelling. It follows established custom, is conservative by nature, and resists change pressed on it from outside.
He connects the position to friends, and to the acquisition of money, houses and land. The occupations he lists are earthy ones: land, property, heavy goods, long established businesses, often inherited from a parent. He calls the nature sensuous and material, and also sociable and good tempered, with some gift for singing, music and painting.
The Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
A Taurus Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Taurus Moon
A very strong character, the ideal and the practical well blended, with plenty of vitality and keen senses. It can be self-willed and dogmatic. Leo calls it good for financial success and positions of trust.
Taurus Sun, Taurus Moon
Determined, self-controlled, fearless and affectionate, and easily successful with money. Leo warns it can be too reserved, secretive and obstinate, and too self-centred.
Gemini Sun, Taurus Moon
Sensitive and determined, with strong feelings and ambitions. It steadies Gemini's restlessness, though Leo does not count it altogether favourable. Gain through relatives and literary work.
Cancer Sun, Taurus Moon
Sensitive, imaginative, intuitive and very psychic, and easily affected by others, so good company matters. Some morbid tendencies need self-control before success comes. Leo counts it somewhat fortunate.
Leo Sun, Taurus Moon
A very determined nature that puts its heart into practical things. Good business instincts, fortune in finance and strong vitality, suited to banking. Firm, and at times obstinate.
Virgo Sun, Taurus Moon
An earth pair that brings out intuition and practical, scientific ability, and makes for competence in business. Some poetic instinct, but reserved and over-cautious.
Libra Sun, Taurus Moon
Persevering, patient and cautious, with some psychic and inventive ability, and suited to large building schemes. Rather affected by its surroundings. Gain through partners or marriage.
Scorpio Sun, Taurus Moon
By no means a good pair, Leo says, though the Moon softens Scorpio's force. A remarkable instinct about illness, good for medical work, and success in business with a very firm nature.
Sagittarius Sun, Taurus Moon
Sympathetic, with Taurus steadying the Sagittarius impulse and giving stability to a foresight that is nearly always reliable. A fortunate pair for worldly success.
Capricorn Sun, Taurus Moon
Persistent, firm and self-controlled, somewhat conservative, with a wish to raise others up. The most practical of the set, able to gain wealth and to do good with it.
Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon
An excellent reader of character. Practical, faithful, sincere, firm, just and reliable.
Pisces Sun, Taurus Moon
Sensitive, with a great love of the occult. Taurus firms up the Pisces wavering and makes a kind, quiet and pleasant nature, with a love of money.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition calls this the Moon's exaltation.
Exaltation is not rulership. It is the sign where a planet is treated best as a guest: given room, given honour, and given more than it strictly owns. The Moon rules Cancer and is exalted here, in a fixed earth sign, which is the tradition's way of saying that feeling does well when it has something solid under it.
The practical reading follows from that. Comfort, possession and slowness are not weaknesses of this position; they are what the tradition thinks the Moon needs in order to work.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Making something and keeping it.
- EarthSolidEarth holds still. The tradition gives these days to making something that will last, to money and to the body, and to work that shows a result.
- FixedHoldingA fixed sign sits in the middle of a season, so the days are read as holding: the impulse is to keep what is already there.
The tradition gives these days to money, to the body and to work that leaves a result, and reads them as poor days for being talked out of anything.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Taurus Moons
| Enters Taurus | Time | Leaves for Gemini | Time | Stays |
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Questions people ask
What does a Taurus Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Taurus at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so a Taurus Moon is read as a quiet, steady and determined emotional nature.
How long is the Moon in Taurus?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Taurus Moon the same as being a Taurus?
No. A Taurus Sun means the Sun was in Taurus at your birth, which is late April to late May. A Taurus Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.