The Moon in Taurus
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 that, and gives the exact local times of the next six crossings.
- 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.
In a birth chart
Quiet, unimpulsive, and not to be moved off a position once it has been taken.
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 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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The three that come up most
Questions people ask
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.