Taurus rising
Its own mind
Taurus rising gives a stubborn, headstrong nature that tends to put itself first, and when angered it can turn envious, grasping and spiteful.
Taurus
Rising
The Taurus ascendant
Taurus was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. Its image is the bull: short and sturdy, with a strong neck, and a steadfast nature that wins its battles by quietly refusing to move.
Taurus rises today
Rising now
in
Taurus rising
at a glance
RulerVenus
Element and modeEarth, fixed
Symbolthe bull
Opposite, on the seventh houseScorpio
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Taurus there, the chart starts in a fixed earth sign ruled by Venus. Scorpio, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Taurus
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The build
- Usually short and stocky, with a strong neck, well developed calves and a chubby foot.
- The face
- Full, with heavy jaws, a short, blunt nose and large earlobes.
- The eyes
- Dark and soft rather than fiery, though under provocation they turn sullen and show the quiet resistance of the sign.
- The hair
- Wavy. Together with the dark eyes, it often gives real beauty.
- The walk
- The heel goes down first, and heaviest.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Venus stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Taurus rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
People with Taurus rising are thorough and steadfast in everything they do. In love and in dislike, at work and at play, they keep to the direction they have chosen, and neither reason nor argument will turn them aside.
They take in new ideas slowly and with caution. Once an idea is understood and accepted, though, it is never forgotten, and they will argue for it at length. The Sun rising here makes the body especially firm, and Venus, the ruler, makes it beautiful as well as strong and adds a gift for art and music.
The Heindels were blunt about the mind: stubborn and headstrong, inclined to put itself first, and when angered, capable of envy, possessiveness and spite. Like all the fixed signs on the ascendant, it is thoughtful but slow and steady, and needs time to reach a decision.
The Taurus rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The fixed signs
Its group
With a fixed sign on the angles, the mind is thoughtful but slow and plodding, and needs time to come to a decision.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Taurus takes about 1 hour 9 minutes of every day to rise, less than the two-hour average, so it is rarer there. In Sydney it takes about 2 hours 25 minutes, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there.
No. Being a Taurus usually means the Sun was in Taurus, which happens from late April to late May. Taurus rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Venus. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.