Earth · Fixed · ruled by Venus
Taurus rising
If Taurus was on the eastern horizon when you were born, Taurus is your rising sign: the first thing read in a chart and the last thing anyone needs to be told about you. At 52°N it occupies 4.71% of ascendants, 67.6 minutes of each day, ranking 9th of twelve; the chart ruler that comes with it is Venus.
What Taurus rising is read as
Taurus rising is read as the steady one before anybody has evidence either way: unhurried speech, a settled posture, and a first impression built on comfort rather than display. The old texts are unusually physical about this ascendant — voice, appetite, the way a person occupies a chair — because Venus rules the sign and the first house is the body.
The gap between the mask and the person
The gap shows under pressure. A Taurus ascendant does not look rushed even when it is, so urgency behind the mask goes unnoticed and unhelped until the person says so outright, which this ascendant is slow to do.
Taurus as a Sun sign is a different reading again, and the big three together are what most descriptions are actually built from.
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How common a Taurus ascendant is
Taurus crosses the horizon in 67.6 minutes at 52°N — 4.71% of the day, 1.32× what Pisces takes there, and 9 of twelve. The reason the signs are uneven is on the calculator page.
| Latitude | Minutes rising | Share of ascendants | Rank of 12 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equator | 119.3 | 8.31% | 5 |
| 20° N — Mumbai, Mexico City | 105.6 | 7.35% | 9 |
| 35° N — Los Angeles, Tokyo | 92.5 | 6.44% | 9 |
| 45° N — Toronto, Milan | 80.1 | 5.58% | 9 |
| 52° N — London, Berlin | 67.6 | 4.71% | 9 |
| 60° N — Oslo, Saint Petersburg | 44 | 3.06% | 9 |
| 64° N — Reykjavik | 22.7 | 1.58% | 9 |
The chart a Taurus ascendant builds
With Taurus first, the other three angles follow without a choice being made, and Venus becomes the chart ruler.
Whole-sign angles, as the tradition assigned them; a timed birth chart places the midheaven by degree and can move it a sign either way.
Computed from the rising speeds at 52°N
What Taurus rising says about your birth hour
Given a Taurus ascendant, your Sun sign fixes the hour — the method, and its margin, is on the calculator page.
If your birth time is approximate
Taurus holds the horizon 68 minutes at a stretch at 52°N, so a quarter of an hour of doubt is harmless. One sign either way is Aries rising or Gemini rising — another ruler, another set of angles. The calculator returns every sign the recorded time allows; without a time at all, the moon sign is the placement that still holds.
Either side of it on the horizon: Aries rising, Gemini rising and Scorpio rising.
The same sign elsewhere: Taurus as a sun sign, Taurus horoscope today, Taurus compatibility and earth signs.