Earth · Fixed · ruled by Venus

Taurus rising sign

A Taurus rising sign means Taurus was on the eastern horizon when you were born: 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 joint 9th of twelve; the chart ruler that comes with it is Venus.

Rises in London: 1 h 08 min 4.7% of births
On London’s horizon today: 4:14 PM–5:22 PM local time, Oct 31
Rises in Sydney: 2 h 25 min 10.1% of births
On Sydney’s horizon today: 6:40 PM–9:06 PM local time, Oct 31

AstroHot calculation; today’s hours update daily.

Taurus Rising Sign: Meaning, Appearance and Rising Times

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.

Behind the Taurus rising mask

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.

What does Taurus rising look like?

Traditionally: measured movement, a low and level voice, and a preference for being approached rather than approaching. It is the ascendant most often described as calming by people who have just met it.

Taurus as a Sun sign is read as steadiness, comfort and a long attention span — see the big three for how it combines with the ascendant.

Primary source

Taurus rising appearance, as William Lilly described it in 1647

The body Taurus gives when it rises

“It presents one of a short, but of a full, strong and wel-set stature, a broad Forehead, great Eyes, big Face; large, strong Shoulders; great, mouth and thick Lips; grosse Hands; black rugged Haire.”

William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI — read the original text. Lilly wrote these portraits for the sign on the ascendant — the use this page is about — and modified them by any planet rising with it and by the condition of Venus, the chart ruler. They are a seventeenth-century convention, not a forecast of anyone’s looks; spelling is as printed, with the long s and u/v modernized.

Computed for each latitude

How common a Taurus ascendant is

Taurus rises in 1 h 08 min at London’s latitude, 52°N

With 4.7% of the sidereal day, Taurus comes out joint 9th of the twelve, with its mirror sign, Aquarius.

Taurus rising by latitude: 8.3% of ascendants at the equator, 1.6% at 64° N

Taurus stays below the even split of 8.33% at every latitude here. Its place among the twelve moves from joint 5th at the equator to joint 9th at 64° N.

Shares assume births are spread evenly over the day. Why the signs are uneven is explained on the calculator page.

The chart a Taurus ascendant builds

With Taurus first, Leo falls on the IC, Scorpio on the descendant and Aquarius on the midheaven — and Venus becomes the chart ruler.

First house — the ascendant Taurus: how you arrive

Fourth house — the roots Leo on the fourth

Seventh house — the descendant Scorpio: what you look for in a partner

Tenth house — the midheaven Aquarius on the tenth: the public role

Chart ruler Venus — read for its own sign and house

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.

Birth hour implied by Taurus rising for each Sun sign, at 52°N
Sun in	Taurus rising means a birth
Aries	about 1 hour after sunrise
Taurus	within about 35 minutes either side of sunrise
Gemini	about 1.5 hours before sunrise
Cancer	about 3.7 hours before sunrise
Leo	about 6.3 hours before sunrise
Virgo	about 9.2 hours before sunrise
Libra	about 12 hours after sunrise
Scorpio	about 9.1 hours after sunrise
Sagittarius	about 6.4 hours after sunrise
Capricorn	about 4.3 hours after sunrise
Aquarius	about 2.8 hours after sunrise
Pisces	about 1.8 hours after sunrise

What time Taurus rises, month by month

Taurus over London in 2026: 11:13 AM–12:22 PM GMT in mid-January, 12:21 AM–1:30 AM BST in mid-July

Taurus starts to rise in the morning in Jan, Feb, Mar and Apr, and around midnight in Jul and Aug. From Apr 20 to May 21 the Sun is in Taurus, so at dawn the rising sign is Taurus too.

A London birth inside the bar for its date had Taurus rising; between the 15ths the bar slides about four minutes earlier per day. Other places shift the hours — the calculator works them out for any town and time.

How sure a Taurus ascendant is with an approximate birth time

The chance that a Taurus rising chart is really Aries rising or Gemini rising is 11% with a birth time good to ±15 minutes, 22% at ±30 and 44% at ±60, because Taurus spends only 1 h 08 min on London’s horizon.

Those odds assume the error is equally likely anywhere in the range and the birth anywhere in the sign. The calculator returns every sign the recorded time allows; without a time at all, the moon sign is the placement that still holds.

Sources

William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI

Statements of fact on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. How we choose and check sources: editorial policy.

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