The animal itself
Bulls are colour-blind to red. The cape works because of the movement, and the colour is for the audience.1 of 2 calendars · 60 searches a month
Bull
The bull is read as steady force and stubborn holding. It appears in one of the two birth calendars we cover. The two are presented online as interchangeable, yet they name the same animal on only 17 days of 365 — 4.7% of the year.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Celtic calendar
15 April – 12 May
Its tree
Willow
Only the Celtic calendar assigns this one. Anyone born in these dates gets a different animal from the other system — the two agree on 4.7% of days →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Steady force and stubborn holding — weight applied slowly.
Honoured in: Minoan bull-leaping; Apis in Egypt; the Taurus constellation is among the oldest recorded, appearing in cave paintings at Lascaux.
Counted across all 39 animals
Where the bull sits
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
32nd
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
Both calendars are published online as though interchangeable. They are not, and the disagreement is the reason two sites can give you different animals for the same birthday. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Bull is ranked 32 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.