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Aries and Taurus compatibility

Aries and Taurus are one sign apart on the wheel, a semi-sextile of about 30°: fire and earth, one cardinal and one fixed. Astrology reads the angle between two Sun signs as the first measure of a pair, and the rest of the two charts as the rest of the story.

This year the Sun is in Aries from 20 March to 20 April and in Taurus from 20 April to 21 May. 11 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are an Aries and a Taurus, where chance would give about 6.8: David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 9th most common pairing of the 78. A Sun sign is one placement of ten, and the two whole charts say far more than the two signs.

Each sign has its own page: Aries and Taurus, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

11 famous Aries and Taurus couples, scored chart against chart.How do your two charts compare?Compare two whole charts, free: every angle between your planets

What astrology reads for Aries and Taurus

Signs next door to each other share nothing by element or by modality, and astrology reads neighbouring Sun signs as two people who grew up on either side of a fence: close enough to see each other every day, far enough apart to have learnt different lessons. The later sign is traditionally taken to have been shaped by what the earlier one left unfinished, so each tends to be good at what the other finds hardest.

The reading is of a pairing built on difference rather than likeness. There is little automatic understanding to fall back on, and more to find out, which some people find restful and others find like work. Astrologers often say these pairs make each other more complete than comfortable: the relationship is where each learns the step that comes next in the zodiac.

Fire with earth

A fire sign with an earth sign is read as spark and ground: one wants to start, the other wants to make it last. The tradition reads the pairing as productive when each respects what the other supplies, the fire sign bringing the impulse and the earth sign the follow-through, and wearing when each reads the other as either reckless or dull. Astrologers call it the pairing that most needs to agree on pace.

Cardinal with fixed

One sign is cardinal and one is fixed: a starter and a keeper. The tradition reads the pairing as complementary, the cardinal sign supplying new directions and the fixed sign holding to the ones worth keeping, and as a contest when the one that starts wants to start again and the one that holds has only just settled.

These are readings of the Sun signs alone, written for reflection and entertainment. They describe tendencies the tradition assigns to an angle, not two people, and they do not say whether a pair lasts.

Aries in love, Taurus in love

Aries

In love, Aries pursues. Interest is shown early and plainly, the chase matters, and the sign is at its best with a partner who can hold their own rather than one who gives way. What it needs to learn is patience: desire arrives before tenderness, and the relationship lasts when the second catches up with the first.

Taurus

In love, Taurus is slow to begin and slow to end. Affection shows in presence rather than declarations: cooking, turning up, remembering. The sign wants a settled life with someone and is unsettled by games and sudden changes. Its lesson is that holding on tightly is not the same as holding well.

532 famous people have the Sun in Aries for certain and 494 in Taurus: every Aries Sun and every Taurus Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Aries and Taurus couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 11 are Aries and Taurus. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 6.8, a ratio of 1.62, which makes this the 9th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted. With about seven couples a cell, a ratio between a half and double is what chance produces; the counts describe the dataset, not the signs.

5 more on the couples page. All famous couples, each scored from both birth charts.

Both signs in one chart

The two signs also meet inside one chart, when the Sun is in one and the Moon in the other. Astrologers read a Sun and Moon one sign apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a semi-sextile between how a person is seen and how they feel.

Only people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Taurus and the Moon in Aries have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Aries and Taurus compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Aries and Taurus as a semi-sextile, one sign apart: fire and earth, cardinal with fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 11 are Aries and Taurus, against about 6.8 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.62. The angles between two whole charts, Moon to Moon and Venus to Mars among them, say more than the Sun signs can; the comparison is free on StarMap.

How many famous couples are Aries and Taurus?

11 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson among them. Chance alone would give about 6.8, which makes it the 9th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Taurus?

24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Taurus, Quentin Tarantino, Elton John and Robert Downey Jr. among them. 24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Aries, Janet Jackson, Kaká and Stevie Wonder among them. The Moon's sign depends on the day and often on the hour of birth, so only people whose Moon sign is certain are counted.

Sun signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, in the tropical zodiac. Birth data and relationship data come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, from Astro-Databank with their Rodden rating. A couple is counted only when the Sun was in one sign for the whole of each birth date. Readings describe what the tradition assigns to an angle, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Compare two whole charts.

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