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Taurus and Aquarius compatibility
Taurus and Aquarius are three signs apart on the wheel, a square of about 90°: earth and air, both 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 Taurus from 20 April to 21 May and in Aquarius from 20 January to 18 February. No famous couple in StarMap's dataset has this pair of Sun signs, where chance would give about 7.2. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 78th 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: Taurus and Aquarius, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.
What astrology reads for Taurus and Aquarius
Three signs apart is the square, and astrology reads it as friction with a purpose. The two signs share a modality, so both want to act in the same way, by starting, by holding or by adapting, but from elements that do not mix, and each tends to feel that the other is doing the right thing in the wrong manner. The tradition is plain that this angle is felt: these are the pairs that argue about how.
It is also, in the same tradition, the angle that gets things built. Two Suns at a square give each other something to push against, and astrologers read the pairing as one in which both people grow because neither can settle. What the reading asks is that the friction be aimed at the task rather than at each other; the rest of the two charts, the Moons and Venus especially, says how easily that happens.
Earth with air
Earth with air is read as the practical sign and the thinking sign: one asks what works, the other asks why. The tradition reads the pairing as civil and often productive, each supplying a competence the other lacks, and cooler than most, since neither element leads with feeling. The reading is that these two can build a good life together and may need to remember to enjoy it.
Fixed with fixed
Both signs are fixed, the signs of the middle of a season, and the tradition reads two fixed people as loyal, stubborn and built to last. Each holds to a position; neither gives way easily. The reading is of a pair that stays once it has decided to, and that may have to be careful which disagreements it decides to keep.
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.
Taurus in love, Aquarius in love
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.
Aquarius
In love, Aquarius starts from friendship and never quite leaves it. It needs space and conversation, resists possessiveness, and can seem detached when it is simply thinking. Its lesson is that intimacy is not a loss of freedom, and that feelings do not have to be reasonable to be said.
494 famous people have the Sun in Taurus for certain and 530 in Aquarius: every Taurus Sun and every Aquarius Sun, each with a birth chart.
Famous Taurus and Aquarius couples
Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 0 are Taurus and Aquarius. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 7.2, and this is the only pairing of the 78 with none. 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.
No couple in the dataset has this pair of Sun signs. The dataset holds the spouses and partners Wikidata lists among about six thousand well-known people, so a missing pair says more about the sample than about the signs.
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 three signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a square between how a person is seen and how they feel.
Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aquarius: 24 famous people
Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Taurus: 25 famous people
George Lucas
Jessica Alba
Orson Welles
Ronald Reagan
Taylor Lautner
XaviOnly people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Aquarius and the Moon in Taurus have pages of their own.
Questions people ask
Are Taurus and Aquarius compatible?
By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Taurus and Aquarius as a square, three signs apart: earth and air, both fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. No couple in StarMap's dataset of famous couples has this pair, against about 7.2 that chance would give, which is a curiosity of a small sample rather than a finding. 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 Taurus and Aquarius?
None of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain. Chance alone would give about 7.2, so this is the rarest pairing of the 78 by that measure.
Who has the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Aquarius?
24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Aquarius, George Lucas, Jessica Alba and Orson Welles among them. 25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Taurus, Ronald Reagan, Taylor Lautner and Xavi 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.
Photo credits (6 photos from Wikimedia Commons)
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