A reformer with a quiet air: tenacity, a sense of the concrete, and ideas that disturb gently.
The reformer in clogs: Taurus gives the roots and the patience, Aquarius the idea that will change the landscape.
Bringing a novel idea to completion through uncommon patience and constancy.
Digging in on their positions with the double stubbornness of two fixed signs.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
The Taurus of May and the Aquarius of February are two fixed signs, earth on one side, air on the other, and their aspect is a square.
Venus holds the rising sign, Saturn the Sun sign, to which the moderns add Uranus. In this person, the first impression is one of calm: a warm handshake, a well-chosen dish at the restaurant, a laugh that takes its time. You do not yet suspect the bold ideas they will defend at dessert.
At noon, the Sun culminates in the 10th house, that of career, public action, and reputation. This combination wants to leave a concrete trace of its convictions: an agricultural cooperative that works, a neighborhood renovated on ecological principles, a company that treats its employees well. They know that ideas are worth only what they achieve, and they accept the long time needed to carry them through.
The square between two fixed signs shows up as doubled stubbornness. Neither the clod nor the breeze gives way: a quarrel over method can drag on, each camp entrenched. The person may also swing between a taste for comfort and a refusal of convention. The sting, at the setting point, would push them to let themselves be changed by burning encounters.
Stability and freedom, a warm home and independence of mind: an Aquarius Sun with Taurus rising wants both, and sees no contradiction.
Faithful, sensual, attached to shared rituals, they build slowly. Their loves, marked by the Scorpio descendant, would be demanding and unsettling. That intensity would help them commit more deeply, beyond the principles they readily display. The years strengthen this bond more than they wear it down.
Innovative agriculture, sustainable architecture, the social economy, urban planning, engineering, managing cooperatives, reformist public service: vision and a sense of the concrete meet there.
With the Sun at the zenith, renown and public works would weigh heavily. They advance slowly but never let go of a case. Their limit would be refusing any compromise, at the risk of blocking projects that might have moved forward another way. They know how to persuade by example.
A permaculture vegetable garden, solar panels on the roof, generous cooking, salvaged objects turned into furniture: the home mixes comfort and convictions.
Farmers’ markets, Sunday woods, long tables where society is rebuilt: these are their pleasures. Their habits are solid. Allowing themselves to change their mind about one small thing from time to time would soften a stubbornness that is sometimes heavy. Their friends know that one eats well there and debates for a long time.
Guardian of the Taurus horizon, Venus would cross the Water Bearer as a mere guest, more comrade than lover, more fraternal than voluptuous.
Old Kronos rules the Sun sign. The Sun, for its part, would lose some of its splendor there, exiled opposite its Leo; the doctrine would read in it a radiance offered to others rather than kept for oneself. For the authors, the bearing would be gentle and the substance reformist.
At noon, when the February disk reaches a still timid height, Taurus rises in the east. The Sun sign then culminates in the 10th house, seat of deeds, offices, and renown.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Taurus takes about 1 hr 14 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Aquarius, the rising sign is Taurus for a birth during that rise.
A air sign, fixed, ruled by Saturn and Uranus (modern).
The Aquarius signA earth sign, fixed; descendant in Scorpio.
Taurus risingVenus rules Taurus: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Venus| Sun in Aquarius | Taurus rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| January 22Start of the sign | 11:41 AM to 12:55 PM | 1 hr 14 min |
| February 3Middle of the sign | 10:54 AM to 12:07 PM | 1 hr 14 min |
| February 16End of the sign | 10:03 AM to 11:16 AM | 1 hr 14 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
Both, and that is their strength. From Venus in the east come patience and endurance; from the solar Aquarius, originality and faith in progress. They bring innovative projects to completion where others give up along the way. A possible downside: a stubbornness that makes them deaf to objections, even valid ones.
A rising Taurus lifts the Sun sign to the zenith, in the house of offices and fame. One would read there the wish to leave a tangible trace of their convictions: a reformed institution, a different kind of company, a collective project that lasts. The profession would often merge with a commitment.
The facade goes to Venus, the intimate side to Saturn: pleasure and framework. Depending on their positions, the taste for comfort and the rigor of principles would support or oppose each other. Uranus, modern ruler of Aquarius, would add a touch of the unexpected according to the sector it occupies. An aspect between Venus and Saturn would show whether pleasure and duty get along.