Sign compatibility
Aries starts it, Taurus finishes it
- Elements
- Fire
- Earth
- Modalities
- Cardinal
- Fixed
- Rulers
- Mars
- Venus
Aries decides in a minute and explains later. Taurus will not move until he has checked, and hurrying him achieves nothing.
Thirty degrees separate the signs, a semisextile: no shared element, no shared modality. Fire and earth do not feed each other, so nothing here comes easily. Neighbouring signs do see each other clearly, and each notices what he himself lacks. The rest depends on whether he admits it or decides the other is in the way.
The angle between Aries and Taurus
Aries and Taurus stand 30° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Semisextile. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.
Fire and Earth are the classically awkward elements: what one of them treats as obvious, the other has to be talked into.
Cardinal and Fixed are two different speeds: one sets the pace, the other decides how long it lasts.
The pair has two rulers, Mars and Venus, and each side reads the relationship through its own.
One pushes, the other holds
A job Taurus would weigh for a month gets started in a day next to Aries, and nothing terrible happens.
What Aries would drop halfway, Taurus carries to the end. He finds abandoning a job indecent and says nothing about it.
Money is what they argue about most
For Aries, spending moves things along. For Taurus it empties a reserve saved for something else.
The amount hardly matters. They argue about who may decide alone, and a small purchase sets it off as sharply as a large one.
The calm couples are the ones who agreed in advance on the sum above which both decide.
Together they get more done
At work this shows more clearly than at home. Aries opens the direction and takes the negotiations, Taurus holds deadlines and quality, and neither complains while nobody reaches into the other half.
They quarrel at two different speeds
Aries flares up and calls it settled an hour later. Taurus warms slowly and cools more slowly still.
The hard part comes after. Aries is back to normal life while Taurus is still inside the conversation, and reads the calm as indifference. They make up through deeds, not words.
Where this pair rubs
The first difficulty is the right to change your mind. Aries revises the plan as he goes and sees nothing wrong in it. Taurus treats an agreement as fixed and takes every revision as a deception.
The second is silence. Taurus does not object out loud and hopes the question will fade. Aries reads that as consent and carries on, then gets blamed for a decision he thought was joint. One rule works: disagreement is said at once, and a change of plan is announced, not assumed.
Compare the real charts
A Sun sign is only the outline. A synastry chart puts two full birth charts side by side — Moon, Venus, Mars and the houses — and shows where the two of you actually meet.
Open synastryAries: the other pairs
- Aries and Aries
- Aries and Gemini
- Aries and Cancer
- Aries and Leo
- Aries and Virgo
- Aries and Libra
- Aries and Scorpio
- Aries and Sagittarius
- Aries and Capricorn
- Aries and Aquarius
- Aries and Pisces
Taurus: the other pairs
- Taurus and Taurus
- Taurus and Gemini
- Taurus and Cancer
- Taurus and Leo
- Taurus and Virgo
- Taurus and Libra
- Taurus and Scorpio
- Taurus and Sagittarius
- Taurus and Capricorn
- Taurus and Aquarius
- Taurus and Pisces
The ruling planets of this pair
Answers
Aries and Taurus: common questions
A working pair, and both do the work. One knows how to start, the other how to finish, and neither manages both alone. The hard part is pace: what counts as rushing and what counts as stalling.
They can, if the household is split into areas. A shared wallet and a shared renovation produce constant friction; separate responsibility removes it.
Thirty degrees: neighbours on the circle with no shared element and no shared modality. They see each other clearly and understand each other badly, because what works for one fails for the other.
They are, usually for longer than they live together. Friendship needs no agreement about money or speed, so what is left is what each does well: Aries gets you out of the house, Taurus stays when it is hard.