Aries and Taurus: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

Neighbouring signs share no element and no modality, and the traditional scheme counts them as “in aversion”, signs that cannot see each other. Each begins roughly where the other has just finished, which can be productive and can feel like talking past one another.

Elements and modalities

Fire is hot and dry, earth cold and dry, so they share dryness only. Fire proposes and earth tests; the tradition reads the pairing as one of drive meeting caution.

One sign starts and the other sustains: a cardinal sign opens, a fixed sign holds.

The rulers

Both rulers are personal planets, Mercury, Venus or Mars: ways of thinking, valuing and acting in daily life. The pair meets mostly at the level of habit and manner.

Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage. Venus stands for: value, attraction, pleasure, taste.

The two signs together

Aries tends to bring initiative: it says what it wants and starts before it is certain. It tends to need room to act without explaining each step, and a direct answer.

Taurus tends to bring steadiness: patience, loyalty to what it has chosen, and a feel for comfort. It tends to need time, and no sudden changes of plan.

Aries starts at once and Taurus moves at its own speed. Tension tends to be over pace, and over whether a plan counts as decided before it has been tested.

What tends to come easily

• +Each brings something the other has not yet developed.
• +Fire starts things and earth finishes them.
• +Starting and keeping are both covered.
• +Everyday ways of thinking, valuing and acting are easy to read.

What tends to cost something

• −There is little automatic understanding; common ground has to be built.
• −Fire hears caution as obstruction, and earth hears enthusiasm as haste.
• −The starter can feel held back, and the sustainer can feel pushed.
• −Small differences in habit are felt often, even when nothing larger is wrong.

What two Sun signs cannot say

Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.

The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.