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A circle with a wide upturned arc resting on top of it, like a head carrying a pair of horns, the zodiac sign for births between 20 April to 20 May.
Also known as: Taurus, Taurus zodiac sign, Taurus star sign
Taurus is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 20 April to 20 May. Astrology classes it as a earth sign of fixed quality ruled by Venus, and reads the glyph as the head and horns of a bull. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Taurus, which tradition assigns to births between 20 April to 20 May. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+2649 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a earth sign of fixed quality, ruled by Venus.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as the head and horns of a bull.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
A circle with a wide upturned arc resting on top of it, like a head carrying a pair of horns.
Astrological tradition assigns Venus as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.