Horoscope · the year ahead
Your Taurus year what holds you, without what holds you back.
A Taurus year isn’t counted in novelties: it’s weighed in roots. Your fixed-earth temperament excels at making things last; its deep work is learning to tell what steadies you from what stalls you. This page describes that long-haul work, the way you love and build, then shows you how to read the agenda calculated below: your season at the heart of spring, your lunations, the slow transits through your sign.
The essentials
- Your season
- April 20, 2026 to May 21, 2026
- Lunations in your sign
- 2 in 2026
- Element and modality
- fixed earth
- Ruling planet
- Venus
- Natural house
- the second house, worth and matter
- Keyword for the year
- choosing your roots
Your big work: telling what holds you from what holds you back
You are the sign that embodies matter: the body, the long stretch of time, the taste for things made to last. Your strength is constancy; its blind spot is that it doesn’t always tell the difference between loyalty and habit. You can stay out of love for a place, a bond, a craft; you can also stay because leaving would cost too much discomfort.
Taurus maturity runs through this question, asked without harshness: what do I keep because it’s precious, and what do I keep because it’s simply there? The year doesn’t ask you to upend everything; it asks you to choose your roots consciously, so your stability stays a ground and doesn’t become a fence.
In love and friendship: loving with your hands
You love concretely. A meal prepared, a presence that doesn’t slip away, a word kept: with you, tenderness comes through gestures more than declarations. Those who know you understand that your slowness to attach isn’t coldness: it’s seriousness.
What grows you is accepting that the other person moves. You can experience a change in those you love as a threat, when it’s often just a breath. Loosening your grip, saying what you feel before resentment settles in silence: that’s your relational work for the year.
At work: build slowly, harvest surely
You build the way you cultivate: in layers, in seasons, with a patience few signs can hold. Your worth isn’t always visible in the first quarter; it shows over the year. Contrary to the caricature, your classic trap isn’t laziness: it’s the refusal to change method, even when the method has stopped serving you.
Keep an eye on Venus, your ruler: she speaks of what you value, and so of what you’re willing to let grow. A good Taurus year alternates consolidation with small experiments: enough new to keep you from setting like cement, enough stable to keep you from worrying.
How to read your year: season, lunations, slow transits
The agenda below gathers your landmarks, recalculated each night from the ephemeris. Your season first: the month when the Sun crosses your sign, at the heart of spring, when everything grows. It’s your moment for taking stock and sowing, the one where setting an intention carries the most weight.
The new moon in Taurus, in or near that window, opens your personal cycle; the full moon in Taurus, six months later during Scorpio season, marks its peak: harvest, light cast on what you’ve grown, sometimes a letting-go that has become necessary.
That leaves the slow transits: when a planet enters Taurus, your most intimate ground switches on, and questions of worth, body and security rise again. When a retrograde unfolds there, take it as a second tilling: you pass over the same furrow so the earth can breathe.
The advice you don’t want to hear
Comfort can be a soft cage. What you refuse to let go of sometimes ends up holding you, and the security you defend so well can become the excuse that keeps you from living.
You don’t need a guarantee to deserve to begin. Try small, try slow if you like, but try: your solidity isn’t in danger when you move. That’s precisely where it finally becomes good for something.
Your 2026 agenda
The Taurus dates for 2026, calculated from the ephemeris and rechecked every night: your season, the lunations that fall in your sign, the planets that enter it or go retrograde there. Freely citable with a link to this page.
The lunations in your sign
The planets that enter your sign
- Venus enters Taurus on March 30, leaving Aries
- Mercury enters Taurus on May 3, leaving Aries
- Mars enters Taurus on May 18, leaving Aries
Frequently asked questions
- When does your Taurus year begin?
- At your season, when the Sun returns to its natal position, at the heart of spring. The new moon in Taurus that falls in this window is your best starting point: its exact dates for the current year are in the agenda on this page.
- Why does the full moon in Taurus fall so far from your season?
- Because a full moon happens when the Moon faces the Sun: to light up your sign, it has to arrive during the opposite season, Scorpio’s. It’s your harvest lunation: six months after your sowing, you look at what has grown.
- Should you worry about a retrograde in Taurus?
- No: it’s a stretch where a planet passes back over your sign and invites you to revisit a deep question, often tied to worth, matter or rhythm. For a sign that loves the long stretch of time, it’s almost favorable ground.