Taurus and Taurus compatibility

Love and romance comes to 83. The angle has the largest weight in this facet and counts for three quarters; the element counts in full and the ruler for three quarters.

The ruler is Venus twice over. Ptolemy gives her the sign as a house: “Venus, possessing a favourable temperament, and placed beneath the sphere of Mars, takes the next two signs, Taurus and Libra.”

Ptolemy’s chapter on configurations names the opposition, the trine, the quartile and the sextile, and a sign set against itself is none of these. His translator, J. M. Ashmand, says in a note that it is “by no means wonderful that the conjunction is not inserted here along with the rest of the aspects”. Allowing sameness three quarters of a full angle is the formula’s decision.

Alan Leo writes that Taureans “may be contrasted with the Aries types by the fact that they are more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”. Doubled, on our reading, that is two people who each meet the other through feeling first.

Trust stands at 88, one point below values. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here, and two fixed signs supply the whole of it.

Ptolemy gives the name “fixed” to the signs in which a season, once begun, “is then more firmly established”. Turning a settled season into a dependable person is our step, and counting it twice is the formula’s.

Alan Leo writes: “They can be secretive and very reserved, but make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance.” Applied to both sides, which is our doing, that gives two faithful friends who can each be secretive.

Communication is the lowest of the six, at 65. The element carries the largest weight and counts in full, but a quarter of this facet belongs to adaptability, and two fixed signs have none by the formula’s measure.

Alan Leo describes how Taureans talk: “They can be very determined, persistent and dogmatic; they usually speak with a quiet, firm, inflexible and almost authoritative tone.” He is describing one person. Two such voices in one conversation, both quiet and both inflexible, is our picture and not his.

Emotions scores 86, the third highest facet. The element has the largest weight in it, and a sign shares its element with itself completely.

Lilly’s line for the sign, a list of qualities for judging a chart and not a portrait of people, states the temperament: “Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy”. Alan Leo’s portrait speaks of feeling, and he ties it to the element himself: “The true Taurean may be said to be one great, feeling individual, but as the sign belongs to the earthy triplicity, it is more often physical and objective than subjective feeling.” Read twice over, by us, that is feeling shown in physical and outward ways on both sides.

Values is the highest facet, 89. Element and steadiness together make up more than half of it, and both count in full for this pair; the angle and the ruler add three quarters each.

Alan Leo describes the type in one line: “The Taureans are slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons.” He also gives a warning with its own condition attached: “Persons possessing the strongest wills are born under this sign, but when living for themselves exclusively, they become as obstinate as it is possible for them to be.” That the same patience and the same obstinacy would sit on both sides is our reading.

Shared activities comes to 69, the second lowest. Adaptability is a fifth of this facet and brings nothing; the element, the angle and the ruler carry what there is.

Alan Leo says of Taureans: “They are excellent companions to those possessing ideas, and as co-workers they are reliable, sincere and trustworthy.” Two reliable co-workers with no such third party is a case the passages we use do not describe.