Taurus and Virgo compatibility

Love and romance stands at 78. The angle has the largest weight in it and is at full value, as are the elements. The rulers weigh as much as the elements in this facet, and they are what holds it down.

Ptolemy calls the trine harmonious, one of two configurations formed “between signs of the same kind”. He also names the pair’s triplicity: “The second triplicity, formed by Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, is allotted to the dominion of the Moon and Venus, since it consists of feminine signs.” So Venus, the ruler of Taurus, is in his scheme a lord of the group that holds both signs. In another chapter he puts “her fall in Virgo”. Bringing those two statements together is our doing.

Trust is the lowest facet, at 70. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here, and this pair has half of it: Taurus as a fixed sign counts in full, Virgo as a mutable sign counts nothing.

Ptolemy’s name for the signs our data calls mutable is bicorporeal. They “severally follow the fixed signs”, he says, and “participate in the constitutional properties of both” their neighbours. Virgo follows Leo, so his rule covers it.

Alan Leo writes of Virgo people: “They are careful and cautious, and usually act somewhat methodically, or with much apparent forethought.” Of Taureans he says that “as co-workers they are reliable, sincere and trustworthy”. The two sentences come from two chapters, and reading them together is our choice.

Communication reaches 80. The elements weigh most in this facet and count in full; adaptability, at half, adds a middling share.

Alan Leo says of Virgo people: “They are the most critical of all individuals, but they usually turn this criticism also upon themselves.” He also finds that “they always seem to have their wits about them, and are generally self-possessed”. Taureans, in his Taurus chapter, “usually speak with a quiet, firm, inflexible and almost authoritative tone”. Our reading, not his: a critic with ready wits in one portrait, a quiet and unbending voice in the other.

Emotions is the highest facet, 81. No input weighs more in it than the elements, and two earth signs share theirs entirely.

William Lilly’s lines for the two signs, compared by us, overlap word after word. Taurus is “an Earthly, Cold, Dry, Melancholy, Feminine, Nocturnal” sign; Virgo is “an earthly, cold, melancholly, barren, feminine, nocturnall” one. Lilly lists qualities for judging a chart and is not describing people.

Contrasting Taureans with the Aries types, Alan Leo says they “are more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”. Of Virgo people: “They are self-analytical, and seem to be always taking themselves to pieces.” Feeling in one chapter and self-analysis in the other; the pairing of the sentences is ours.

Values comes to 73. It counts steadiness, as trust does, and those two are the pair’s lowest facets.

One word occurs in both of Alan Leo’s portraits. Taureans are “slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons”. Virgo people “are very industrious, persistent, and tend more toward the practical than the ideal”. Set side by side by us, both sentences say “persistent”, and “matter-of-fact” in one sits near “practical” in the other.

Shared activities scores 79. The elements weigh most and count in full, and adaptability is at half.

Virgo, as the mutable sign, is where that half comes from. Alan Leo says of Virgo people that “they can so readily adapt themselves to the requirements of those around them that they make excellent entertainers and splendid social companions”. Of Taureans: “They are excellent companions to those possessing ideas”. Linking his “adapt themselves” to the adaptability in our formula is our step, and so is noting that both sentences speak of companions.