Aries and Taurus Compatibility
“One of you decided this morning. The other one has not finished deciding.”
Aries and Taurus make a semisextile in the Western zodiac, scoring 47 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Semisextile
Aries and Taurus sit 30 degrees apart: a semisextile.
Aries and Taurus sit next to each other and share almost nothing. Aries decides in the time it takes to have the thought, and is already halfway through the consequences before anyone has asked a question. Taurus does not decide at all until the thing has been examined, priced, slept on, and examined again, at which point the decision is permanent. Mars wants motion; Venus wants comfort, and neither treats the other's priority as real. What makes this a genuinely awkward pairing rather than a hostile one is that each of you privately suspects the other is right. Aries envies the fact that Taurus finishes things. Taurus watches Aries do in an hour what it has been circling for a fortnight, and is quietly annoyed about it.
The borrowing is real when either of you allows it. Taurus is the reason an Aries idea survives past its first bad week, and Aries is the reason a Taurus plan ever leaves the drawing board at all. Between you there is one person who can start and one who can hold, which is a complete set, and pairings built on this arrangement are unusually durable when they last. You are also both direct. Neither of you plays games or hints, so nothing here goes unsaid for long.
The tempo difference is not a detail, it is the whole argument, and it will be the argument for as long as you know each other. Aries experiences Taurus as an obstacle deliberately placed in the way. Taurus experiences Aries as a series of demands to hurry, which is the one thing guaranteed to make a Taurus stop entirely. Push a Taurus and you get stillness, not speed, and Aries takes that stillness personally every single time. Neither of you has the patience to explain yourselves twice.
Fire and earth: one lights it, the other has to live on the scorched ground. Excellent once the fire agrees to a hearth.
Cardinal meets fixed: one opens the door, the other holds it open. That is a genuine division of labour.
Aries and Taurus in the Ancient Zodiac
A sun sign is half of a reading. Which of the twelve Ancient Zodiac signs each of these two actually carries depends on the year they were born, and the pairing below is where the reading gets specific.
