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Sign 2 of 12 in the horoscope

Are you really a Taurus?

By the horoscope, yes, and your sign stays yours. The stars behind it have quietly moved along, though: Taurus runs from 20 April to 20 May 2026, and on those dates the Sun passes through Aries and Taurus. This is the sky behind your sign.

An engraved plate of Aries, the Ram, in the style of an old star atlas, with its real stars traced over the figure
Aries, where the Sun spends 25 of Taurus’s 31 days, engraved in the old atlas style with its real stars traced over the figure.

Taurus against the sky, 2026

The horoscope says
20 April to 20 May · 31 days
The Sun is really in
  • Aries 20 April to 14 May · 25 days
  • Taurus 15 May to 20 May · 6 days

The Sun reaches the constellation Taurus on 15 May, in time for the sign’s last 6 days.

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Why the sky behind Taurus has moved

Taurus’s dates were set more than two thousand years ago, pinned to the March equinox, when the signs took their names from the constellations the Sun was crossing. Since then Earth’s slow wobble, called precession, has carried the equinox about a twelfth of the way round the sky, roughly one day’s worth every seventy years. Your sign has kept its dates, and the stars behind them have simply moved along: that is why the Sun now spends Taurus’s days in Aries and Taurus.

These dates are computed for 2026 from the constellation boundaries the International Astronomical Union fixed in 1930. A boundary can fall a day earlier or later in another year, so for the particular day, and hour, you were born the calculator will check it for you.