What Mars in Taurus means
On moving day you are the friend still carrying boxes in hour six, at the same pace as in hour one, while everyone else sits on the curb with a soda. You sit down when the truck is empty.
Mars is the planet of drive and appetite. Taurus, a fixed earth sign under Venus, cares about the body and about whatever is built to last. Mars likes quick action, while Taurus wants to keep what it has and enjoy it, and because Taurus faces Scorpio, one of Mars's own signs, it counts as a detriment. For you, that means energy that comes out as endurance, and a need for a solid reason before you move.
Once you do move, people find it very hard to talk you out of a course. That helps at work and hurts in arguments. You want concrete results, money in the account or a house that is paid off, and you put real effort into food and touch. Your anger is rare and slow. It can build for weeks without showing, and when it finally comes out, it is heavy.
Mars in Taurus in love
In love you need time. A partner who demands an answer right now, or who treats shared money carelessly, will find you planting your feet and sometimes going silent for days. You also need to know what you think before a fight, so an argument forced on the spot goes badly for both of you. Making up is slow and physical: an apology with one concrete change attached, then a meal cooked together. Your desire builds through comfort and trust, which is why a cold or rushed bedroom is the first sign, for you, that something else has gone wrong. What you give back is steady, physical loyalty, and you keep working on a relationship long after others would have walked away.
What drives them
When you seem slow, you are weighing the cost before you commit, and anyone who pushes at that stage only lengthens the wait. Corner you in an argument and you stop moving at all. Leave you a way out and you will take it more often than not. Vague rewards do little for you: "this will look great on your résumé" moves you less than a raise. You work for things you can touch and keep, like savings or a body made stronger by months of training. Name the result at the start and you will set your own pace toward it, and you will get there.
Men and women with this placement
Mars in Taurus man
A man with a Taurus Mars finishes things. He will spend three weekends restoring the same old chair, calm about it in a way that can drive a quicker partner up the wall. He is rarely the one who starts a fight and almost never the first to give one up.
Mars in Taurus woman
A woman with this placement listens, says little and takes her time deciding. When she refuses, the no is final. She shows desire through the senses, with good food and a warm home, and the partners who suit her are in no hurry either.
Find your Mars sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your Mars is in Taurus. If Mars changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♌︎ Leo | 9°11′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 13°23′ | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♍︎ Virgo | 4°31′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♋︎ Cancer | 15°09′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♉︎ Taurus | 13°05′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♋︎ Cancer | 26°23′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 20°43′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 6°21′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 12°29′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio | 14°58′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 7°11′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 0°13′ | what you refuse to tame |
Without a birth time we check the whole day in US time zones. If a planet changed sign that day, both signs are shown; add your time to settle it. ℞ marks a planet that looked like it was moving backward (retrograde). North Node and Lilith are the mean positions.
Mars in Taurus in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 7.51%
- Typical stay in Taurus
- 42 days
- Retrograde at birth
- 6.8% of them
- Element · quality
- Earth · Fixed
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
Work, sport and anger
Your anger lights slowly, and the danger is storage. Small irritations pile up unspoken until one minor thing sets off a reaction that looks far out of proportion to everyone else. Saying "this bothers me" while it is still small saves you weeks of carrying it. Work suits you when effort piles up into a result you can see: building, cooking, gardening, craft, finance. Long projects bring out your best and chaotic ones your worst, and being moved from task to task before anything is done grates on you. Your body, too, prefers endurance and strength to speed.
Mars in Taurus in the houses
The house needs your birth time and place; the sign is the same for everyone born in these years. What each house covers on its own: 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th.
Mars in Taurus in the 1st house
Good boots, resoled twice, say a lot about you. You move at your own pace, and nobody hurries you across a room. People read you as calm and are caught off guard by how fixed you become once you plant your feet. Your drive lives in your body: strong hands, steady posture, a gym routine kept for decades.
Mars in Taurus in the 2nd house
Money is where this Mars works hardest. You earn by staying with one trade long enough to get very good at it, and you buy fewer, better things. Savings grow slowly and stay put. Anger flares when someone treats what you own carelessly, a borrowed jacket returned with a stain, and you remember the stain.
Mars in Taurus in the 3rd house
A text can sit unanswered for a day while you think it over, and the sender may read it as sulking. You speak at your own speed and stand by every word. You would rather walk to the neighbor's door than argue in a group chat. Learning goes at your pace and sticks for good, and short trips go to the same three favorite places.
Mars in Taurus in the 4th house
A promotion that means moving away from the house can wait. You put your drive into land, walls and a garden, and you dig the beds yourself. Fights at home are rare and heavy, and they start over the house itself, a sold couch or a moved fence. You keep the old recipes and the old furniture, and you rehang the old door before you replace it.
Mars in Taurus in the 5th house
What does flirting look like when you refuse to rush it? For you it is a long dinner, a slow dance and a second date at the same restaurant. Desire is physical and patient, and creative work is hands-on, a table you plane and sand yourself over a dozen weekends. Your kids find you steady in the bleachers at every game.
Mars in Taurus in the 6th house
A workshop or a farm stand, any place with a steady rhythm, suits this Mars. Daily work goes well when it is practical, and you outlast coworkers who start faster. Health habits stick once chosen, like the same weights routine three mornings a week. Being rushed or reorganized mid-task makes you dig in and work slower on purpose.
Mars in Taurus in the 7th house
Your partner pushes for an answer and gets silence, then a firm no over breakfast the next day. Partners learn that you agree with care and then hold the agreement for years. You choose loyal, grounded people, and open rivals find you very hard to move. Pressure is the fastest way to lose your cooperation, at home or in a deal.
Mars in the 7th house in any sign: the full page.
Mars in Taurus in the 8th house
A deed with two names on it is the paper you care about most. Joint money, inheritance and debt get your full attention, and you want every arrangement signed. Intimacy is sensual and unhurried. When bad news comes, you are the rock: you do not panic, you make soup, you sit with people until the worst of the night has passed.
Mars in Taurus in the 9th house
Getting you out the door for a trip takes weeks of persuading, and then you love the trip. Travel is slow and physical, a fishing lodge or a long train ride with a window seat. Study suits you when it is practical and leads to a skill. Your beliefs form over years, and nobody argues you out of them in one evening.
Mars in Taurus in the 10th house
Steady effort builds your career, and the name you earn is for being reliable. Construction or finance suits you, anything tied to real goods. A boss who keeps changing the plan gets your most stubborn work. Anger at work builds over months, and when you finally refuse an order, the refusal stands for good and no speech is needed.
Mars in Taurus in the 11th house
You host the yearly cookout for the same crowd, same grill, same playlist, and nobody else would dare take it over. Groups trust you with money and logistics, and the club treasurer job tends to find you. What you hope for is solid, a cabin on its own land or a small farm, and you work toward them a little every month.
Mars in Taurus in the 12th house
Stubbornness needs somewhere to go when nobody is watching, and yours goes into stacking a woodpile or pulling weeds until dark. Anger stays buried and heavy, and an old resentment can go unmentioned for years, so time alone outdoors matters. Washing the car by hand on a Sunday, slow and thorough, settles you better than any conversation.
Your Mars and your Sun sign
Take a Leo Sun with this Mars. Both signs are fixed, so the plans are large and the pace is slow and steady, and the projects outlast those of quicker fire types. Pride adds to the stubbornness. Once this person has announced a plan in public, dropping it feels like losing twice, so they finish things other people would quietly abandon. The cost shows in arguments, where neither the Sun nor the Mars knows how to give ground first. An earth or water Sun sits more easily with a Taurus Mars and simply adds patience.
When Mars is in Taurus: dates and retrograde periods
From July 28, 2005 to February 17, 2006, Mars stayed in Taurus for almost seven months in a row, and that one stay pushed the 2000s to 11.5% of birth dates, about double the 2010s. An ordinary pass takes about 42 days, every couple of years. Other long stays came in 1958, from July 21 to September 20 and again from October 29 to February 10, 1959, and in 1973 and early 1974 in two long visits. Because Mars rarely turns backward in this part of the zodiac, retrograde births are uncommon: 6.8% of Taurus Mars birthdays. Mars was last in Taurus from May 19 to June 28, 2026, and returns on April 28, 2028.
Mars is retrograde from January 10 to April 1, 2027. The dates, the shadow period and what it means for your sign are on our Mars retrograde 2027 page.
| Entered Taurus | Left Taurus | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2019 | Mar 30, 2019 | |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Mar 3, 2021 | |
| Jul 5, 2022 | Aug 19, 2022 | |
| Jun 9, 2024 | Jul 20, 2024 | |
| May 19, 2026 | Jun 28, 2026 | |
| Apr 28, 2028 | Jun 7, 2028 | |
| Apr 8, 2030 | May 18, 2030 | |
| Mar 18, 2032 | Apr 28, 2032 |
Dates in UTC: days when Mars stood in Taurus at noon UTC. In US time zones a change can fall a day earlier; on the first and last day the exact time matters, and the calculator above checks it for your birthday.
Share by decade of birth. It rises and falls with the planet's cycle, not with fashion.
Mars in Taurus compatibility
Scorpio, directly across, gives you the most chemistry and the longest standoffs, since both signs are fixed and neither likes to give in first. Venus in Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn moves at your pace and wants the same comforts, which makes the attraction easy and lasting. Venus in Cancer or Pisces brings a tenderness you will want to protect. Fire placements, especially Mars in Aries or Leo, bring excitement and a running argument about speed. Air partners can feel too quick and too abstract until trust builds.
To compare your Mars with a partner's, enter both birth dates in the zodiac compatibility calculator.
Both partners with the Sun in Taurus: Taurus and Taurus compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with Mars in Taurus
- Madonna, American singerAug 16, 1958
- Céline Dion, French Canadian singerMar 30, 1968
- Corbin Bleu, American actorFeb 21, 1989
- Selena Gomez, American singer and actressJul 22, 1992
- Robert De Niro, American actorAug 17, 1943
- Jessica Alba, American actress and businesswomanApr 28, 1981
- Muhammad Ali, American boxerJan 17, 1942
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if Mars was in Taurus for the whole of their birthday in every time zone. A placement describes a style in the astrological tradition; it does not explain anyone's success.
More Mars signs
How common each Mars sign is, and where Mars is today: Mars signs.
In tarot, the Golden Dawn gave Mars the card The Tower: its meaning upright, reversed and in love.
Other planets in Taurus: ☽ Moon in Taurus · ☿ Mercury in Taurus · ♀ Venus in Taurus · ♃ Jupiter in Taurus · ♄ Saturn in Taurus · ♅ Uranus in Taurus · ☊ North Node in Taurus · ⚸ Black Moon Lilith in Taurus. Three or more of them together: stellium calculator.
Taurus elsewhere on the site: Taurus zodiac sign (the Sun in Taurus: traits, dates, love) · Midheaven in Taurus · Taurus compatibility by birth date · Moon sign calculator · earth signs · The World (the tarot card of earth) · in tarot, The Hierophant (the Taurus card) · The Empress (the tarot card of Venus, ruler of Taurus).
Mars in the sky now: where every planet is today · transit chart calculator (today's planets against your birth chart) · Taurus horoscope 2027 (the year ahead for the Sun sign) · all planet sign calculators.
Mars in Taurus in a full chart with a birth time on record: Madonna's birth chart · Jennifer Lawrence's birth chart · Jessica Alba's birth chart.
Questions people ask
Is Mars in Taurus bad?
No. In the traditional scheme Taurus is a detriment of Mars, a sign where it acts less freely. In people it shows as patience and sensual desire, with stubbornness as the main cost.
Why is a Taurus Mars so stubborn?
Taurus is a fixed sign, and Mars there wants a solid reason before it changes course. Pushing hardens its position; time and a clear argument soften it.
How does Mars in Taurus show anger?
Slowly. It goes quiet and holds irritation for a long time, then reacts strongly to something small. A problem raised while it is minor costs this Mars far less than a confrontation.
What is this Mars like sexually?
Sensual and patient. It enjoys touch and a slow pace, and it grows more passionate as trust grows.
How long does Mars stay in Taurus?
About 42 days on a normal pass, roughly every two years. A retrograde can stretch that: from July 28, 2005 to February 17, 2006 Mars stayed almost seven months.
If my Mars is in Taurus, am I a Taurus?
Not necessarily. The sign most of us name as ours is the Sun sign. Mars can sit several signs away from the Sun and describes how you act and what you want.
When is Mars in Taurus next?
From April 28 to June 7, 2028, counting at noon UTC. Before that, Mars was in Taurus from May 19 to June 28, 2026.
Who suits a Taurus Mars best?
Someone who shares your pace, often a partner with Venus or Mars in Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer, Pisces or Taurus itself. Fire partners are exciting company and will keep asking you to hurry.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Wikidata: birth dates of the famous people listed
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Planet positions come from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), and the statistics from our own run of every birth date from 1930 to 2025. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science; read a placement as a set of questions about yourself.