What North Node in Taurus means
Venus rules Taurus, a fixed earth sign that keeps its attention on what can be touched, like the body or a house with a working kitchen. Growth in this sign looks unglamorous from the outside. You buy one good pan and use it every night, and you cook a real dinner and eat it sitting down. When the dramatic option costs too much, in cash or in sleep, you turn it down.
Scorpio, at the other end of the axis, is the sign of secrets and endings, and a South Node there is a long education in crisis. You may be the friend who gets the phone call when a marriage breaks or a business burns, and you stay level while they come apart. The same education has a way of tangling money with loyalty. Scorpio covers what people share, such as joint accounts and other people's debts, and a South Node there can leave you carrying more of that than is yours. Taurus asks what's actually yours and then keeps it clean: a lease in your own name, and no co-signing someone else's loan.
Money is only part of what this node is about. The question underneath is what you count as yours, from your time to your opinion about dinner. Someone who has spent years handling other people's emergencies may never have been asked what they want to eat, and may not know.
Fixed signs dig in, and the old habits dig in with them. The pull keeps arriving, a message from an ex or an urge to test someone's loyalty. You read the message or you don't, and either way you go to bed on time.
Because the node moves backward, a calculated point and not a planet, Gemini came right before the latest Taurus stay and Aries followed it. A stay lasts about 18 months, so people born in the same stretch share it.
North Node in Taurus in love
A partner who answers your texts, remembers your Thursday and never raises their voice can seem strangely quiet at first. If a Scorpio South Node trained you to read tension as proof of love, that quiet can pass for boredom, and your body won't stop waiting for the other shoe. In the first year you may catch yourself ending a peaceful week with a pointless fight, just to feel the old voltage. The work is to stay anyway and see what the calm turns into, a shared kitchen or a budget meeting that ends without a fight. Touch counts here. Slow dinners and baths aren't extras.
Your South Node in Scorpio: what to grow out of
People bring you the worst news first, because Scorpio taught you to read what a person is hiding and not to flinch at a diagnosis or a breakup. The same training makes a quiet week feel suspicious. You pick a fight because a silence ran long, or you leave a calm job because nothing is happening. Taurus supplies the counterweight, a body that knows when it's tired and a feel for what's worth the money.
Men and women with this placement
North Node in Taurus man
He moves the same hundred dollars into savings on the first of every month and stops checking it. The first free weekend in years makes him restless by Saturday noon. By the third one he has planted something and stayed to watch it come up.
North Node in Taurus woman
She buys the good coat once instead of the cheap one three times. On the evening she set aside for herself, a friend calls in crisis, and she says she can talk tomorrow at ten. Then she runs the bath anyway.
Find your North Node sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your North Node is in Taurus. If North Node changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♑︎ Capricorn | 11°01′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♒︎ Aquarius or ♓︎ Pisces | depends on time | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 25°36′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♒︎ Aquarius ℞ | 6°11′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 10°08′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♋︎ Cancer ℞ | 5°07′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn | 15°40′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn | 5°47′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn | 12°02′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio | 17°05′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 18°25′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio | 6°29′ | 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.
North Node in Taurus in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 8.56%
- Typical stay in Taurus
- 19 months
- South Node, always opposite
- Scorpio
- Element · quality
- Earth · Fixed
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
How to work with it: purpose and career
Choose one trade or craft and stay with it for years, since skill in a fixed earth sign builds slowly and holds its value. Buy the good tool once. Eat at a table and go to bed at a regular hour. A North Node in Taurus does well where patience pays, such as farming or banking. Research and the hard conversations nobody else wants to have still suit you, as long as they stay jobs with closing hours.
Your North Node and your Sun sign
Standing on the South Node, Scorpio Suns have intensity as home ground, and calm is the stretch. A Taurus Sun likes the slow lane already, and the node asks it to stay flexible when the routine cracks. Virgo and Capricorn Suns find the direction natural from the start. Aries and Leo Suns move fast, and this point asks them to ease down to the speed of whatever they're building.
When the North Node was in Taurus: dates
Our table opens on January 1, 1930, with the node already in Taurus until June 18. Later stays ran from July 12, 1947 to January 27, 1949, from February 20, 1966 to September 9, 1967, from October 1, 1984 to April 20, 1986, from May 14, 2003 to November 29, 2004, and from December 23, 2021 to July 12, 2023. In our count 8.56% of birth dates fall under a Taurus node, third among the twelve signs, and the next visit comes after 2035.
Eclipses happen when a new or full moon falls near the nodes. Dates, signs and where each one is visible: eclipses 2026–2027.
| Entered Taurus | Left Taurus | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2021 | Jul 12, 2023 |
Dates in UTC: days when North Node 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.
North Node in Taurus compatibility
Ask who pays and who cooks before you ask anything cosmic, because this node shows up in practical things first. A partner's Sun or Venus in Taurus makes your steadier habits easy to keep. Their Scorpio planets touch your South Node, and the connection arrives fast and charged; it can pull you back toward crisis without either of you meaning it to. Watch what happens in the third calm month. If one of you starts a fight to break the quiet, you've found the pattern.
Both partners with the Sun in Taurus: Taurus and Taurus compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with North Node in Taurus
- Scarlett Johansson, American actressNov 22, 1984
- Jason Statham, English actorJul 26, 1967
- Katy Perry, American singerOct 25, 1984
- Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriterJun 21, 1985
- Michael Phelps, American swimmerJun 30, 1985
- Stephen King, American novelist and writerSep 21, 1947
- Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelistAug 24, 1947
- Haruki Murakami, Japanese writerJan 12, 1949
- Kurt Cobain, American rock musician, singer and songwriterFeb 20, 1967
- George R. R. Martin, American writer and television producerSep 20, 1948
- Salma Hayek, Mexican and American actressSep 2, 1966
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriterDec 8, 1966
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if North Node 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 North Node signs
How common each North Node sign is, and where North Node is today: North Node signs.
Other planets in Taurus: ☽ Moon in Taurus · ☿ Mercury in Taurus · ♀ Venus in Taurus · ♂ Mars in Taurus · ♃ Jupiter in Taurus · ♄ Saturn in Taurus · ♅ Uranus 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).
North Node 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.
North Node in Taurus in a full chart with a birth time on record: Kurt Cobain's birth chart · Lana Del Rey's birth chart · Katy Perry's birth chart · LeBron James's birth chart · Nicole Kidman's birth chart · Stevie Nicks's birth chart · Gordon Ramsay's birth chart · Audrey Hepburn's birth chart.
Questions people ask
Which sign sits opposite a Taurus North Node?
Scorpio holds the South Node. The two nodes face each other across the zodiac, so once one is known the other follows.
What is a North Node in Taurus for?
To make a life you can rest in. Scorpio, the sign opposite, is where intensity and control come easily, and Taurus is the practice of not needing either.
What are the dates for a North Node in Taurus?
January 1 to June 18, 1930, then July 1947 to January 1949, February 1966 to September 1967, October 1984 to April 1986, May 2003 to November 2004 and December 2021 to July 2023.
What from Scorpio is worth keeping?
The nose for what people hide, and the calm voice on the phone when a marriage ends. Keep the skill. Drop the appetite for the emergency itself.
Where can I look up my own node sign?
Type your birth date into the calculator above. Unless the node changed signs on that very day, the date settles it and no birth time is needed.
How long does Taurus keep the node, and is another stay coming?
A pass lasts a little over 18 months. The most recent one ended on July 12, 2023, and none follows before the end of 2035.
Which house is my Taurus North Node in?
A chart for your birth time and place answers that. If it lands in the 2nd, the house of earnings, worth and money take the center, and shared money and intimacy fall to the South Node in the 8th. In the 4th the point asks for a home that holds still. In the 10th it favors a career built from steady craft.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (Willmann-Bell, 1991): formulas for the ascendant, midheaven, mean node and mean Lilith
- 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.