Sun in Taurus (Surya in Vrishabha)

The Sun in Taurus is in an enemy's sign. Taurus is ruled by Venus, and the Sun counts Venus an enemy.

The relationship runs both ways: the Sun counts Venus an enemy, and Venus counts the Sun an enemy. A mutual reading is the simpler case — the graha and its host agree about each other, so the placement does not change character depending on which of the two is stronger.

Taurus is a sthira earth sign governing the face, neck and throat, and the Sun is reckoned mild malefic, governing soul, ego, vitality, leadership, father. Whatever the Sun signifies — father, government, authority, the soul (atma), medicine, administration — is what this rashi’s fixity holds in place.

The Dignity, Stated Precisely

• In Taurus: in an enemy's sign.
• The Sun’s own sign: Leo.
• Exalted in: Aries, deepest at 10°.
• Debilitated in: Libra.
• Moolatrikona: Leo 0°–20°.
• Taurus’s lord: Venus. Taurus exalts Moon at 3° and debilitates no graha.

What the Sun Aspects From Taurus

Every graha casts a full aspect on the 7th house from itself, and the Sun has no special drishti beyond it, so the 7th is the whole of its reach. Counting from Taurus, that lands on:

• 7th from Taurus → Scorpio (Vrishchika), ruled by Mars.

Scorpio is not one of the Sun’s own rashis, so the single aspect the Sun throws from Taurus lands on Mars’s territory. Whose territory it is decides how the aspect is received.

How Far Taurus Is From the Sun’s Own Ground

A graha is read partly by how far it has been displaced from the rashi it owns, and that distance is simple counting. Counting inclusively from Leo, Taurus falls as follows:

• 10th from Leo — a square, both of them kendra houses.
• 2nd from Aries, the sign of its exaltation — a 2/12, the gain-and-loss axis.
• 8th from Libra, the sign of its fall — a 6/8 — the shashtashtaka relation, the most awkward of the twelve.
• Opposite Taurus stands Scorpio, ruled by Mars — the rashi the Sun faces from here, and therefore the one it aspects whatever else it does or does not aspect.

The Company the Sun Keeps in Taurus

Dignity runs in both directions, and the rashi has its own roster. Taurus runs from 30°00′ to 60°00′ of sidereal longitude — the arc the Sun crosses about May 15 – Jun 14 — faces south, is classed female, and as an earth sign is of the Vaishya varna. Within those thirty degrees:

• Ruled by Venus.
• Exalts Moon at 3° — not the Sun, so the strongest single degree of Taurus is not the Sun’s.
• Debilitates no graha. No graha reaches its lowest point inside Taurus.
• Moolatrikona of Moon, 4°–30°.

So Taurus carries a fixed dignity point inside it, and the closer the Sun sits to that degree the more the reading is dominated by it rather than by the sign as a whole. Taurus’s own traits — reliable, patient, devoted, stubborn, sensual — are the register in which soul, ego, vitality, leadership, father gets expressed when the Sun sits here.

The Nine Padas the Sun Crosses in Taurus

A rashi is thirty degrees and a pada is three degrees twenty minutes, so every sign holds exactly nine padas — never a round number of nakshatras. Taurus holds 3 nakshatras in whole or in part: Krittika (padas 2, 3, 4), Rohini and Mrigashira (padas 1, 2).

The Sun rules Krittika, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha, and one of them falls inside Taurus: Krittika (padas 2, 3, 4). Those degrees are the part of Taurus where the Sun is on its own ground regardless of what the sign lord thinks of it — a nakshatra lordship is a second, finer layer of dignity, and it does not have to agree with the first. That matters here, because it gives the Sun a foothold in a sign whose lord it counts an enemy.

When the Sun Is Actually in Taurus

This is the part of the page that is not in a textbook. Computed from the DE421 sidereal ephemeris, the Sun occupies Taurus for 2 stretches inside 2026 and 2027:

• 15 May 2026 to 15 June 2026 — 31 days, after which the Sun moves on to Gemini.
• 15 May 2027 to 15 June 2027 — 31 days, after which the Sun moves on to Gemini.

Dates rather than clock times, because that is what a placement question needs. The ingress instants are computed and are printed on the monthly readings, where they matter for choosing a day.

Reading the Sun in Taurus

The Sun signifies father, government, authority, the soul (atma), medicine, administration. In Taurus those significations are filtered through a sthira earth sign ruled by Venus, and the dignity above says how much support they get in the process. In an enemy’s sign they meet resistance from the host, and the results tend to arrive late or in a form the native did not ask for.

This is not a prediction, and it cannot be one: the house Taurus occupies from the ascendant, which of the nine padas above holds the graha, and the running dasha all change the answer. The Sun is reckoned mild malefic, and it gains in the 1st, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th while it struggles in the 4th, 7th and 12th — so Sun in Taurus is a different placement in each of them. Under Kaal Purush Taurus is the 2nd bhava, so Sun in the 2nd house is the same pairing read from the bhava side, with the Taurus transit dated for each of the twelve ascendants.

For what the Sun does when strong and when afflicted, its 6-year mahadasha, and the full remedy set, see the Sun (Surya) page. The short form: the Sun’s day is Sunday, its gemstone is Ruby (Manik), its mantra is Om Suryaya Namah, and its deities are Surya, invoked through the Aditya Hridayam.

Sun in the Other Eleven Rashis

The Other Eight Grahas in Taurus