Taurus's glyph (♉) is a bull's head and horns — likely the oldest continuously tracked constellation in the zodiac, with two separate bull myths behind it a thousand years apart. Click any symbol to copy it instantly.
The Taurus symbol (♉, U+2649) is a circle topped with two curved horns — a stylized bull's head. The familiar version of the myth is Greek: Zeus disguises himself as a white bull to abduct Europa, then swims her across the sea to Crete. But that story is comparatively recent. Astronomers and historians trace tracking of the Taurus constellation back to Bronze-Age Mesopotamia, where it was linked to the ‘Bull of Heaven’ — the beast the goddess Ishtar sends to kill Gilgamesh in the Epic of Gilgamesh — likely making it the oldest continuously observed zodiac constellation, predating the Europa story by over a thousand years. Taurus runs April 20–May 20, is ruled by Venus, and is an Earth sign with Fixed modality.
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The planet and classical element traditionally associated with Taurus.
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