2021 Taurus Horoscope Preview
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Taurus Horoscopes, the Year 2021: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Taurus. The full Taurus 2021 Yearly Horoscope is also available.
This forecast applies for those with their Sun in Taurus (born approximately* April 20th to May 21st) and for those with a Taurus Ascendant most significantly.
2021 Taurus Horoscope Preview
The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Taurus for the year 2021, exploring the main themes Taurus can expect during the year.
(Click on any sign above to navigate to that sign’s preview horoscope).
Areas of Expansion in 2021 for Taurus:
Your Taurus 2021 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.
- Career
- Status
- Reputation
- Friendships
- Community
- Business Income
- Associates
- Dreams/Happiness Goals
Until May 13th, 2021, and then July 28th-December 28th, 2021, Jupiter has now climbed to the top of your solar chart. Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation are blossoming, developing, and growing. Your talents and skills are recognized in wonderful ways, and in ways that you haven’t experienced for at least the last twelve years. All of the hard work you’ve put in begins to pay off and is rewarded – or at the very least, recognized. This influence is in play much of 2021, having begun in December 2020.
You are in the limelight in some way during this cycle. Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level, and you should take advantage of it, choose your projects carefully. Don’t take on more than you can handle.
Watch also for gossip or mishandling of information. Be wary of situations that could get blown out of proportion or misunderstood. While Jupiter bestows gifts, these can be wasted if we go to great excess. As well, because Jupiter, which rules expansion, is in Saturn’s sign, which rules contraction, it’s best not to go overboard. Saturn is concurrently in the same place in your solar chart, and its influence is to help keep you in check!
This can be a time of significant progress in the outer world, a fortunate change in status, and increased recognition. For the most part, this progress supports inner growth and healing, particularly evident in January. However, tensions between your strong desire for personal independence and freedom this year and your simultaneous urge to pursue your ambitions are most likely to also occur in January. Avoiding taking on too much will be vital for keeping things in check.
With this transit, there are several possible scenarios that depend on your particular situation (whether this is about career, life path, authority, responsibility, or a turning point or peak). Your hard work and effort can be recognized now. You could find yourself in a position that truly suits you. It can be a time when you take great pride in the work you do.
For some of you, more prestige or a higher social standing may be part of the picture now. You can be quite charismatic in a position of authority or responsibility. Advancement in achieving an important goal can occur now. Your reputation may be enhanced in some significant way. Certainly, you have more faith in your goals and aspirations during this period of your life.
This is a time when believing in yourself, your competency, and your ability to take the lead opens up opportunities for you. For the most part, you are likely to take advantage of this period in your life in order to expand your reach. You’re in a period in which you find considerably more joy in your work or feel particularly good about where you’re heading.
You might also be managing others’ money, talents, or resources in some manner during this trend. You are especially intuitive, strategic, and smart with plans at this time, helping you advance towards your goals.
Your worldly or public status may change for the better. There could be a promotion, new job opportunities, a diploma, an important award, or marriage — something official.
This can be a time for coming into the limelight in a significant way. Authority figures or other influential people tend to look upon you favorably, see more potential in you, and readily help you along, so be sure to work it!
Something might happen now, or circumstances are such, that your career (or professional interests in general) expands, and you find more joy and pleasure from your work. You could enjoy more freedom, or possibly even responsibilities, in your career. Either way, it’s a move for the better in your mind.
Integrity, directness, and honesty will get you everywhere now. The more willing you are to put yourself in the limelight, the more positive the rewards–this is not the time to be a shrinking violet!
There can be a chance to clinch a project or job or to handle a particular responsibility. There can be a career peak of sorts happening now.
Interestingly, while this influence encourages you to expand, grow, and reach for the stars in the areas of career, you’ll see that another theme in your life, explored below (in the Areas of Contraction section), encourages the opposite. This can help you come to a productive balance. Ideally, you don’t swing between expanding and contracting. Instead, you come to a good balance.
From May 13-July 28, 2021, and then from December 28th onward, your connections to others, group associations, and friendships begin to expand and grow. This influence begins in 2021 and will continue in 2022. It’s a pleasant, supportive transit that only comes around approximately every 12 years.
This is a time for feeling considerably more confident about the future. You’re also gaining confidence in your ability to set plans in motion that will allow you to accomplish some of your most cherished hopes and dreams.
It’s a time when you can be filled with ideas about the future. You are planting seeds, so to speak, aiming to get started on projects that will reap rewards in the future. While this can be exciting, try not to take on more than you can handle. Your vision is quite optimistic, and you might overestimate what you are capable of doing down the road! However, one or two projects can be inspiring and also quite innovative.
With more contact with others, whether it’s about an expanded in-person group of connections or online, you are sure to come up with new ideas and to be inspired. Others can point you in new directions. There can be a cause that you work towards enthusiastically. A new communications project can excite you and bring you into contact with interesting, helpful people. Business income should increase.
This can be a time of budding friendships and/or group involvement. New people may come into your life and seek out your friendship, or existing friendships may be refreshed or enhanced. Opportunities to advance or for new learning experiences can come through associates, friendships, and networking. For many, this can be a strong time for an internet business.
People can be friendlier than usual to you, and you may benefit from group connections or networking. You are popular within groups, and circumstances have a way of turning in your favor. You can accomplish wonders with initiatives or causes that you believe in.
You’re in great shape for enjoying the fruits of your recent labor, promotion, and successes.
Potential challenges: Over-emphasis on activities that take you away from your practical responsibilities, too often.
However, for the most part, you are likely to take advantage of this period in your life in order to expand your social life and friends base as well as to dream up exciting new paths for the future. You’re in a particularly good position for connecting with friends and benefiting from networking and putting plans into motion. It’s also a powerful time for taking the lead of a group, organizing, and starting up a new endeavor, especially an innovative one.
Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:
Your Taurus 2021 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.
- Career
- Life Path
- Reputation
All year, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach involve the sector of your solar chart that rules career, reputation, responsibilities, long-term goals, and your life path. This is the most public area of your chart. It depends on your age or the current stage of your life, this area of your solar chart relates more to your career path or your responsibilities and public life. Authority figures are ruled by this sector of the chart as well. Again depending on your current circumstances, these can be parents, bosses, managers, the government, and teachers.
There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak 
foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen. You can help this process along by actively strengthening vulnerable areas.
This influence began and wove in and out of influence in 2020, and it’s now a consistent transit. Saturn will transit this area of your chart until March 2023.
You’ll feel this more strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Taurus. In 2021, those most directly affected by this transit are those born from approximately April 22-May 3 and those with an Ascendant of 1 to 14 degrees Taurus.
During this cycle, your career requires critical decisions and choices. Major projects may come to fruition, and this can be a time for reaping their rewards, but there can be some disappointment now as well if you haven’t achieved what you wanted to accomplish. You are certainly more accountable for what you have and haven’t done.
Projects that you have been working on behind the scenes or that you’ve left unfinished might come to fruition, or you could be using them to further your career. Your career might involve more altruistic goals or helping others could figure strongly. You may need to employ some caution with regards to elements from your past, as these might come before the public eye in some way during this cycle.
You may acquire a higher position now, and you are likely to feel the weight of increased responsibilities that come with it. There can be issues to handle with a parent or parent figure, or a boss/authority figure in your life.
While this period can be a tad difficult at times, particularly when Saturn forms a square to your Sun or Ascendant, there are some dazzling spots, making it a rewarding period overall, particularly if you focus more on long-term benefits and less on short-term frustrations.
It’s a solid time to show the world what you can do. Success can be realized now. If you’ve been working hard at a project or endeavor, it may culminate at this time.
Booster transits this year suggest that past work can benefit your career or life path goals. You’re doing a lot of work on yourself and your relationship with your inner world, and this reflects back positively in your ability to manage your responsibilities and thrive or succeed in the outside world. You’re also recognizing your need to get on top of your income, security, and personal possessions, and as you do, your attention to your career and responsibilities improves. You’re more able to focus and prioritize this year.
Nevertheless, you can sometimes do battle with your personal needs for more freedom, spontaneity, and independence. Occasional clashes with authority are possible. When you try to express your originality or individuality, you could feel a bit off-center and ungrounded. This is a time to free yourself from certain old habits but also to establish new and healthy habits or routines.
Saturn is in another sign that it rules, Aquarius, during this period, and performs well here as a result. The last time Saturn moved through Aquarius was from 1991-early 1994. Many of you (especially those with a Taurus Ascendant – What’s My Ascendant?) will enjoy a career peak of sorts at some point during this cycle — this is a time of achievement, accomplishment, harvest, recognition, and the taking on of new responsibilities. If you’ve cut corners, however, this can be a time of dealing with those consequences and making things right.
Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed:
Your 2021 Taurus Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.
- Personality
- Independence
All year, you are compelled to make changes. This exciting transit lasts a total of approximately seven years. You’re feeling major rumblings of change again in 2021.
The image you present to the world and your personality alter quite rapidly now and in the years ahead. You are embracing change, pushing yourself beyond your normal limits, expressing your independent streak, and taking a few personal risks. This year, your ambition or the need to pay more attention to rules, career, and reputation can throw a few challenges your way and perhaps a kink or two in your plans for more freedom. However, the need to express yourself differently remains strong as Uranus transits your Sun sign.
Potential negatives: While personal changes are necessary and perhaps inevitable, foolish risk-taking and pointless rebellion are not! You don’t need to throw away everything from your past or totally clean the slate in order to express your independence. Taurus knows these things intrinsically, but with influences occurring now, it can be helpful to remind yourself. Aim to tame your urges to rebel if it’s just for the sake of it, or to prove something to the world. Answer your instincts rather than simply react to others if you feel restricted or confined.
Otherwise, this is a time for discovering your own unique path, and you may be making a bit of a splash as you forge ahead. Your sign has a reputation for being quite content and easygoing, as you tend to seek out harmony, sometimes at all costs. However, this new theme in your life suggests you won’t risk feelings of being confined, limited, or unauthentic just for some measure of peace.
Changing your career path can be in focus now, and it affects your sense of freedom and the expression of your personality. For some, becoming your own boss can be in focus.
Tauruses most affected by this transit in 2021 are those born April 27-May 4 and those with an Ascendant of 7-15 degrees Taurus.
Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation:
Your 2021 Taurus Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”
- Beliefs
- Travel
- Attitudes & Outlook
- Communications
- Transportation
- Money/Finances
Attitudes, belief systems, and learning continue to transform this year. You may be purging some of the beliefs or attitudes that no longer work for you. There can be a wonderful exposure to a new perspective, lifestyle, or culture. Some of you might publish creative work and meet with success.
You are in excellent shape for boosting your life experiences or studies. Meeting people, even virtually, or studying new ideas or topics can be life-changing.
You are learning to ask for what you deserve and to take charge of your earnings. Throughout 2021, there is a real need to manage your income, resources, valuables, and talents, as well as great benefits for doing so.
Building a solid income or boosting your resources becomes both a challenge and a rewarding experience.
Your Planetary Ruler in 2021: Venus is your planetary ruler. Venus turns retrograde at the tail-end of the year: from December 19, 2021, to January 29, 2022. (Keep in mind there are preamble and hangover periods involved with this, and to be cautious, consider the dates from November 17th forward). This is not an ideal time for new endeavors, beginnings, or launches, but it’s a useful period for looking back and learning from the past. Rest, reflect, and reconsider.
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*Note: Why are Sun sign dates approximate? Because the beginning and end dates and times vary slightly from year to year. So, for example, the start date of Taurus can be April 20th, 1999, at 8:48 AM Eastern, but the next year, Taurus begins on April 19th, 2000, at 2:39 PM Eastern. To be sure, you can use our Sun sign calculator: What’s My Sun Sign?
