Taurus Sidereal Sign: Vrishabha
Vrishabha, the second rashi, a fixed earth bull ruled by Shukra, speaks of stability; Chandra is exalted there and has her moolatrikona there.
Stability: if a single word had to say Vrishabha, it would be that one. The second rashi in the sidereal zodiac, it runs from 30° to 60°, a fixed and earthy sign. Shukra directs it. Chandra is exalted there, at the third degree, and also has her moolatrikona there, her space of vigor. It is easy to see why she enjoys it.
It is imagined white, lying down, four-legged, looking south and powerful at night. It emerges by the back. The bull illustrates it, and it stands as the face of the cosmic being. Even, it is considered feminine and benefic, a gentleness inherent to the sign.
Its world sinks its feet into clay: market towns and merchants. You hear village life in it, the labor of the land, the trade of goods in the square. What lasts and what is exchanged.
Vrishabha embraces three quarters of Krittika, all of Rohini, and two quarters of Mrigashira. The navamshas, ninths of the sign, begin there with Makara.
A rule of method holds for all twelve rashis: what is depicted is the emblem of the sign, never the portrait of a person born under it.
Vrishabha as Lagna, the Ascendant
Who gets the bill when the group goes out to dinner? With Vrishabha as lagna, the ancient portrait often points to you. Vrishabha, Taurus of the sidereal zodiac, is a fixed sign whose lord is Shukra, Venus; the lagna, for its part, is the sign that was rising in the east when you were born.
A few traits are enough. You give without counting and money flows from your hands. You enjoy work. You are attached to the person who shares your life, with a steady attachment that is not questioned every morning. Only one rougher point: the relationship with the parents, described as difficult. Understand this as exchanges where words sometimes come out too sharply, rather than a judgment on your family.
The disagreement concerns temperament: phlegm and wind for some of the readings, wind alone for others. The helpful grahas of this lagna are Saturn, above all, and the Sun. Venus, although lord of the sign, is ranked among the contrary ones, because it also rules the sixth house, bhava 6. Other readings exempt it from this.