♉ Taurus — ecliptic 30° to 60°

Thirty degrees is the entire width of one sign, and it is also the gap between the Aries center and the Taurus center. The conjunction orb in this engine is 8°. A 30° gap is 22° past that allowance, so the two neighboring signs are not a conjunction. People often talk about “Aries–Taurus cusp” as if the engine blended the signs. It does not. Longitude 29.9° is Aries. Longitude 30.0° is Taurus.

Venus rules Taurus. Venus also rules Libra, and those two centers are 150° apart (45° to 195°). One hundred fifty degrees misses opposition by 30° and misses the trine by 30°, both wider than the 8° orb. The engine therefore records no major aspect between the two Venus-ruled signs. That is a property of the angles, not a judgment about the planet. The other Venus fact people expect — a soft link between Taurus and Libra — is not in the aspect table.

Taurus is fixed earth. Virgo is mutable earth and Capricorn is cardinal earth. The trine partners, at 120°, are those other earth signs: Virgo and Capricorn, each with an 8° orb. Scorpio is the opposition at 180°. Leo and Aquarius are the squares at 90°. Cancer and Pisces are the sextiles at 60°, and they are the pair that uses the tighter 6° orb. Aries and Gemini, the neighbors, stay at 30° and are unscored. Knowing the Sun was in Taurus fixes only this 30° solar sector. Houses, the Ascendant, and Venus’s own sign still require a timed chart.