Birthdays

Born on April 21

Sun sign
Taurus — every year, 1940–2030
Sun degrees
0°30′ Taurus – 1°54′ Taurus · noon UTC, 1940–2030
Decan
first decan of Taurus — traditional ruler Venus
This year
April 21, 2026: Sun 1°23′ Taurus · Moon in Gemini at noon UTC

The zodiac’s most patient sign starts its year here. April 21 is the first date wholly inside Taurus — opening degrees, Venus-ruled first decan, the boundary a safe day behind. Where last week’s birthdays carry leftover sparks, this one starts fresh on solid ground — a quietly enviable position on the calendar.

Earth, newly arrived

Day-one Taurus is the sign at its most literal: settle, taste, build. The Taurus Sun here hasn’t acquired the later sign’s elaborations — it wants good meals, kept promises, a bed worth returning to, and the time to enjoy each without a countdown running. There’s a freshness to this cut of the Bull: the steadiness hasn’t hardened into doctrine yet, and curiosity about comfort — new recipes, new routes to calm — stays genuinely open. People find April 21 restful the way an unhurried room is restful: nothing is being performed, and the ease turns out to be structural.

Slow love, sound work

Affection here moves at ground speed: interest, then attention, then roots — no stage skipped, none rushed. What April 21 offers a partner is presence without performance; what it asks is consistency, since wobble reads as warning. At work this date lays foundations — the colleague whose estimates hold, whose midweek output matches Monday’s promise, whose calm makes deadlines feel less like cliffs. Trades, crafts, kitchens, gardens, care: anywhere quality accumulates, this birthday thrives.

Digging in before surveying

The friction of young fixity: April 21 can plant its feet on the first patch of ground it likes, before checking whether the ground deserves it — the adequate job kept a decade, the good-enough arrangement never renegotiated. The growth edge is separating steadiness from settlement. Stay slow, but survey first; roots do their best work in chosen soil, and a season of looking costs less than a decade of settling.

Everything above is Sun-sign weather. The climate — where the stubbornness builds, what it protects, how it greets strangers — is chart-wide, and the birth chart maps it from your exact hour and town.

The date, answered

What zodiac sign is April 21?

Taurus. In every year from 1940 through 2030, the Sun is in Taurus on April 21 — between 0°30′ Taurus and 1°54′ Taurus at noon universal time.

Is April 21 on the cusp?

It sits close to the previous sign's boundary — about 0.5° at the nearest — but it stays on the Taurus side in every year from 1940 to 2030. Your sun sign is Taurus regardless of birth year.

What decan is April 21?

The first decan of Taurus (0°–10°), whose traditional ruler is Venus.

What degree is the Sun on April 21?

Between 0°30′ Taurus and 1°54′ Taurus at noon universal time, depending on the year — the calendar drifts about a quarter degree per year against the Sun and resets on leap years. Your exact degree needs your birth date, year, and time.

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