Taurus at a Glance.
 Element - Earth
 Ruling Planet - Venus
 Career Planet - Uranus
 Love Planet - Pluto
 Money Planet - Mercury
 Planet of Health and Work - Venus
 Planet of Home and Family Life - Sun
 Planet of Fun ,Creativity and Entertainment - Saturn  

Colors
Colors - earth tones, green, orange, yellow
Colors that promote love, romance and social harmony - red-violet, violet
Colors that promote earning power - yellow, yellow-orange

Gem - coral, emerald

Metal - copper

Scents - bitter almond, rose, vanilla, violet

Strongest virtues - endurance, loyalty, patience, stability, a harmonious disposition

Deepest needs - comfort, material ease, wealth

Characteristics to avoid - rigidity, stubbornness, tendency to be overly possessive and materialistic

Compatibility
Signs of greatest overall compatibility - Virgo, Capricorn
Signs of greatest overall incompatibility - Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius
Signs most helpful to career - Aquarius
Sign most helpful for emotional support - Leo
Sign most helpful financially - Gemini
Sign best for marriage and/or partnership - Scorpio
Sign most helpful for creative projects - Virgo
Best sign to have fun with - Virgo
Signs most helpful in spiritual matters - Aries, Capricorn
Best day of the week - Friday

Understanding a Taurus
Taurus is the most earthy of all the Earth Signs. If you understand that Earth is more than just a physical element, that it is psychological atitude as well, you will get a better understanding of the Taurus personality.
Taureans are not satisfied with action fot its own sake. Their actions must be productive, practical and wealth-producing. If Taureans cannot see a practical value in an action they will not bother taking it.
They are generally not very inventive but they can naother's invention and perfect it, making it more practical and useful. The same is true for all projects. Taureans are not especially keen on starting new projects, but once they get involved they bring things to completion. A Taurus carries everything through. Their finishers and will go to the distance so long as no unavoidable calamity intervenes.
Many people find Taureans too stubborn, conservative, fixed and immovable. This is understandable, because Taureans dislike change - in their environment or in their routine. Taureans even dislike changing their minds! On the other hand, this is their virtue. It is not good for a wheel's axle to waver. The axel must be fixed, stable and unmovable. Taureans are the axle of society and the heavens. Without their stability and so-called stubbornness, the wheels of the world (and especially the wheels of commerce) would not turn.
Taureans love routine. A routine, if it is good, has many virtues. It is a fixed - and, ideally, perfect - way of taking care of things. While an Aries loves speed, a Taurus likes things slow. They are slow thinkers - but it do not make the mistake of assuming they lack intelligence. On the contrary, Taureans are very intelligent. It is just they like to chew on ideas, to deliberate and weigh them up. Only after due deliberation is an idea accepted or a decision taken. Taureans are slow to anger - but once aroused, take care!