I swear, people think this astrology stuff is all fluffy nonsense, but when you’ve seen the evidence piled up on your own kitchen table, you start paying attention. I started digging into the Pisces-Taurus dynamic because my cousin, bless his idealistic heart, finally cornered himself into an engagement with a girl who is a textbook, stubborn Taurus. The love is there, no doubt, but the timing of their ceremony? That’s what can make or break the whole damned thing, and I decided to take it upon myself to map it out.
The Messy Start: Pulling the Charts
My first move? I dragged out the old almanacs and ephemerides I keep stacked in the garage. I didn’t just Google this. I needed to see the actual planetary placements for every single week of the upcoming year. I pulled up both their natal charts—I already had the data from years of messing around—and identified the core conflict points. Pisces, ruled by dreamy, foggy Neptune, and Taurus, ruled by grounded, beautiful Venus. They are Earth and Water; they can mix, but they can also create mud or a landslide.
I started ruling out entire months right away. Forget October. Neptune will be doing some nasty squares to Saturn, making every emotional conversation feel like moving a ton of bricks. The dreamy Pisces will feel shut down, and the Taurus will get extra rigid. I penciled a giant ‘X’ across the entire second half of October.
Then I looked hard at Venus. This is the Taurus ruler, the planet of love and money. If Venus is retrograde, you’ve got trouble right in River City. You are asking for relationship issues, financial squabbles, and problems with the caterer. I locked down the typical Venus retro period for the year and circled those dates in bright red permanent marker. We’re talking three solid weeks you absolutely must dodge. You think you’re saving money or that the venue is perfect? I guarantee you, that backward moving Venus will introduce chaos. I’ve seen it happen.
Finding the “Happy Zone” – The Practical Process
The sweet spot? We needed a time when Venus is strong (Taurus is happy), and Neptune isn’t causing too much trouble (Pisces isn’t feeling confused or betrayed). I started searching for the Venus exaltation month, which usually falls in the late spring—think April and May. Taurus loves May. It’s their birthday month, everything feels steady, and Venus is usually moving fast and forward.
But then I cross-referenced the Moon’s nodes. You can’t marry during an eclipse season, plain and simple. So I slashed out the three days either side of both the Solar and Lunar eclipses. That took another two weeks off the calendar. What I was left with was a surprisingly small window.
I finished plotting the final clean dates. The best window? Early May. The absolute worst date to avoid? I isolated one single day in November where Mars was squaring Venus while the Sun was squaring Neptune. If you married then, you’d be guaranteeing a divorce based on money fights and emotional manipulation within five years. That date got a skull and crossbones drawn next to it on my chart.
Why I Bothered: The Hard-Earned Lesson
You’re probably thinking, why am I, a grown man who deals with code and machinery most of the day, spending weeks tracking celestial bodies for a cousin’s wedding? It all goes back to my own disaster, years ago.
When my ex and I decided to get married, we just picked a date that was cheap. That was it. No checking charts, no looking at transits. We wanted a fall wedding, so we settled on a Saturday in late September, thinking it was just a nice time of year.
The moment I started studying this stuff years later, I yanked up the chart for our specific wedding day. And I swear, I felt my stomach drop. We had married on a day when Mercury was just starting to go retrograde, Mars was opposite the Moon, and Neptune was completely throttling our composite relationship chart. I shook my head. We thought the massive fight my dad and her mom had about the seating arrangements was just random stress. We thought the total failure of the sound system was just bad luck. We thought the fact that we spent the first six months of marriage fighting over furniture was just us “adjusting.”
It wasn’t just adjusting. It was the chart fulfilling its promise of unnecessary conflict, expense, and confusion. We wasted years navigating the planetary fallout of one stupidly chosen afternoon.
After that, I vowed I would never let another person I cared about walk blind into that minefield. I called up my cousin, laid out the whiteboard chart for him over video, and told him the dates that were non-negotiable avoids. He thanked me, said he was going to shift his plans, and that’s why I published the general findings here. It’s simple geometry, people. Don’t be like me. Don’t let a bad date define your first decade.
The Takeaway List (Avoid These Periods)
- Any time Venus is Retrograde: I checked the dates, and you absolutely must avoid the window from late July into early September. Do not sign a contract or a marriage certificate then.
- The Late October Slump: That period when Neptune and Saturn are talking? Just run away. It will be all disillusionment and disappointment.
- Specific High-Clash Days: I locked down that one poison day in November. Look up where Mars squares Venus in your own chart for the year and steer clear.
Stick to early May. Venus is strong, the Earth is steady, and the Pisces can handle the water flow. Keep it simple.
