April 22 zodiac sign
With the Sun at about 2° Taurus on April 22, the sign is in its first fresh degrees and the Venus-ruled decan gives work a steady, unhurried rhythm.
Sun signTaurus
- Sun at 0°–4° Taurus
- 1st decan · Venus
April 22 in profile
Taurus is fixed earth, the sign that holds and builds, and its first decan is ruled by Venus twice: once as the sign’s own ruler and once as sub-ruler. At 2° the sign is new and undiluted. An April 22 Taurus has a clear sense of what feels right, tastes right and lasts. They are calm on the surface and stubborn underneath, with a rare ability to keep going long after others have lost interest.
At work they are the reliable centre of the team. They arrive prepared, finish what they promise and dislike changes announced at the last minute. They prefer a good chair, a tidy desk and a predictable schedule. Quality matters more than speed. Colleagues bring them the projects that need patience, such as long contracts, careful budgets or anything that must be built properly the first time.
Decisions take time and then hold firm. They gather facts, sleep on it, ask someone they trust and then commit. In a shop they may visit the same sofa three times before buying it. Once chosen, the path is hard to shift, which is a strength in a crisis and a weakness when circumstances change. A review date set for every big decision makes changing course a planned step instead of a defeat.
Taurus all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Taurus for the whole of April 22, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around April 21 and May 20.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on April 22 every year; the Moon is not. It changes sign every two and a half days, so people who share this birthday can have any of the twelve Moon signs. Here is where it was on April 22 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Pisces
- 2018Cancer → Leo
- 2019Sagittarius
- 2020Aries → Taurus
- 2021Leo → Virgo
- 2022Capricorn
- 2023Taurus → Gemini
- 2024Libra
- 2025Aquarius
- 2026Cancer
Compatible signs for a Taurus
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Taurus gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an April 22 birthday
Something they will touch every working day: a weighty fountain pen, a desk lamp with warm light or a properly comfortable chair cushion in a natural fabric.
Asked about April 22
What zodiac sign is April 22?
April 22 is Taurus in every year: the Sun is at about 0°–4° Taurus that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is April 22 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Taurus on April 22. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around April 21 and May 20. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is April 22?
April 22 falls in the 1st decan of Taurus. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Taurus and its ruler Venus, which colours the Taurus Sun with a little of Taurus.
Your birthday is only the Sun
An April 22 birthday tells you where the Sun was. The Moon, the Rising sign and eight more planets each sit somewhere of their own, and they depend on the year, the hour and the place. The free calculator shows all of them.