The 16th degree of Taurus
“A man riding on an ass.”
It denotes a sluggard, a man slow and tedious in all his actions.Johannes Angelus, Astrolabium planum (1488), in Raphael, The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, 1879.
This degree covers 15°00′ to 15°59′ of Taurus.
When the Sun is on this degree
In 2026: 5 May and 6 May in the tropical zodiac; 31 May in the sidereal zodiac. The date shifts by a day from year to year.
In the directory
- Godfrey Higgins: Uranus (tropical)
- Annie Besant: Mars (tropical)
- Yukteswar Giri: Mercury (tropical)
- G. R. S. Mead: Mars (sidereal)
- Bhagwan Das: Pluto (tropical)
- Grigori Rasputin: Pluto (tropical)
- Christian Morgenstern: Sun (tropical)
- Pekka Siitoin: Uranus (sidereal)
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