Moon in Taurus
Moon in Taurus means your feelings are steady and slow to change, and they live in your body. You feel safe when your body is comfortable and your days are predictable: good food, a warm bed, the same people around you.
Taurus is an earth sign and a fixed one, so the emotional self here wants to stay put. Once you've settled into a feeling, a place or a person, you stay settled.
Exalted, and what that means
Traditional astrology says the Moon is exalted in Taurus. In plain words, the Moon's job (needing, resting, being soothed) runs with unusual ease here, because Taurus already knows how to look after a body. It isn't a prize. It means the gap between what you feel and what you need is small, and you can usually tell what would help: a meal, a bath, a nap, a hand on your back.
You show it in ordinary ways. You keep the same mug for years. You know which side of the bed is yours and you notice when someone else has slept on it. When a friend is upset, you don't make a speech; you put the kettle on and find them a blanket.
The slow fuse
A Taurus Moon takes a long time to get angry. People push and push and you stay pleasant, and they decide you don't mind. Then one day you do, and it's final. You don't shout so much as stop moving: the refusal is the anger. Nobody gets you out of a chair you've decided to stay in.
As a child you needed routine and physical care: meals on time, the same bedtime, being held, not being moved from house to house. If those were missing, you learned to make your own comfort, and you still guard it closely.
What steadiness costs
The same quality that keeps you calm in a crisis makes change hard. You stay in the job, the apartment or the relationship past its end, because leaving means starting the comfort over from nothing. Surprises, even good ones, take you a day to forgive.
Comfort also turns into a way of not feeling things. A bad week becomes a week of takeout and television, and the hurt waits for Monday.
With the rest of your chart
The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, so your birth date, and ideally your time, decide whether it's really in Taurus. See what a missing birth time changes.
A Taurus Sun alongside it doubles the steadiness. A fire or air Sun pulls against it, and you feel the tug between wanting to go and wanting to stay home. With Taurus rising, the calm is the first thing people see. The Moon sign guide explains how the Moon fits into the whole chart.
Questions
Why is the Moon exalted in Taurus?
Tradition places it there because Taurus is about the body, comfort and keeping what you have, which is close to what the Moon needs anyway. The two work in the same direction.
Is a Taurus Moon stubborn?
Yes, about the things that keep it safe: routines, people, the way a home is kept. On anything that doesn't touch those, it's easygoing.
Is Moon in Taurus rare?
No. The Moon spends about two and a half days in each sign every month, so every Moon sign is about equally common.