♉ Taurus — neck and throat
Second sign / cervical-throat region
Taurus follows the head in the traditional descent and is assigned to the neck and throat. Its midline anchor indicates the cervical-throat region in the front view while retaining the sign's symbolic rather than physiological status.
Point 2 of 12 in Zodiac Man — Melothesia (Homo signorum)
Cross-tradition overlaps
- ♉ Taurus — neck and throat ↔ ♉ Taurus — jaw, throat, and neck (distance 0.015)
Sources
Zodiac man (homo signorum) diagram, Wellcome Collection M0017629 (primary_canonical)
Fifteenth-century Zodiac Man diagram assigning zodiac signs to descending bodily regions from head toward feet.
Nicholas Culpeper, Semeiotica Uranica, or, An Astronomicall Judgment of Diseases (secondary_translation)
Later English medical-astrology tradition translating celestial significations into bodily and disease correspondences.