Leo and Scorpio: sign compatibility

The aspect between the signs

A square joins two signs of the same modality in different elements. It is the traditional aspect of tension: both want to do the same kind of thing, whether starting, holding or adjusting, and each does it in a way the other finds unnatural.

Elements and modalities

Fire is hot and dry, water cold and moist: they share no quality, and the classical scheme counts them as the most opposed pair of elements. Water can put out fire, and fire can evaporate water.

Both signs hold on: fixed signs sit in the middle of a season and resist being moved.

The rulers

One ruler is a light (Sun or Mars) and the other a personal planet. The first stands for core identity or need, the second for a way of acting, relating or thinking.

Sun stands for: identity, vitality, purpose, will. Mars stands for: drive, anger, initiative, courage.

Modern astrology also assigns Pluto to Scorpio. The reading here uses the traditional rulers; the modern ones are in the table.

The two signs together

Leo tends to bring warmth: generosity, loyalty and a flair for making things an occasion. It tends to need appreciation, said aloud and meant.

Scorpio tends to bring depth: loyalty, focus and willingness to stay with what is difficult. It tends to need trust that is shown rather than asked for, and privacy that is respected.

Two fixed signs, both proud and both intense. Loyalty is strong, and so is the unwillingness of either to be first to back down.

What tends to come easily

• +Strong motivation; each pushes the other to act.
• +Each has something the other lacks: warmth on one side, depth on the other.
• +Loyalty and persistence on both sides.
• +One sets the tone and the other supplies the method.

What tends to cost something

• −Friction is regular, and it usually comes from method rather than from aim.
• −The same intensity is felt by one as too much and by the other as too little.
• −Stalemates, because neither gives way.
• −Core needs and daily habits can pull in different directions.

What two Sun signs cannot say

Two Sun signs are a small part of two charts. The Moon, Venus, Mars, the rising sign and the houses of each person shape how a relationship goes, and so do age, circumstance and choice.

The aspect here is counted between signs, not between degrees. Two people born at the start and at the end of the same sign stand differently from two born at the same degree, and this page cannot tell which applies.