Taurus and Leo: 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, earth cold and dry, so they share dryness only. Fire proposes and earth tests; the tradition reads the pairing as one of drive meeting caution.

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

The rulers

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

Venus stands for: value, attraction, pleasure, taste. Sun stands for: identity, vitality, purpose, will.

The two signs together

Taurus tends to bring steadiness: patience, loyalty to what it has chosen, and a feel for comfort. It tends to need time, and no sudden changes of plan.

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

Both like comfort and both want to be appreciated. Both are also fixed: when they disagree neither moves, and it can take a long time to show.

What tends to come easily

• +Strong motivation; each pushes the other to act.
• +Fire starts things and earth finishes them.
• +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.
• −Fire hears caution as obstruction, and earth hears enthusiasm as haste.
• −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.