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Leo and Aquarius compatibility

Leo and Aquarius are opposite signs on the wheel, an opposition of about 180°: fire and air, both fixed. Astrology reads the angle between two Sun signs as the first measure of a pair, and the rest of the two charts as the rest of the story.

This year the Sun is in Leo from 22 July to 23 August and in Aquarius from 20 January to 18 February. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Leo and an Aquarius, where chance would give about 8.2: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 18th most common pairing of the 78. A Sun sign is one placement of ten, and the two whole charts say far more than the two signs.

Each sign has its own page: Leo and Aquarius, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Leo and Aquarius couples, scored chart against chart.How do your two charts compare?Compare two whole charts, free: every angle between your planets

What astrology reads for Leo and Aquarius

Opposite signs face each other across the wheel, and astrology reads an opposition between two Suns as attraction with a question in it. The two signs share a modality and belong to elements that feed each other, so the pair wants to act in the same rhythm from complementary strengths, and each tends to carry what the other has left out. The tradition reads this as the angle of the classic couple: the one people notice.

What each sign lacks, the opposite sign has, and the reading is that this is both the pull and the problem. Oppositions tend to swing between fascination and exasperation, each person wanting the quality they admire in the other and resenting it on the same day. Astrologers read the pairing as one that learns balance by living without it first, and look to the Moons and the rising signs for how the swing settles.

Fire with air

Fire with air is read as the pairing that feeds itself: air gives fire room to burn and fire gives air something to be excited about. The tradition reads these two as talkative, restless and fast, good company for each other and inclined to keep moving rather than settle. The reading's question is where the stillness comes from, since neither element supplies much of it.

Fixed with fixed

Both signs are fixed, the signs of the middle of a season, and the tradition reads two fixed people as loyal, stubborn and built to last. Each holds to a position; neither gives way easily. The reading is of a pair that stays once it has decided to, and that may have to be careful which disagreements it decides to keep.

These are readings of the Sun signs alone, written for reflection and entertainment. They describe tendencies the tradition assigns to an angle, not two people, and they do not say whether a pair lasts.

Leo in love, Aquarius in love

Leo

In love, Leo is romantic in the old sense: grand gestures, open admiration, a wish to be adored and to adore back. It needs appreciation the way other signs need space. Its lesson is that affection shown quietly counts too, and that a partner is not an audience.

Aquarius

In love, Aquarius starts from friendship and never quite leaves it. It needs space and conversation, resists possessiveness, and can seem detached when it is simply thinking. Its lesson is that intimacy is not a loss of freedom, and that feelings do not have to be reasonable to be said.

520 famous people have the Sun in Leo for certain and 530 in Aquarius: every Leo Sun and every Aquarius Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Leo and Aquarius couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Leo and Aquarius. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 8.2, a ratio of 1.10, which makes this the 18th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted. With about seven couples a cell, a ratio between a half and double is what chance produces; the counts describe the dataset, not the signs.

3 more on the couples page. All famous couples, each scored from both birth charts.

Both signs in one chart

The two signs also meet inside one chart, when the Sun is in one and the Moon in the other. Astrologers read a Sun and Moon opposite signs the way they read the two Suns above, as an opposition between how a person is seen and how they feel.

Only people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Aquarius and the Moon in Leo have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Leo and Aquarius compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Leo and Aquarius as an opposition, opposite signs: fire and air, both fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 9 are Leo and Aquarius, against about 8.2 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.10. The angles between two whole charts, Moon to Moon and Venus to Mars among them, say more than the Sun signs can; the comparison is free on StarMap.

How many famous couples are Leo and Aquarius?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate among them. Chance alone would give about 8.2, which makes it the 18th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Aquarius?

24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Aquarius, Andrew Garfield, Helen Mirren and Viola Davis among them. 24 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Leo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paris Hilton and Dan Quayle among them. The Moon's sign depends on the day and often on the hour of birth, so only people whose Moon sign is certain are counted.

Sun signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, in the tropical zodiac. Birth data and relationship data come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, from Astro-Databank with their Rodden rating. A couple is counted only when the Sun was in one sign for the whole of each birth date. Readings describe what the tradition assigns to an angle, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Compare two whole charts.

Photo credits (18 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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