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Leo and Capricorn compatibility

Leo and Capricorn are five signs apart on the wheel, a quincunx of about 150°: fire and earth, one fixed and one cardinal. 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 Capricorn from 21 December to 20 January. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Leo and a Capricorn, where chance would give about 8.9: Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie and Iman and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Aristotle Onassis among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 16th 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 Capricorn, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Leo and Capricorn 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 Capricorn

Five signs apart is the quincunx, the angle the tradition reads as adjustment. The two signs share neither element nor modality and sit too far apart to be opposites, so there is no obvious ground in common and no obvious contest either. Astrologers describe these pairs as two people who keep finding that a word means something slightly different to each of them.

The reading is of a relationship that is made rather than found. Nothing comes free, and what the two people share has usually been built deliberately, from an interest in how differently the other one sees things. The tradition reads this angle as the one that most rewards curiosity and most punishes assumption, and leaves it to the rest of the two charts to say which the pair is better at.

Fire with earth

A fire sign with an earth sign is read as spark and ground: one wants to start, the other wants to make it last. The tradition reads the pairing as productive when each respects what the other supplies, the fire sign bringing the impulse and the earth sign the follow-through, and wearing when each reads the other as either reckless or dull. Astrologers call it the pairing that most needs to agree on pace.

Fixed with cardinal

One sign is cardinal and one is fixed: a starter and a keeper. The tradition reads the pairing as complementary, the cardinal sign supplying new directions and the fixed sign holding to the ones worth keeping, and as a contest when the one that starts wants to start again and the one that holds has only just settled.

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, Capricorn 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.

Capricorn

In love, Capricorn is slow, careful and then constant. It shows commitment by showing up, year after year, and it finds romance easier to practise than to declare. Its lesson is that a partner wants to be let in, not only provided for.

520 famous people have the Sun in Leo for certain and 468 in Capricorn: every Leo Sun and every Capricorn Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Leo and Capricorn couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Leo and Capricorn. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 8.9, a ratio of 1.02, which makes this the 16th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 66 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 five signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a quincunx 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 Capricorn and the Moon in Leo have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Leo and Capricorn compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Leo and Capricorn as a quincunx, five signs apart: fire and earth, fixed with cardinal. 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 Capricorn, against about 8.9 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.02. 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 Capricorn?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bowie and Iman and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Aristotle Onassis among them. Chance alone would give about 8.9, which makes it the 16th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 66 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

21 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Capricorn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Hetfield and Richard Griffiths among them. 25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Leo, Marlene Dietrich, David Bowie and Marilyn Manson 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.

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