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Leo and Scorpio compatibility

Leo and Scorpio are three signs apart on the wheel, a square of about 90°: fire and water, 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 Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November. 8 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Leo and a Scorpio, where chance would give about 8.9: Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone and Jennifer Lopez and Drake among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 23rd 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 Scorpio, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

8 famous Leo and Scorpio 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 Scorpio

Three signs apart is the square, and astrology reads it as friction with a purpose. The two signs share a modality, so both want to act in the same way, by starting, by holding or by adapting, but from elements that do not mix, and each tends to feel that the other is doing the right thing in the wrong manner. The tradition is plain that this angle is felt: these are the pairs that argue about how.

It is also, in the same tradition, the angle that gets things built. Two Suns at a square give each other something to push against, and astrologers read the pairing as one in which both people grow because neither can settle. What the reading asks is that the friction be aimed at the task rather than at each other; the rest of the two charts, the Moons and Venus especially, says how easily that happens.

Fire with water

Fire with water is read as the pairing of two strong feelings that do not speak the same language: fire shows what it feels by acting, water by sensing. The tradition reads the pair as intense, with a pull that is easy to feel and a rhythm that is hard to find, since fire tends to move on from a mood that water is still in. Astrologers read it as the pairing most changed by the rest of the two charts.

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, Scorpio 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.

Scorpio

In love, Scorpio does not do casual well. It wants the whole person and offers the same, and it reads a partner closely enough to be unnerving. Betrayal is not forgiven quickly. Its lesson is that intimacy needs some air, and that loyalty cannot be proved by jealousy.

520 famous people have the Sun in Leo for certain and 466 in Scorpio: every Leo Sun and every Scorpio Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Leo and Scorpio couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 8 are Leo and Scorpio. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 8.9, a ratio of 0.90, which makes this the 23rd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 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.

2 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 three signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a square 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 Scorpio and the Moon in Leo have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Leo and Scorpio compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Leo and Scorpio as a square, three signs apart: fire and water, 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, 8 are Leo and Scorpio, against about 8.9 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.90. 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 Scorpio?

8 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone and Jennifer Lopez and Drake among them. Chance alone would give about 8.9, which makes it the 23rd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Scorpio, Roger Federer, Ben Affleck and Louis de Funès among them. 17 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Leo, Julia Roberts, Peter Jackson and Hedy Lamarr 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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