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Taurus and Leo compatibility

Taurus and Leo are three signs apart on the wheel, a square of about 90°: earth and fire, 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 Taurus from 20 April to 21 May and in Leo from 22 July to 23 August. 10 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Taurus and a Leo, where chance would give about 7.8: Madonna and Dennis Rodman, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas and Orson Welles and Dolores del Río among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 11th 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: Taurus and Leo, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

10 famous Taurus and Leo 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 Taurus and Leo

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.

Earth with fire

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 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.

Taurus in love, Leo in love

Taurus

In love, Taurus is slow to begin and slow to end. Affection shows in presence rather than declarations: cooking, turning up, remembering. The sign wants a settled life with someone and is unsettled by games and sudden changes. Its lesson is that holding on tightly is not the same as holding well.

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.

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

Famous Taurus and Leo couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 10 are Taurus and Leo. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 7.8, a ratio of 1.27, which makes this the 11th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 69 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.

4 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 Leo and the Moon in Taurus have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Taurus and Leo compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Taurus and Leo as a square, three signs apart: earth and fire, 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, 10 are Taurus and Leo, against about 7.8 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.27. 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 Taurus and Leo?

10 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Madonna and Dennis Rodman, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas and Orson Welles and Dolores del Río among them. Chance alone would give about 7.8, which makes it the 11th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 69 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

27 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Leo, Megan Fox, Barbra Streisand and Eva Perón among them. 20 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Leo and the Moon in Taurus, Demi Lovato, Mick Jagger and Ron Paul 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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