♌ Leo + ♒ Aquarius · fire and air · opposite signs

Leo and Aquarius compatibility

Straight across the wheel: the heart of one, and the good of all.

Leo: July 23 – August 22. Aquarius: January 20 – February 18.

Are Leo and Aquarius a good match?

Tradition calls it a magnetic match and a demanding one. It works when you stop arguing about which end of the rope is the right one.

I will not hand you a percentage. A number like that is invented, and a Sun sign is one line of a long letter. Two people of any signs can love each other well.

What draws you together

You are opposite ends of one question, which is how to be a singular person among other people. Leo brings warmth, Aquarius brings a mind, and the attraction tends to feel electric and unexpected.

The hard part

Leo needs personal adoration, and Aquarius distributes its attention to everybody. Both of you are fixed, and neither will back down from what is plainly the right position.

How your signs sit on the wheel

You sit straight across the wheel from each other, the angle astrologers call an opposition. You move through the world the same way, from opposite ends of one question. This is the strongest pull on the wheel, and also the strongest tug of war.

Air feeds fire. One of you brings the spark and the other brings the breath, and together you tend to feel more alive than you do apart.

You are both keepers. Neither of you moves easily, which makes for great loyalty, and for silences that can last a season.

What each of you is really asking

Leo is asking: Do you see me, truly, when the room is empty? Leo brings warmth and fears being ordinary in the eyes of the one who matters.

Aquarius is asking: Can I belong to you and still belong to myself? Aquarius brings honest strangeness and fears being absorbed.

The desire under the question

Leo wants to be special to you. Aquarius wants not to owe you that. Your love begins the day you each stop treating that as an argument.

Finish this line, privately

I want ___ ; I accept ___ ; I will not surrender ___ .

Fill it in about this person. Whatever you write first is usually the truth.

Both of your dates

Two signs are only the first line.

Bring both birth dates and I'll set your signs side by side, free. If you want to stay a little longer, the Lovers' Ledger opens both charts, the pull between you, and the conversation you keep not having. One reading, $14.

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