♌ Leo + ♓ Pisces · fire and water · five signs apart

Leo and Pisces compatibility

The one on stage, and the one who feels every note.

Leo: July 23 – August 22. Pisces: February 19 – March 20.

Are Leo and Pisces a good match?

Tradition calls it an awkward match rather than a bad one. What it runs on is fascination, and it lasts when curiosity outlives the confusion.

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 sit five signs apart, and it can be a strangely moving pairing. Leo's confidence is a kind of shelter to Pisces, and Pisces offers a tenderness and an imagination Leo has rarely had poured over it.

The hard part

Pisces can drift off just when Leo most needs attention. Leo can take over a room that Pisces needed quiet in. Leo wants clarity, and Pisces has none to give that day.

How your signs sit on the wheel

You sit five signs apart, a one-hundred-fifty-degree angle astrologers call a quincunx. You share no element and no way of moving, and you cannot see each other straight across the wheel either. Each of you keeps adjusting to a person you do not quite have the language for.

Fire and water make steam. One of you acts on a feeling while the other is still inside it, and each can feel the other is either too much or not enough.

One of you holds and the other flows. Each is a rest for the other, and each can quietly wear the other out.

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.

Pisces is asking: If I dissolve into this, will you hold the shape of me? Pisces brings tenderness without conditions and fears being too much, and then too little.

The desire under the question

Leo wants to be worshipped. Pisces wants to be rescued. Both of those are ways of avoiding being known, and you might try that instead.

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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