Leo and Scorpio Compatibility
“Two people who committed absolutely, and neither will be the first to say so again.”
Leo and Scorpio make a square in the Western zodiac, scoring 42 out of 100. That is the tie between the two signs themselves, before anything else about either person is taken into account.
The Reading · Square
Leo and Scorpio sit 90 degrees apart: a square.
Leo and Scorpio are the two proudest signs on the wheel, both fixed, and neither has ever surrendered a position to keep the peace. Leo lives in the open and gives everything away in the first hour. Scorpio gives nothing away and decided about you some time ago without mentioning it. So Leo keeps reaching for a response that Scorpio does not perform, and Scorpio keeps watching Leo hand its whole self to a room and finding it careless with something that should have been kept. The attraction is genuine and immediate, because each of you recognises in the other a person who does not do things by halves. The trouble is that you do not do the same things.
Neither of you is frightened of intensity, and neither is put off by the other's absolutes. Leo's warmth reaches a Scorpio that most people never get near, and a Scorpio who has been drawn out by a Leo is drawn out completely. Scorpio in turn takes Leo seriously, past the performance, and being seen rather than admired is something a Leo will hold onto for years. Loyalty is total on both sides once given, and neither of you leaves easily.
Control is the fight. Scorpio manages by withholding, Leo by escalating, and each method is precisely calibrated to enrage the other. Scorpio's silences read to Leo as punishment and Leo's public warmth reads to Scorpio as an invitation to jealousy, which Scorpio will not admit to and acts on anyway. Neither of you apologises. Neither of you forgets. And when this one ends it tends to end in scorched ground rather than a drifting apart, because both of you would rather burn it than concede it.
Fire and water: steam, in every sense. Beautiful, hard to hold, and somebody usually gets scalded.
Two fixed signs: immovable object, meet immovable object. When you agree it is granite. When you don't it is a siege.
Leo and Scorpio in the Ancient Zodiac
A sun sign is half of a reading. Which of the twelve Ancient Zodiac signs each of these two actually carries depends on the year they were born, and the pairing below is where the reading gets specific.
