Five signs apart · 150° apart
Leo and Capricorn
The tradition is specific that this is not a weak square. A square describes two things in conflict, which at least implies they are on comparable terms. Five signs apart there are no comparable terms, so nothing can be traded off against anything. The classical picture is of continually adjusting for something that never resolves and never quite becomes a crisis.
What this page can and cannot tell you
Two Sun signs are two placements out of about eighty across two charts. They describe a general shape and nothing about the two people in particular, which is why sign compatibility is right often enough to feel useful and wrong often enough to be worth checking properly.
Compare both whole charts instead →Why these two land where they do
| Leo | Capricorn | |
|---|---|---|
| Element | fire | earth |
| Modality | fixed | cardinal |
| Polarity | active | receptive |
| Ruler | the Sun | Saturn |
No element, no modality and no polarity in common, and not even the adjacency of neighbouring signs.
What these two have in common
No element, no modality and no polarity in common, and not even the adjacency of neighbouring signs.
Leo and Capricorn as elements
Speed against solidity. Fire finds earth obstructive and earth finds fire exhausting, and the tradition reads the pairing as productive precisely because neither can ignore the other.
The tempo
One starts and the other sustains, which is the most practical division there is. The friction is that the starter keeps moving on and the sustainer would rather finish.
What works
Each finds the other genuinely strange, which some people want and most underestimate.
What costs something
Endless small accommodations, made without discussion, that neither notices until they add up.
The two signs themselves
Do it properly
Synastry compares both whole charts, measuring every one of one person's planets against every one of the other's. It is the technique this page is a summary of, it takes two birth dates, and it is free.