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Leo and Scorpio

How the Sun in Leo and the Sun in Scorpio relate by element, modality and position, and what two traditions say about the pairing. It does not predict how two people get on.

  • Leo
  • Scorpio
Elements
Fire and water
Modalities
Both fixed
Angle between the signs
Square (90°), counted by sign

How common is each Sun sign

  • Sun in Leo8.78%of 2,000,000 simulated births, the most common of 12
  • Sun in Scorpio8.33%of 2,000,000 simulated births, within noise of an even split of 12

There is no simulated figure for the pair itself. These are the shares of each Sun sign on its own.

In plain words

  • Sun in Leo

    In Leo, the Sun expresses itself in a warm, open way.

  • Sun in Scorpio

    In Scorpio, the Sun expresses itself in an intense, probing way.

Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.

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What is being compared in Leo and Scorpio?

  1. What is compared

    Two Sun signs

    This page sets the Sun in Leo against the Sun in Scorpio: each has an element, a modality and a ruler. No tradition on this site claims to predict how two people get on.

  2. How the signs relate

    Square (90°)

    Fire (hot and dry) and water (cold and moist) share no classical quality. Both are fixed. Leo and Scorpio are 3 signs apart, a square (90°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers hold that signs in square see each other.

  3. How common it is

    No pair figure

    There is no simulated figure for the pair itself. These are the shares of each Sun sign on its own. Sun in Leo: 8.78% of simulated births, about 1 in 11; the most common of 12. Sun in Scorpio: 8.33% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; within noise of an even split of 12.

How do Leo and Scorpio relate?

Leo

Fixed fire

Leo is a positive (yang) sign: fire and air signs are positive, earth and water signs negative.

Scorpio

Fixed water

Scorpio is a negative (yin) sign: fire and air signs are positive, earth and water signs negative.

Fire (hot and dry) and water (cold and moist) share no classical quality. Both are fixed. Leo and Scorpio are 3 signs apart, a square (90°) counted by sign. Hellenistic astrologers hold that signs in square see each other.

How common is each of the two Sun signs?

How common is each Sun sign?

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Sun in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

When is the Sun in Leo and in Scorpio?

Sun in Leo, last pass
ended 23 Aug 2026
22 July 2026, 19:13 UTC to 23 August 2026, 02:18 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Leo, next pass
from 23 Jul 2027
23 July 2027, 01:04 UTC to 23 August 2027, 08:14 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Scorpio, last pass
ended 22 Nov 2025
23 October 2025, 03:50 UTC to 22 November 2025, 01:35 UTC (about 30 days)
Sun in Scorpio, next pass
from 23 Oct 2026
23 October 2026, 09:37 UTC to 22 November 2026, 07:23 UTC (about 30 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Scorpio

    23 Oct 2025 → 22 Nov 2025 · about 30 days

    last pass

  2. Sun in Leo

    22 Jul 2026 → 23 Aug 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  3. Sun in Scorpio

    23 Oct 2026 → 22 Nov 2026 · about 30 days

    next pass

  4. Sun in Leo

    23 Jul 2027 → 23 Aug 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  • Each year the Sun is in Leo from about 22–24 July to 22–24 August (UTC dates, 1900–2050).
  • Each year the Sun is in Scorpio from about 22–24 October to 21–23 November (UTC dates, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 13:26 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

What do different traditions say about Leo and Scorpio?

AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.

Hellenistic

The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Leo and Scorpio are three signs apart, a square, which Hellenistic astrologers treat as a hard configuration. Leo is a masculine, fixed fire sign and Scorpio a feminine, fixed water sign, so both are fixed, a quality the tradition calls solid. The Sun rules Leo and Mars rules Scorpio, so no ruler is shared, and neither has dignity in the other's sign. Under sect, the tradition's sorting of planets into day and night teams, the Sun is on the day team and Mars on the night team. That adds a second split to the square. Scorpio is also the sign of the Moon's fall. Hard describes the geometry, not a forecast. Using a square between two people's signs is an extension of a one-chart idea.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I
  • Vettius Valens, Anthology, Book I
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Aspects/aversion by sign (Ptolemy I.13, I.16), dignities, genders and modalities confirmed; the block already says it applies a one-chart doctrine to two people's signs as an extension, which is this page's choice and not an ancient claim.

Sources consulted

Modern psychological

The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Leo and Scorpio are three signs apart, a square, and both are fixed signs. Leo is fire and Scorpio is water. Modern psychological astrology reads a square as a tension between unlike elements, and two fixed signs as shared persistence. It associates Leo with open display and Scorpio with guarded depth. Leo is positive in polarity and Scorpio negative, which modern authors call expressive against receptive. Hellenistic astrologers read the square as a configuration of tension by sign. They assess planets through their rank by sign, so Mars, which governs Scorpio traditionally, matters more than the sign pair. Modern astrology adds Pluto as the sign's ruler. Sign comparison describes themes only; the planets, degrees and houses supply the detail.

Sources

  • Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)
  • Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Verified: Scorpio is 3 signs from Leo (square), both fixed, fire with water; Mars rules Scorpio traditionally, Pluto in modern astrology. Added polarity and a closing sentence to reach 110 words. Interpretive keywords are consistent with the sign keywords in the project reference data but were not checked against the books' own text; no claim is made about how a pair will fare.

Sources consulted

Where they differ

Hellenistic astrology reasons from technique: essential dignity, sect and configuration by sign. Modern psychological astrology reasons from element, modality and the planet's function. They start from different questions, so the same placement can read differently, and neither reading is the verdict. Both use the tropical zodiac here.

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