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Sign compatibility

Leo and Taurus

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

  • Taurus
  • Leo
Elements
Earth and fire
Modalities
Both fixed
Angle between the signs
Square (90°), counted by sign

How common is each Sun sign

  • Sun in Taurus8.33%of 2,000,000 simulated births, within noise of an even split of 12
  • Sun in Leo8.78%of 2,000,000 simulated births, the most common 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 Taurus

    In Taurus, the Sun expresses itself in a steady, unhurried way.

  • Sun in Leo

    In Leo, the Sun expresses itself in a warm, open 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 Taurus?

  1. What is compared

    Two Sun signs

    This page sets the Sun in Taurus against the Sun in Leo: 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°)

    Earth (cold and dry) and fire (hot and dry) share the quality dry. Both are fixed. Taurus and Leo 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 Taurus: 8.33% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; within noise of an even split of 12. Sun in Leo: 8.78% of simulated births, about 1 in 11; the most common of 12.

How do Leo and Taurus relate?

Leo

Fixed fire

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

Taurus

Fixed earth

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

Earth (cold and dry) and fire (hot and dry) share the quality dry. Both are fixed. Taurus and Leo 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 Taurus and in Leo?

Sun in Taurus, last pass
ended 21 May 2026
20 April 2026, 01:39 UTC to 21 May 2026, 00:36 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Taurus, next pass
from 20 Apr 2027
20 April 2027, 07:17 UTC to 21 May 2027, 06:18 UTC (about 31 days)
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)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Taurus

    20 Apr 2026 → 21 May 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  2. Sun in Leo

    22 Jul 2026 → 23 Aug 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  3. Sun in Taurus

    20 Apr 2027 → 21 May 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  4. Sun in Leo

    23 Jul 2027 → 23 Aug 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  • Each year the Sun is in Taurus from about 19–21 April to 20–22 May (UTC dates, 1900–2050).
  • Each year the Sun is in Leo from about 22–24 July to 22–24 August (UTC dates, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 13:56 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 Taurus?

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

Taurus and Leo are three signs apart, a square, which Hellenistic astrologers treat as a hard configuration. Taurus is a feminine earth sign and Leo a masculine fire sign, and both are fixed, a quality the tradition calls solid. Venus rules Taurus and the Sun rules Leo, so no ruler is shared. The Sun has no dignity in Taurus, though the Moon is exalted there, and Venus has none in Leo. Venus never strays more than about 47° from the Sun in a chart, so the two lords are never more than two signs apart. Hard names the geometry, a structural friction, not a verdict. A square is a one-chart idea, so using it on two people's signs is an extension.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 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. Venus within ~47 deg of the Sun (about two signs; Ptolemy I.17) confirmed.

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

Taurus and Leo sit three signs apart, a square, and both are fixed signs. Taurus is earth and Leo is fire. In comparisons of charts by sign, modern psychological astrology reads a square as a tension between unlike elements, and a shared fixed modality as shared persistence. It associates Taurus with comfort and constancy, and Leo with display and recognition. In the traditional scheme Venus rules Taurus and the Sun rules Leo, so each sign has a different lord. Hellenistic astrologers also place the Moon's exaltation in Taurus. They read the square as a configuration of tension between signs. They treat it as a matter of technique, not as a verdict on how two people get along.

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: Taurus is 3 signs from Leo (square), both fixed, earth with fire; Venus rules Taurus, the Sun rules Leo, the Moon is exalted in Taurus. Added those facts 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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