Leo and Scorpio: closeness, control and who gives way

Leo and Scorpio stand 90° apart on the zodiac wheel, and astrology calls that distance the Square. The angle never changes: it is the same for every pair of these two signs, whatever else the two charts hold.

Fire and Water are the classically awkward elements: what one of them treats as obvious, the other has to be talked into.

Both signs belong to the same cross: Fixed. They meet a change on the same beat, and neither of them is the one who gives way first.

The pair has two rulers, Sun and Pluto, and each side reads the relationship through its own.

First, nobody retreats. An argument about the washing-up and an argument about moving city run at the same intensity, because the subject is never the washing-up: it is who agrees first.

Second, the ledger. Scorpio remembers every slight with a date on it, Leo remembers none of them and is honestly astonished by the list.

What works is a one-evening rule. A row does not carry over to the next day: either it is settled before sleep or the subject is dropped and stays dropped. Alongside it, a ban on threatening to leave, since in this pair the threat is said in temper and carried out from stubbornness.