Four signs apart · 120° apart
Aries and Leo
The easiest angle in the tradition and the one most often described as effortless. Two signs of the same element want the same kind of thing and go about it at different speeds, which is enough difference to stay interesting and not enough to cause a fight.
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
| Aries | Leo | |
|---|---|---|
| Element | fire | fire |
| Modality | cardinal | fixed |
| Polarity | active | active |
| Ruler | Mars | the Sun |
The same element, always, and different modalities.
What these two have in common
The same element, always, and different modalities.
Aries and Leo as elements
Two people who act first and discuss it later. Warm, direct and rarely bored, with nobody in the arrangement inclined to apply a brake.
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
Instinctive agreement about what matters, with none of the sameness of two identical signs.
What costs something
Nothing here demands anything. The traditional caution about a trine is complacency: what costs no effort is often never developed.
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.