Scorpio Sun Leo Moon: A Square

Scorpio Sun: what you are trying to become

The Sun is the aim. Not what you are like, which is a different question, but what you are consciously oriented toward and what you would be proud of being. With the Sun in Scorpio that is to understand what is really going on, including the parts nobody says.

What Scorpio quietly takes pride in is honesty about hard things. At its best this placement becomes somebody who can be told anything. Scorpio is Water and Fixed, ruled by Pluto and Mars, and the recognised weak spot is that it tests people before trusting them.

Leo Moon: what you need

The Moon is the private half, and it is usually the placement people recognise most sharply once it is described. It covers what you need in order to feel alright and what you do before you have thought about it. With the Moon in Leo you need to be noticed and taken seriously, especially when low.

What settles you: warmth, attention, being told plainly that you matter. And the giveaway, the thing people close to you would recognise: goes dramatic or goes silent, and both mean the same thing. Leo is Fire and Fixed, ruled by the Sun.

What happens when you put the two together

Scorpio and Leo are three signs apart, which is a square, 90 degrees. The friction one. What you are trying to become and what you need in order to feel safe actively pull against each other, so progress tends to cost comfort and comfort tends to cost progress.

Water and Fire are different elements, which is the part that actually produces the mismatch people notice: you are aiming with one kind of energy and recovering with another.

The practical version

Because the two disagree, you will recognise this: the thing you are working toward keeps costing you the thing you need. To understand what is really going on, including the parts nobody says does not sit comfortably with needing to be noticed and taken seriously, especially when low, and most people with this combination have arranged their life around the tension without ever naming it.

The useful move is not to pick a side. It is to notice which one you default to when you are tired, because that is almost always the Moon, and to notice what you have been postponing, because that is almost always the Sun.

The phase you were born under

There is a second thing these two placements tell you, and almost nobody mentions it. The distance from the Sun to the Moon, counted forwards, is the lunar phase you were born under. Leo is 9 signs ahead of Scorpio, which puts you in the last quarter moon band.

That is a band rather than a verdict: the exact phase needs the degrees, not just the signs, so somebody at the edge of a sign could land either side of it. What a last quarter moon birth is read as is here, along with the arithmetic to check your own properly.

What this page is missing

Your rising sign, which is what people meet first and which needs a birth time. On any given day, twelve different people share this Sun and Moon and have twelve different rising signs, and they do not come across remotely alike.

If you do not know your birth time, this covers how to find it, including which record to ask your state for. And the Big Three together are covered here.

Where to read next

The Sun in Scorpio in full and the Moon in Leo in full. Sun square Moon covers the aspect itself, for anybody whose Sun and Moon are close enough in degree for it to count properly.