Leo and Capricorn Compatibility

How these two meet

The email says the thing has been won and Leo reads it out at the table. Capricorn says congratulations, means it entirely, and then asks what the terms are, and the temperature in the room drops four degrees in the time it takes to ask.

Neither of you can explain what just happened. Leo cannot say that the question arrived before the moment did. Capricorn cannot say that checking the terms is how Capricorn celebrates, and has been since the age of nine.

The Sun never turns back and never goes retrograde, one of only two bodies on the wheel that does not. Saturn spends 36.4 per cent of its time apparently going backwards and takes 29.43 years to cross the twelve signs. One of you arrives fully in the moment because there is no other mode available. The other has already priced the year.

And the two who are not at the table: Leo’s opposite is Aquarius, who would have given Leo a principle worth being the centre of and never once made it personal, and Capricorn is what comes just before Aquarius, with the structure and none of the impersonality. Capricorn’s opposite is Cancer, who would have kept what Capricorn built without being asked and without it being an occasion, and Leo is what comes just after Cancer, and makes it an occasion.

For Leo, the work is hearing the terms question as the congratulations. It is the same sentence.

For Capricorn, the work is leaving thirty seconds between the congratulations and the terms. Thirty seconds.