Gemini and Leo compatibility

Love and romance is the joint highest facet, level with emotions, at 72. The angle has the largest weight in it, and the sextile is this pair’s best input.

Ptolemy explains why the sextile was well regarded: “the trine and the sextile are each called harmonious, because they are constituted between signs of the same kind; being formed between either all feminine or all masculine signs.” Both of these signs are on his masculine side. Leo belongs to the triplicity “formed by three masculine signs”, and the triplicity of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius is made of “masculine signs” too.

Alan Leo treats each sign in its own chapter. Of Leo people: “Being the centre of the fiery triplicity they possess a very strong love nature, which makes them very ardent and sincere in their affections.” Of Gemini people: “They love change and diversity”. Ardour in one portrait and a love of change in the other; the pairing is ours.

Trust is the joint lowest facet, level with values, at 66. Steadiness counts in it, and here the two signs split: fixed Leo brings all of it, mutable Gemini none, and the average is half.

Alan Leo calls Leo people “generous to a fault, faithful, sincere and earnest”. Gemini people, he says, “are always the best persons to rely upon in an emergency, as they can instantly respond to the requirements of the moment”. Our reading of the two fragments together: one names faithfulness, the other quick response, and the passages we use do not weigh one against the other.

Communication scores 69, level with shared activities. The elements weigh most; adaptability, at half, neither adds nor takes much.

Alan Leo has a sentence on each sign that we set together here. Gemini people “are certainly quick-witted and mentally impulsive”. Of the other sign: “The Leos love to rule, but it is more from the heart and motive than from the head.” Mind in one sentence and heart in the other, a contrast drawn by us from two separate chapters.

Emotions is level with love at 72. The elements have their largest weight in this facet, and air with fire counts for three quarters of the full value.

William Lilly’s quality lines, which list qualities for judging a chart and do not describe people, show the shared one. Gemini is “aerial, hot, moyst, sanguine” and Leo “Fiery, Hot, Dry, Cholerick”. Hot is in both; moist stands against dry.

Alan Leo says Leo people “are philanthropic and always obey the impulses of the heart where sympathy is concerned”. Of Gemini people he says “they are very sensitive and have the ability to reason upon and analyse their sensations”. Obeying a feeling and analysing one are different habits; setting them side by side is our doing.

Values is level with trust at 66. Steadiness counts again, at half, and the elements weigh most.

Alan Leo writes of Leo people: “They are usually very practical with regard to their ideals, as they prefer to live them rather than talk of them.” Of Gemini people: “These persons are rarely content with a single occupation or pursuit, and seem to delight in having two things in hand at the same time.” Our reading is that the first sentence shows a person settled on an ideal and the second a person who keeps more than one aim going.

Shared activities comes to 69, the same as communication. Adaptability counts with a smaller weight here, and it stands at half.

Alan Leo happens to use one word of both signs. Leo people “can be impulsive and diffusive, but it is usually the impulse of a generous nature”. Gemini people, under a condition, are described this way: “when they live the unbalanced personal life, they become very diffusive, indecisive and unreliable”. Noticing “diffusive” in both chapters is our doing; in the Gemini chapter it applies only under the stated condition.