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Bill and Hillary Clinton in happier times

I have to say I find these two signs fascinating, and judging by how often this combination seems to hook up,  I guess they find each other fascinating too.

So above, we have Bill and Hillary Clinton when they were first together back in the 70’s and attending Yale. Notice Bill’s typically Leonic mane of hair and beard. In her memoirs, Hillary recalls how she had a crush on Bill as soon as she saw him in the hall one day. He was standing in the centre of a large group (the only place for a Leo), regaling them with stories of his life back in Arkansas. Bill noticed Hillary. He persued her. She played it cool, and won him.

Now here’s another account of a male Leo with a female Scorpio- the infamous first meeting of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. In her journal for 1956, Sylvia wrote:

and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hair band off, my lovely red hairband scarf which had weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never again find, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face.

Even though Sylvia’s take on the exchange is a bit exaggerated, it nevertheless shows the passion and intensity these two signs feel for each other. And like Hillary, Sylvia’s crush on Ted was sudden and not exactly subtle.

Oddly enough, there doesn’t seem to be too many Leo female- Scorpio male combinations, and I wonder why this is. Leo women tend to go for men who are as outgoing and extroverted as they are, and may find the Scorpio man’s moody ways and extreme sensitivity a little hard to handle. And unless they have a fair amount of Libra or Sagittarius in their chart, the Scorpio man usually prefers a woman whose feminine charms are a little less obvious than the Leo woman’s.

So what then, attracts Leo men and Scorpio women to each other again and again? Well, they do say opposites attract, and the Leo man with his popularity and his open affections that are out there for everyone to see, is intriguing to the Scorpio woman who may not be as socially adept as Mr Leo. For their part, the Leo man is awe-struck by Ms Scorpio’s cool demeanour and mysterious ways.

And yet, it is their similarities rather than their differences which usually spell disaster for this pair. Despite their laid-back appearance, Leos are just as ambitious as Scorpios, and when these two work in the same field (poets in the case of Ted and Sylvia or politics for Bill and Hillary), a certain amount of competitiveness enters the relationship, which can eventually destroy it if either of them let power struggles and games of one-upmanship dominate them. 

As well as this, both Scorpios and Leos are Fixed signs which can mean fixed opinions and an unwillingness to see another’s point of view. Both of these signs love a bit of drama in their love lives, and may on occasion deliberately start an argument with the other person to spice things up a bit.

Both signs have a strong sense of pride, and neither will concede defeat when they are fighting about something that is dear to them or they feel they are right about. They also have explosive tempers and all of these things together usually indicate a rocky relationship with plenty of ups and downs.

Are you a Leo who has dated or married a Scorpio? Or vice versa? I would be interested to hear other people’s take on this.