ohhh I love axis’s and opposites discussions!! for me, every axis is like a scale of two opposite colors of the same thing, two opposite shades of one quality. it represents the dual quality of everything and how life isn’t about something one, but rather about balance ✨
leo is about personal identity, about ego, about self, about here and now. aquarius is, on the contrary, about humanity as a whole, about non-humanity and about future. one is passionate and warm, the other is rather spaced out and detached. one is full of energy, the other one is pure rationality. however, if we zoom out a bit, we can notice that those two are the poles of the same magnet, gravitating to each other wishing for fulfillment of their deep core desire: desire for acceptance
I will repeat myself: both of those signs desire the same thing - to be recognized and accepted as they are.
leo desperately tries to build the identity for ppl so that the world will notice and recognize them, however, by gathering more and more ppl around they are pursuing only one thing: to find somebody that will accept them the way they are, without them putting on glittery and fun persona, without them trying their hardest to bring others warmth and excitement in their daily lives. leo is the artist in the spotlight, signing their soul out hoping that there’s at least one person that fully understands and accepts them
💭nb: I’ve remembered that one episode of Rick and Morty, where Rick turned himself into a child and on the surface was having the time of his life, hanging out with teenagers and singing songs that everybody around was just vining to. but the song he was signing contained lyrics “let me out, this is not a dance! I’m screaming for help, please, let me out!” bc his real body was actually dying each second he spent in the kid body. and around everybody else just vining to the song and saying how cool Rick is, there was only Morty, that actually listened and tried to save him. this episode, imo, is a great illustration for how leo would go about finding and acceptance and recognition
aquarius, on the other hand, is someone that is so accepting of others and so much universe-oriented that they can loose their sense of self. who they are as a single person, as a human soul? aquarians are walking around there looking for bits of their identity and trying to rationally built it bit by bit. they have a really hard time bc they can loose themselves to a point where nothing seems real anymore (“does anything exist? do even I exist, or am I someone else’s hallucination, or a side effect of some cosmic glitch?”). aquas desire for acceptance and understanding is more about: “please, take my hand and tell me I’m real, I’m a human being and I exist”. they look for someone that would prove and validate their own existence.
and here we have two opposites of one axis: one is so human to a point they give themselves out completely to others, and the other one is so detached they don’t believe they’re real anymore. however, if we put these two together, each of them will get one they desire most: leo will finally feel heard, accepted and validated no matter how weird and unacceptable they may have felt, and aqua will finally feel like a real human being, covered in warmth and authenticity of leo’s aura.
and I think it’s beautiful💫
