Leos are hot!
... and also emotionally unavailable. :-)

I am a leo girl (venus in leo & mars in gemini) that is falling for a taurus male (venus in gemini & mars in pisces). After dating an unpredictable and undependable sag for over a year, when I met Troy (the taurus) it was like the stability and even-keel I was looking for was totally there! We have a lot in common, are both somewhat stubborn but fiercely loyal. We do communicate differently, and I'm always afraid that I'm saying too much, or being too forward, as I don't want to turn him off. So far we definitely hit it off and have been "hanging out" for about 7 or 8 weeks now. I'm crazy about him but don't know how to open the door to the possibility of more LOL you know, the possibility of dating or dating exclusively.....he has said that he is emotionally unavailable, although I know he feels on a very deep level. Comments?? Suggestions?? Help! He is one of the most incredible guys I've ever met!

True. My friend and my sister have both been okay with me that way.

Yeah ---

"I let him run his course and get small windows of communication.. "

Well put!

I looked up my chart and my spouses...
I don't know all that much about astrology but even I gasped and laughed
(in a dark OMG kind way) .. may explain a lot..
The relationship is very rough.

My planets: Lot’s of retrograde…

Planetary positions
planet sign degree house motion
Sun Taurus 05°19'14 12 direct
Moon Libra 21°32'46 05 direct
Mercury Taurus 08°24'03 12 retrograde
Venus Gemini 20°03'28 01 direct
Mars Aries 20°50'55 11 direct
Jupiter Taurus 03°10'31 12 direct
Saturn Pisces 03°00'57 10 direct
Uranus Virgo 06°03'30 04 retrograde
Neptune Scorpio 16°46'48 06 retrograde
Pluto Virgo 11°46'37 04 retrograde
True Node Cancer 03°46'25 02 retrograde


His planets.. Lot’s of Leo :-o
Planetary positions
planet sign degree house motion
Sun Leo 09°47'12 09 direct
Moon Capricorn 29°07'21 03 direct
Mercury Leo 06°36'33 09 direct
Venus Leo 01°42'51 09 direct
Mars Leo 14°22'19 09 direct
Jupiter Leo 10°46'46 09 direct
Saturn Scorpio 14°40'25 01 direct
Uranus Cancer 28°43'51 09 direct
Neptune Libra 25°38'46 12 direct
Pluto Leo 25°55'00 10 direct
True Node Sagittarius 25°45'18 02 retrograde

i find that i always fall for leos, so now i check first before i date any boy... i seem to be drawn to them, but taurus and leos, ultimately, do not go well together... too much fire for us... and there is definitely something wrong with communication between leos and taurus...
according to all the books, we get along, romantically, with cancer (and maybe capricorn?), and sometimes other taurus folks (although i find those relationships, at least with the opposite sex, to be quite boring)...

no way .
nosey always checkin up on ya . even after the relationship
will not take its over for any answer just plain yuk. no way and they like me alot.
gross

*Sorry for the length of this post. I had a family filled with taureans and I was the only leo, so forgive me ahead of time, I know its unusually long. It's a leo thing, feel free to chuckle. ;p

It is hard for these two signs to relate, that's definitely true. (The only other sign I've seen have troubles with Taurus to match our own is Aquarius, but that combo never looks as frightening as it does with leos.) Being surrounded buy you guys most of my life has been a challenge, but taught me a lot. I guess I was lucky to have a life filled with taureans, especially since I have almost no earth signs in my chart (almost exclusively air and fire, with water somewhere, and at least one planet in Capricorn for some earth). I have to remind myself that objectively, most taureans and leos come together because there's more in-common than not. The confusion comes when both parties are forced to face the truth that having like qualities or interests doesn't always guarantee sympathy or shared perspectives. Both taurus and leo tend to assume that the opposite is true, and both signs get bent all out of shape when others cross their personal "boundaries" they've decided to keep.

My fellow leos: If you can find a way to tell yourself that being trampled isn't all that bad, and find a way to bounce back, then you can hack it, and the taurus of the pair will usually switch modes at some point from trampling you to crying about what they did to you. Leos will find themselves doing the same, wondering why they jumped at their taurus friend's throat pre-emptively over something that wasn't worth the viciousness. Taureans: don't be hurt if leo says "I don't care, I'm over it" by the time you get around to apologizing for something. The same advice applies to both groups: just don't jump the gun. Let things play out and don't freak out, ever. That's the hardest part, since both signs think freaking out is useful when intimate feelings are at stake. Save your aggression for the opponents you have to face as a team, since you both probably have a lot of enemies anyway and you're gonna need back-up! ;p

Both taurus and leo feel sympathy for each other naturally, but they don't show it so that the other side sees it easily. Taureans feel abandoned when leos don't wear their feelings on their sleeves, and leos get freaked if taurus sympathizes before leo thinks the taurean knows the whole story (because leos get irked if they don't think you're being genuine). Vicious cycles are easy to get into. Maybe its true that leos like to be right, but more often leos just want the chance to throw in their two-cents and have it be taken seriously, (because they wouldn't bother if they didn't take the subject seriously to begin with) even if they turn out to be wrong in the end. Neither sign takes being dismissed well, not at all. It's like the Chinese notion of "saving face" I guess, and it has to be something both parties agree on above all else, otherwise everything grinds to a halt. Both have to fight their own fears around each other. If leo can stop correcting the taurean's perception of them and just listen, and taurus can remember that leos pounce on things just to see what they are most of the time (not to "kill" everything the way it sometimes appears) then they'll probably be able to communicate. United we stand, divided we fall -- that's way more true for us than other combinations. Resilience is one of the hardest kinds of traits to develop for anyone, of any sign, but its the key to this pair imho. Ironically, resilience to the perceptions of others doesn't appear to be something either sign is born with tons of, and both have to spend years, decades sometimes, cultivating it. Learn to bounce back, if you can. It's probably the best chance you have of becoming more mature, hanging out with the signs that give the most challenge. Good luck. ;p

Well, there was a time when I would have ascribed much more positive attributes to leos, but the last really good leo friend I had cut me off without a thought. All that loyalty and love he'd expounded upon disappeared in between one heartbeat and the next and it was all a lie now, as far as I'm concerned.

Make them run after you and keep running.... If you really can't stand it any more, take them and then start running again.

M-P

Leo/Cancer cusp person here... Taurus moon.. Ouch Ouch and Ouch...

I thought everyone loved Leos? You're kidding.! Ha Ha. I think the similarities between Leo and Taurus are what causes the friction and the affection. I am currently being wooed by a Taurus male, we definitely have some ego struggles. Everything you don't like about a Leo, Taurus, look in the mirror. And I would consider myself a more considerate Leo due to my cancer aspects. Both want to dominate and control, both are always right, and have no shame in aggressively driving their points while stubbornly failing to even hear the point the other is making, in those instances no one is listening, but that's not all Leo's fault. And Taurus craves more attention and adoration than they want to admit, leos are just more used to making that visible enough. And when Taurus has to save face and stay tough all the time, at least in public, a lot of their true needs go malnourished with the Leo.

Tell the Leo what you want, and if we want you, we deliver. Generously.

I grew up with a epitome of a domineering Taurus dad, we never had any warmth in our relationship, and I swore I wouldn't date a Taurus. Usually, when I found out the unlucky bloke was a Taurus I would run. Fast.

But I'm finding a lot of things about the Taurus that I appreciate, he's awesome, so down to earth, and charming, he holds his own and he is tough, (Leos need that) and the sex is just... primal, but oooh is he stubborn! He told me "everything goes from one ear to the other with you". This is while he's trying to drive a point of his, that I've already disagreed with 30 times already, but he just wouldn't give up trying to drill it into my skull his way. This is impossible, when I've made up my own mind. For him, that is unheard of and absurd that I don't see it his way. He just doesn't get it. He doesn't believe that you can agree to disagree.

The affinity towards him may have something to do with the Cancer cusp and the merc and mars in cancer, but I can still feel the Taurus Leo aspects at play. We're literally off and on from week to week. It's a little fun, and a little nervewrecking.