As Venus gingerly tip-toes through the dark waters of Scorpio, she squares your composite Chiron in Leo, triggering a few emotional trip-wires in your relationship. It's a bit like finding out that the flamboyant lion you've been living with is actually a scorpion in leopard-skin leotards.

No need to pack your bags, though. Chiron in Leo is all about healing through recognition, self-expression, and creativity. The square to Venus can amplify disharmonies in your relationship, like suddenly hearing Barry Manilow's "I Made It Through the Rain" on repeat at concert-volume levels. But those disharmonies are just the surface of your shared deep-sea adventure. They're the frou-frou scarves and frills hiding the real treasure, your growth potential.

Now, hold your seahorses! Venus in Scorpio isn't all doom, gloom, and Barry Manilow. Its intense passion can act like a cosmic MRI scanner, fearlessly identifying love-wounds while stimulating profound transformations. However, it also harbors a secret desire to endlessly psychoanalyze your every emotion, so don't be surprised if your Leo's mane bristles at the thought of another "Let's share our feelings" chat.

Your mission, which we presume you will accept, involves expressing your love authentically, however vulnerable or shatteringly cheesy it may feel. With Chiron in Leo, your relationship drama may as well have neon tickets reading 'Healing in Progress: Grab your popcorn'. The key to navigating it isn't about turning off the feelings-flood or chastising yourself for attracting another "sting operation". It involves compassionately navigating your shared emotions, shamelessly hogging center stage to celebrate your love, or even indulging in a laugh or two, when the intensity threatens to turn Goldilocks's porridge into stone soup.

In the near-nuclear levels of intensity, remember that it's okay to find humor. Because, let's face it: an astrology reading on the Internet advising you to run with arms wide open towards a scorpion, is definitely a situational comedy moment. Go ahead, laugh. You'll feel a lot better for it. And who knows? That might just be your unique way of healing and navigating what 'Venus squaring composite Chiron in Leo' means in the cosmic cookbook of life.

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