Rooster/Capricorn and Goat/Leo meet at 75-80%, a cross pairing with no shared animal or sign, yet an oddly workable trade: the unflappable climber who works for everything meets the sun-warmed aesthete who believes the best of everything should simply arrive.
Rooster/Capricorn loves with strength of character, steady and unglamorous, clawing its way up several heaps at once so the household never wants. Goat/Leo loves the finer things and the person who provides them, repaying practicality with warmth, taste, and genuine kindness. Provider meets appreciator, and both roles are played honestly.
In bed, the provider meets the appreciator, and Goat/Leo makes an art of being pleased. Rooster/Capricorn is steady and unglamorous rather than theatrical, but it works honestly at everything, and the sun-warmed Goat repays that effort with warmth, taste, and real generosity of touch. The risk is the ledger creeping under the sheets: if the Rooster feels it is funding the pleasure alone, desire cools into duty.
Rooster/Capricorn speaks plainly and prefers to be known as unflappable; Goat/Leo speaks in appetites and enthusiasms about the moment at hand. Talks work best when the Rooster does the planning aloud and the Goat supplies the color and the applause.
Friction lives in the ledger. Rooster/Capricorn will never be the life of the party and resents funding one, while Goat/Leo can refuse to move at all if not properly funded. Money and effort, who earns and who enjoys, is the recurring argument.
Goat/Leo teaches Rooster/Capricorn that a life of pure climbing needs some pleasure in it, and Rooster/Capricorn teaches Goat/Leo the forethought of living for the moment after this one. Each softens the other's most stubborn habit.
At 75-80%, Rooster/Capricorn and Goat/Leo have good chemistry, a worker and an enjoyer who suit each other well as long as the ledger stays a shared joke rather than a scoreboard.