These interpretations are based on solar energies only when one of the partners has a Sun in Cancer, a Water sign, and they give an idea of the probable compatibilities with the other solar signs of the zodiac.
They have been written with a “love” perspective but their purpose can also be applied in the field of friendship, or relational in general.
For more precision, it is advisable to nuance them by a more thorough study, a true comparison of topics that we call a Synastry or at least a Study of rapprochement. It will obviously also be necessary to take into account its ruler planet, the Moon, as it is a little more complicated than just throwing the astro dice… 🙂
For other signs see Compatibility of Astrological Signs.
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Cancer Love Compatibility
CANCER-Aries : water/fire (Mars)
Aries are very independent, individualistic too, they have a visceral need for freedom. And cancer are very fusional, very protective, very “tribal”, very emotional and empathetic, compassionate, they may suffocating him quickly. Aries will want to act impulsively “right now”, while the cancer will be more focused on inner feelings and analysis…
But the two can also feed each other in symbiosis, Aries will like the importance given to them by Cancer, it will flatter their ego and imprint a form of dominance in the couple and in the family, they will also be able to find a form of stability that they will appreciate if the rest of their birth chart fits in. And Cancer will have found a magnificent support of Projection for various violent repressed feelings, which they will be able to live vicariously; they will also be able to discover and learn a form of independence and strength that they did not know.
Will the sentimental, emotional, sensitive, and mutual belonging needs of cancer be satisfied ? The indifferent Aries will probably lead him a hard life on these sides, cancer is likely to feel helpless and abandoned (one of their greatest fears). But if other elements of the configuration are favorable (Moon, Venus, Neptune, Houses, Ascendant…) why not ?
CANCER-Taurus : water/earth (Venus)
You two have a lot in common ! You share the Moon’s Rulerships, home for cancer, exaltation for taurus. It sharpens your sensitivity, your mutual needs for gentleness, protection, warmth, affection… You both share a love for sense pleasures (good food, good wine, sensuality), for calm, simplicity.
You are both home-like in nature, you like to be lulled by the daily routine, your home is really your refuge, one of the pillars of your existence. Your family is important to you, you devote yourself to it, you protect it, beak and nails, it is really one of your foundations, you find it difficult to conceive a logic of life that would be too individualistic and solitary, especially without children.
You might form a very fusional couple, perhaps even too much so. Cancer will often be the most sensitive part of the couple, taurus will be the rock bringing their pragmatism, but the 2 roles will be potentially interchangeable depending on the periods. It’s a solid couple, marked by the moon…
CANCER-Gemini : water/air (Mercury)
You might as well say it right away, you are two signs that don’t have much in common, you are even antagonistic on several points. Cancer are very emotional and sensitive, very turned on their emotions and very receptive to those around it, they are nostalgic, poetic, intuitive. Gemini are very turned on their mind, their intelligence, they are theorist who tends to perceive the world in a binary way between what is “logical and rational” and what is not.
Also that constitutes 2 very different means of perceiving the world and of communication.
Your lifestyles are also significantly different. Gemini are followers of permanent change, of versatility, they thrive on movement, they love the excitement of novelty, they are affable and easily make connections. Cancer are very homely, they like to be able to enjoy their home and family quietly in a daily routine, any change that disrupts this balance will be perceived as an “aggression” and will require overprotection.
What can bring you closer is the closeness with children, which you will probably both enjoy, but again in different ways : cancer will mother them, while gemini will train them, you will each have your own way of expressing your concern.
Also the need for communication may be another common point, but here again cancer may find gemini insensitive, indifferent, too cerebral and too objective. Gemini will reproach them for being too subjective and too emotionally involved in all things that they will often find even irrational.
All this does not mean that you will not be able to enjoy yourself, because you can have a real complementarity in your relationship. But it will surely take the mediation of other astral influences to make it last…
Here is a hypersensitive, sweet, sentimental, romantic couple, very turned on their inner feelings and emotions. You are both extremely changeable and moody, which can disconcert many signs, but in theory you will understand each other well and accept this capricious and cyclothymic aspect in the other one.
You will appreciate the affective fidelity of the partner, this mutual belonging, this shared depth of feelings, this visceral attachment. You will feel the empathy and the listening capacity that emerges from your partner.
You can form a really very fusional couple, symbiotic even, always united, very protective of each other, you create your own bubble, a little out of the world, out of “people”, warm in your cozy nest in safety. You love to enjoy your home, your loved ones, you are both very homely and attached to your routine.
You have a marked tendency to nostalgia for the past, you like to remember childhood memories, your parents, you remain very attached to the places where you lived, your region, your country.
You are both very sensitive and resentful, so each of you will probably take care never to offend your alter ego, not to be too aggressive, each of you being conciliatory and accommodating by nature anyway…
On the whole you are on the same page, however, more than for other signs, there is also an intuitive and epidermal part which is very important for you. You will consciously or unconsciously feel “vibrations” emanating from the potential partner that you will like… or not ! and you will not necessarily have rational explanations to give, but the result will be 100% adherence or rejection from the very beginning.
In short, you can certainly be in osmosis with each other, but there is a risk of missing a dynamic and a constancy in the relationship…
You are both very different, you each represent the 2 luminaries, sun and moon, with all the antagonisms that this implies. Leo are outgoing, extroverted, where cancer will be on the contrary more introverted, dreamy and contemplative. Cancer are very subjective, turned on their own person, leo are sociable, friendly, open, active players in the social theater.
You both share a great susceptibility, you don’t take criticism well and you take everything to heart easily. For leo it is because of their pride and self-esteem, for cancer it is more about their great sensitivity and fragility, their permeability to the eyes of others and their lack of self-confidence.
The opposites that you represent can attract each other, leo can bring security, solidity and stability of feelings, and a strong sense of belonging to cancer. For their part, cancer will know how to pamper them, flatter them and give them importance, they will know how to make themselves essential.
Leo will however have difficulty expressing their feelings directly, while cancer will be in a much more spontaneous effusion on that side… there may be some “failures” of communication, cancer expressing anxiety, sadness, doubts, even weaknesses, while leo will be much more belligerent and vindictive…
Leo will take control of the couple and will dominate, but cancer, far from being displeased, will be very comfortable in this more submissive position which will bring a form of comfort and less stress…
CANCER-Virgo : water/earth (Mercury)
Despite some appearances, you two have a lot in common ! Virgo is a sign of devotion to others, of service, cancer is compassionate, empathetic, you have a very strong sense of “helping” that you can bring around you and of a certain “social” character of all existence.
You like to take care of your loved ones, your family, and to retreat into your home which is really a bubble where you have built security and tranquility.
You each have a very restless nature, cancer because of their sensitivity and intuitive receptivity, and virgo more because of an overheated mind due to excessive planning and mania of all kinds. However, it is likely that this point will bring you much closer together by producing in each of you a need for “enhanced security” which the other will be able to bring you on a platter.
You both also have mood swings that are not always easy to live with, cancer being nostalgic, melancholic, dreamy, which virgo will have a hard time following. Virgo are more in the “nervous breakdown”, their too great grip with the realities of everyday life can lead to an accumulation of nervous tension that they often have a hard time evacuating, they will then blame cancer for their passivity and their “artist” side while they’re totally focused on their work, their feet on the ground. This is when things can go wrong because cancer are very sensitive and resentful, the virgo’s criticisms, their sarcastic spikes and irony can make deep wounds that will have difficulty healing…
In the end you are both of a natural pacifist and conciliatory nature who should adapt well, you will find a form of complementarity where both partners can draw strength from each other…
CANCER-Libra : water/air (Venus)
Your signs are Cardinal and in quadrature, which denotes tension but complementarity. Tensions are mainly due to differences in temperament, libra have a balanced and rational logic, and know how to show objectivity and sociability in everyday life, cancer on the contrary are very personal and subjective, turned on feelings and emotions, often introverted, and sometimes even irrational (dreamy, imaginative).
On the other hand, you share a certain volatility, pacifism, sweetness, sensitivity, empathy, a taste for arts, poetic and romantic beauty…
In fact, your communication will be adapted to your differences in temperament but in a very complementary way, cancer will be conciliatory, listening, ready to console, libra will be diplomatic, seeking harmony and tranquility above all. On the other hand, it will tend to intellectualize much more than cancer, and to ask for more words and intellectual exchanges, where cancer will be in the pure exchange of feelings.
Libra also have a much less stressed and anxious nature than cancer, they will tend to take certain things a little “over the top”, whereas cancer will react strongly either by taking things very much to heart, personally, or by being “petrified”, withdrawn into themselves.
Cancer have a need to belong, they feel a need to be safe, protected by the relationship, and also to protect themself and their partner in return, or even to mother it excessively. Libra are in danger of suffocating in this relationship, since they need a “friend”, an accomplice partner with whom to be “out on the town” on an equal basis, an “alter ego”, they will misunderstand this kind of “domination” relationship that Cancer seeks to install.
This is the paradox of your relationship : on the surface, there may be an appearance of calm and harmony, you never raise your voice, or each will be on their tracks, but deep down there will be profound differences and difficulties in understanding, sometimes leading to an underlying “gap”…
CANCER-Scorpio : water (Pluto)
You are very different, but you have a fundamentally identical nature, you are “cut from the same cloth”.
You are both very attached to feelings, you share in some way “antennas” that connect you to the unconscious, you have a deep analysis of your psychology, as much as those of others, you feel a powerful need to connect with your loved ones, to protect them, especially your family, with whom you tend to have fusional relationships, a sense of belonging, and even with regard to scorpio, a strong sense of possession.
Scorpio are more complex and secretive than cancers. They have a magnetism, a passionate and compulsive nature, often even very hot, including sexually (this is the most paradoxical of the water signs), their temperament is fundamentally “instinctive”, sometimes -often- not without a certain harshness.
These are the biggest points of divergence with cancer, which are peaceful, empathetic, compassionate, very sensitive and receptive to their environment, much less instinctive and sexual, more sentimental, not at all “harsh”.
Basically, you have a different way of “absorbing” the vibrations around you. Cancer are nostalgic, melancholic, sentimental, like a sponge in relation to feelings, they accumulate again and again, and have trouble rejecting. While scorpios will accumulate but will periodically consume the totality of emotions collected in its crucible, they will go down if necessary very deep to purge them of their dross, but will come back up and be reborn with the quintessence of what they have kept, something that cancer don’t know how to do…
For scorpio, cancer can appear too weak, it can address to them acerbic and acid remarks (of which only they have the secret) which can deeply and in an indelible way wound the resentful cancer, which will then fold up in their shell. And since scorpio are no less vindictive, the cold war can set in quickly and last a long time…
It’s a paradoxical union between the two of you; you share the same intensity, the same depth of feeling, the same need for durability of emotions, and it deeply strengthens your bond and intimacy, but you have really very different ways of experiencing and expressing it…
CANCER-Sagittarius : water/fire (Jupiter)
Your two natures are very antagonistic. Sagittarians are optimistic, friendly, sociable, travelers and explorers at all levels, in search of philosophy, full of reflections and metaphysical questions. While cancer are often self-centered, very introverted, shy, they like the sweetness of their home and enjoy a homely nature.
Cancer base their life on their past, their roots, their origins, their family, they try to protect all these people, they look after them and they yearn for security in everything, both physically and psychologically, sometimes even being a little “clingy”.
Sagittarians have a rather “risk-taking” nature at times, independent, freedom-loving, they tend to run away from all those who seek to mother them too much, they quickly perceives them as “suffocating”.
However a part of sagittarius can also be very conformist and materialistic, this facet can greatly please cancer because it reflects more security.
On the other hand, all the great ideals, the great principles, which viscerally animate sagittarius are often far too abstract for cancer. Sagittarians see “big”, they handle general, universal, transcendental concepts, cancer are purely focused on their own feelings, they have a sense of compassion and empathy but at the local level of their loved ones and entourage.
Sagittarians are very much marked by fire, they have a liveliness that may well disconcert cancer. On their side cancer are very marked by water, nostalgia, melancholy, their extreme sensitivity will be misunderstood by sagittarius who will judge it too “sad”.
It can emerge a certain complementarity of your characters at times and on certain aspects, but on the whole your temperaments are diametrically opposed…
CANCER-Capricorn : water/earth (Saturn)
You are 2 complementary opposites on the zodiac wheel. Your 2 ruler planets (moon and saturn) are in detriment with the partner, meaning that their energies are weakened there (see Rulerships).
Cancer have sensitivity, a need for protection, they tend to get emotionally involved in all the projects of their life, they have an extreme sentimentality, they also have a home-like nature, they often retreat into their fundamental values, their family, their home, their past which are powerful reference points for them.
Capricorn are cold and dry, calm, thoughtful, pragmatic, patient, ambitious, they can also be homebody. They have no problem to separate themselves from their feelings, to wonderfully control their emotions, they have a great restraint (at least in appearance). They have a sense of the collective that is as much more developed as in cancer, they may be less compassionate, but potentially more “mystical” or even religious in their relationship with society.
You both share a love of traditions, a form of prudence and reserve, capricorn exudes a maturity, stability, responsibility and fidelity that will greatly reassure cancer, the latter by their conciliatory temperament and their gentleness, by their deep attachment, will also reassure capricorn.
Your 2 signs are therefore more compatible than it would seem at first glance. But as both of you are naturally introverted, you will have to take a little more time to explore your partner and discover your common points. Time will generally be very beneficial to your union, once the relationship is well started, it is to last, it will age well, like good wines…
CANCER-Aquarius : water/air (Uranus)
This is a very disparate alliance. Aquarians are extroverted, very volatile, exuberant, original, followers of a total independence and fierce freedom, amateurs also of permanent change and surprises, they are very eclectic in their choices, in their tastes, in their life… Cancer are introverted, homebody, they like routine, they hate change in their environment which they equate to a threat or a loss of security, which for them is one of the most serious things. They need to be reassured by solid “foundations” at all times, they have a huge fear of being abandoned, they function with sensations, emotions and feelings all the time.
Everything in aquarius is focused on the future, innovation, creation, reform, sociability and the objective federation of the world.
Everything in cancer is focused on the past, traditions, family, nostalgia, melancholy, conservatism, and their subjective inner states.
Aquarians have an open, transcendental vision, cancer have a focused, local vision.
Cancer need stability, softness, durability, security (material and emotional), aquarius go with the winds, with the flow, and adapt themselves according to the fixed objectives they have given themselves.
Aquarians can be without problem in a form of lightness and superficiality, whereas cancer have a great need for depth…
I could still play this little game of differences for a long time because there are really many differences and your degree of compatibility is quite low…
To keep the relationship going, aquarius need a much more developed emotional sense than normal (for example some personal planets in Pisces) and/or a lot of air in cancer to give it a lively mind more capable of changes (some personal planets in Gemini or a Libra ascendant for example).
CANCER-Pisces : water (Neptune)
You are very similar both of you, in a great aquatic dominance, you really share a softness, a pacifism, a sensitivity, an affection…
You understand each other wonderfully, without even needing to speak. You “feel” each other, and you respect each other’s desires and wishes, you have in a way antennas that connect you to the unconscious. Cancer are more focused on the purely personal unconscious, pisces are more focused on the collective unconscious, the universal. Pisces are in sacrifice, self-sacrifice, cancer will like to find in their partner this compassionate and empathetic side. The two of you have a very similar way of functioning, largely based on feelings and emotions.
You are both dreamers and imaginative, creative, intuitive, with a depth of soul, an artistic sense as well, very fond of poetry, music, painting, everything that touches you deep down…
Your great receptivity often leads you to be too easily influenced by your environment, you have an important consideration for others, you “absorb” vibrations, this is your way of working. Both of you hate conflicts and run away from confrontations, you prefer conciliations.
Cancer have a great need for security, they withdraw into their family and their home, pamper and protect them, they have a very sharpened sense and need to belong, which will not be the case of pisces who have a more equitable and charitable vision, more global, they will tend to consider others as their “neighbors”, in a humanistic, tolerant, equitable among all and more “free” vision.
On a daily basis, your moods are as changeable as each other, you can easily be moody, but this is your way of life, and you tolerate this point well in your partner.
The biggest risk in the relationship is that cancer don’t find safety with pisces and that this produces a permanent worry in them… or that pisces find that cancer lack absolute and mystical meaning, too centered on themselves.
But these are all very small differences, and it seems that for the rest, you will get along well and you will have things to learn from each other.
For the other signs see Compatibility of Astrological Signs.