Cancer and Cancer compatibility

Love and romance comes to 83, the second highest facet. The angle carries the largest weight here, and our formula gives a sign set against itself three quarters of a full angle.

That value is the formula’s decision. Ptolemy speaks of “the four prescribed configurations” and lists them as “the opposition, the trine, the quartile, and the sextile”; a sign beside itself is not among them.

Alan Leo writes of Cancer people: “They are rather approbative, love to be approved of, and always yearn for the sympathy of others.” He is describing one person. Two people who each want approval and sympathy from the other is our picture of the doubled sentence.

Trust is the lowest facet, at 73. Steadiness and the angle share the largest weight in it, and a cardinal sign brings steadiness only to half, on both sides alike.

Ptolemy calls Cancer a tropical sign, made of “the first thirty degrees after the summer solstice”, where the Sun, in his account, seems to turn and “to change his course towards a contrary latitude”. In the northern hemisphere, he says, that turn causes summer. Ptolemy is describing a season, not a person; the formula simply counts every cardinal sign at half.

Alan Leo strikes a different note: “Persons born in this sign are characterised as being slow but sure.” The formula measures steadiness by modality alone, so this sentence does not move the score; setting the two side by side is our comment.

Communication scores 78, fourth of the six. The element has the largest weight and counts in full; adaptability, a quarter of the facet, stands at half.

William Lilly lists Cancer as “mute and slow of Voyce”. His line gives qualities for judging a chart, not a description of people. Alan Leo describes people, and of them he writes on memory: “The Cancer individual has the most remarkable memory of any given by the twelve signs, and it is no difficulty for them to recall minute incidents of the past.” Two such memories in one conversation is our image, not his.

Emotions is the highest facet, 86. The element carries close to half of its weight, and one water sign shares its element entirely with another.

Lilly’s line calls the sign “Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick, Feminine, Nocturnal”. Two of Alan Leo’s sentences give the feeling side. “Being exceedingly sensitive, their feelings are very easily wounded.” And: “They are very reserved and sensitive, sympathetic and tenacious, persistent and impatient, impressionable and emotional.” Read twice over, which is our doing, that makes two people who are easily hurt and two who are sympathetic.

Values comes to 76, the second lowest. The element weighs most and counts in full, but a quarter of the facet is steadiness at half.

Alan Leo notes a habit of keeping: “they are very fond of saving letters, books, and all kinds of curios”. He also says they “fear ridicule or disapproval very much, and this makes them somewhat conventional, with a great dread and fear of public opinion”. Our reading of both sentences held by both people: a home with two collections in it, and two people wary of what others think.

Shared activities scores 79, the third highest. The element has the largest weight; adaptability makes up a fifth and sits at half.

Alan Leo ties the sign to the household: “Their highly sensitive nature makes them feel very keenly everything that affects the other members of the family, and for them domestic affairs become a kind of brake on their own individual progress.” Where both people feel that pull, our reading is that home is the likeliest shared ground; the sentence itself speaks of one person.