Cancer and Leo compatibility

Love and romance scores 28, third of the six. The angle weighs most in this facet, and our data names a distance of one sign a semi-sextile and gives it a low value.

Signs one apart, Ptolemy says, are inconjunct “because they are averted, as it were, from each other”. He also places the two in triplicities of different kinds: Leo in the one “formed by three masculine signs”, Cancer in one whose signs “are feminine”. Applying those general remarks to this pair is our step.

Alan Leo writes of Leo people: “Being the centre of the fiery triplicity they possess a very strong love nature, which makes them very ardent and sincere in their affections.” Cancer people, in his chapter on that sign, “always yearn for the sympathy of others”. Ardour on one page and a wish for sympathy on the other: putting them together is our doing.

Trust is the highest facet, 42. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here, and at three quarters it is the strongest input this pair has.

In Lilly’s quality lines, which describe signs for judging a chart rather than people, Cancer is “Moveable, a Solstice Signe”. Alan Leo says Cancer people “are persistent and exceedingly tenacious”. Of Leo people he says they are “generous to a fault, faithful, sincere and earnest”. Our reading of the two portraits is that both describe people who hold on, one by tenacity and one by faithfulness; Alan Leo makes no such link.

Communication is the lowest facet, at 23. The element has the largest weight in it and a low value; adaptability, at a quarter, adds little.

Lilly’s Cancer line includes “mute and slow of Voyce”. Alan Leo’s Cancer people “are very timid, reserved, and shy”. His Leo people “are forceful and highly magnetic”. A shy voice beside a forceful one is the contrast we draw from his two chapters; he does not draw it.

Emotions comes to 25, the third lowest. The element carries close to half the weight here, and water with fire, sharing neither quality, keeps the element value low.

Lilly calls Cancer “Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick” and Leo “Fiery, Hot, Dry, Cholerick”. Set side by side, which is our arrangement, each term in one line meets its opposite in the other.

Alan Leo’s sentences point the same way only on our reading. Of Cancer: “Being exceedingly sensitive, their feelings are very easily wounded.” Of Leo: “They are philanthropic and always obey the impulses of the heart where sympathy is concerned.” One portrait is of feeling that is easily hurt, the other of a heart that acts.

Values is the second highest facet, 38. Steadiness counts for a quarter of it and helps; the element, which weighs most, does not.

Alan Leo writes that for Cancer people “domestic affairs become a kind of brake on their own individual progress”. Of Leo people he says that “although somewhat ambitious and persevering it is nearly always turned in the direction of self-perfection”. Home on one side and self-perfection on the other is the pairing we make of these lines.

Shared activities scores 24, the second lowest. Adaptability makes up a fifth of this facet and stands at a quarter, and the element is weak again.

Alan Leo calls Cancer people “slow but sure”. Leo people “can be impulsive and diffusive, but it is usually the impulse of a generous nature”. A slow pace and an impulsive one, placed together by us, describe two different tempos.