Cancer and Libra compatibility

Love and romance is the lowest facet, at 39. The angle has more weight here than any other input, and the square brings it down.

Ptolemy gives his reason for calling the square discordant: it joins “signs not of the same kind, but of different natures and sexes”. He names Libra together with Aries as “masculine and diurnal”. Cancer stands in his fourth triplicity, and “the signs which compose this triplicity are feminine”. Applying it to this pair is our step.

Alan Leo writes that Librans “seem to be ever striving to manifest that which must be attained by all humanity — compassion.” Cancer people, in his chapter, “always yearn for the sympathy of others”. Compassion striven for in one portrait and sympathy wanted in the other: that pairing is ours.

Trust ties with values as the joint highest facet, at 42. Steadiness and the angle carry equal weight in it, and two cardinal signs leave steadiness at half.

William Lilly’s quality line for Cancer reads “Moveable, a Solstice Signe”, and his Libra line has “Masculine, Moveable, Equinoctiall, Cardinall”. In his usage “Moveable” means cardinal. These are qualities for judging a chart, not portraits of people.

For Alan Leo, “Persons born in this sign are characterised as being slow but sure.” That is Cancer. Of Libra he writes: “They are sensitive so far as the personality is concerned, when not fully self-conscious, but they are always just and generous.” Reading the two sentences as two kinds of reliability is our interpretation.

Communication scores 41. The elements have the largest weight in this facet and count in part, while adaptability at half adds a middling share.

Alan Leo credits Librans with a mind for weighing: “Those born in this sign are remarkable for their powers of comparison”. His Cancer chapter credits a long memory: “The Cancer individual has the most remarkable memory of any given by the twelve signs”. One sentence weighs, the other remembers; the contrast is drawn by us.

Emotions comes to 40. No facet gives the elements more weight than this one, and water with air counts only in part.

Lilly lists Cancer as “Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick” and Libra as “aeriall, hot and moyst, Sanguine”. Each line says moist; one says cold and the other hot.

Alan Leo’s Cancer people “are very reserved and sensitive, sympathetic and tenacious, persistent and impatient, impressionable and emotional.” Of Libra he writes that “It is the aim of the individuality working through this sign to seek equilibrium, and this causes them to love harmony so much, that they feel exceedingly sensitive until the whole of their organism is in a state of balance.” The word sensitive appears in both chapters; setting them together is our doing.

Values stands level with trust at 42. Steadiness enters again with a slightly smaller weight, and the elements weigh most.

Alan Leo ties the Cancer character to home: “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.” His Librans “seem to accept fate in a way that others are not capable of, and realise the justice of all things.” Family ties in one chapter, a sense of justice in the other: the juxtaposition is ours.

Shared activities comes to 41, level with communication. Adaptability counts here too, with a smaller weight than in communication.

Ptolemy ties each sign to a point in the Sun’s year. The Sun’s turn in Cancer brings summer, in the northern hemisphere, and Libra is “the first after the autumnal equinox”, when the Sun “makes the day and night equal”. Calling both signs openers of a season is our summary.

Alan Leo says Librans “have always a kind and amiable disposition”. Of Cancer people he says that “they possess a certain amount of tact, which assists them considerably”. Amiability beside tact is a match we make, not Alan Leo.