Cancer and Pisces compatibility

Love and romance reaches 93. The angle weighs most in this facet, and the trine gives it in full.

Ptolemy calls the trine and the sextile harmonious “because they are constituted between signs of the same kind”. Cancer and Pisces share his fourth triplicity with Scorpio, and he notes that “the signs which compose this triplicity are feminine”.

Alan Leo writes of Pisces people: “They are very changeable and imaginative, or probably, what is more correct, fanciful; and love to live in a world of romance.” Cancer people, he says, “always yearn for the sympathy of others”. Romance on one page and a yearning for sympathy on the other, joined here by us.

Trust is the lowest facet, at 73. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle in it, and a cardinal sign with a mutable sign brings steadiness to a quarter.

William Lilly gives Cancer the quality “Moveable”, a term for judging a chart rather than a description of people. Ptolemy names Cancer as a tropical sign and describes the bicorporeal signs as “intermediately placed between the fixed and the tropical signs”. Pisces follows the fixed sign Aquarius, so by his order it is bicorporeal; that application is ours.

Alan Leo’s Pisces chapter carries a condition: “A considerable amount of the personal Pisces character appears to arise from a lack of decision”. Of Cancer he writes: “Persons born in this sign are characterised as being slow but sure.” Indecision beside sureness is how we read the two sentences together.

Communication scores 91, level with shared activities. The elements weigh most here and count in full, and adaptability, a quarter of the facet, stands at three quarters.

Alan Leo writes of Pisces: “When becoming individualised and more self-controlled, they are very patient, gentle and submissive persons, possessing a quiet understanding”. Of Cancer people he says “they possess a certain amount of tact, which assists them considerably”. Quiet understanding next to tact is our pairing, not his.

Emotions is the highest facet, at 94. Nearly half of it is the elements, which two water signs fill completely, and the rulers add three quarters of their share.

Lilly’s two lines use the same terms. Cancer is “Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick, Feminine, Nocturnal”; Pisces is “of the Watry Triplicity, Northern, cold Signe, moyst, Flegmatick, feminine, nocturnal”. Noticing the repetition is our doing.

Alan Leo’s portraits share a word. Pisces people: “They are emotional and secretive, patient and meditative, kind and generous, imitative, receptive, and peaceful when living up to the best of their nature.” Cancer people: “They are very reserved and sensitive, sympathetic and tenacious, persistent and impatient, impressionable and emotional.” Both say “emotional”; one says patient and the other impatient. The observation is ours.

Values comes to 76, the second lowest. Steadiness has a quarter of the weight in this facet, and the pair holds a quarter of its full value.

Alan Leo says Pisces people are “very hospitable, and seek to do all in their power to make those dependent on them comfortable and happy”. Cancer people, he writes, “feel very keenly everything that affects the other members of the family”. On our reading both sentences look toward the people close at hand.

Shared activities scores 91, level with communication. Adaptability is a fifth of it, and the pair has three quarters of the full value.

Alan Leo writes that Pisces people “love roaming about”. Cancer people, he writes, are “very fond of saving letters, books, and all kinds of curios”. A wanderer and a keeper, set side by side by us. Of Pisces he also says “They are ever apt to be more timid than bold”.