Cancer and Sagittarius compatibility

Love and romance comes to 35, below the two highest facets and above the other three. The angle weighs most here, and the rulers, level with adaptability as the pair’s strongest input, have a larger weight in this facet than in any other.

Ptolemy treats signs five apart as inconjunct, “because they divide the whole circle into unequal parts”, and he names the opposition, trine, quartile and sextile as the configurations they “do not at all share in”. Applying his rule to Cancer and Sagittarius is our step.

Alan Leo writes of Cancer people: “They are rather approbative, love to be approved of, and always yearn for the sympathy of others.” He sums up the Sagittarian as “loyal to whomsoever he becomes attached, and generally wise in his love expressions”. Reading the two sentences together, one wanting approval and one giving loyalty, is our choice.

Trust scores 32, level with emotions. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle in it, and one cardinal sign with one mutable sign brings only a quarter of what two fixed signs would.

Lilly’s quality lines, which are qualities for judging a chart rather than portraits of people, call Cancer “Moveable” and Sagittarius “Common, bycorporall or double bodied”.

Alan Leo on Cancer: “Being exceedingly sensitive, their feelings are very easily wounded.” On Sagittarius he writes that it may be said of those born in the sign that “their failings are those that can be easily forgiven”. The word “easily” turns up in both sentences; noticing it is ours, not his.

Communication is the joint highest facet, level with shared activities, at 38. Adaptability has its largest weight here, and this pair’s adaptability is high, while the elements, which weigh most, count for little.

Alan Leo grants Cancer people tact: “they possess a certain amount of tact, which assists them considerably”. Of Sagittarians he writes: “They will never willingly hurt, but when pushed to extremes are inclined to say much more than they mean.” Tact in one portrait and saying more than is meant under pressure in the other is a contrast we draw, not one he makes.

Emotions scores 32, level with trust. The elements weigh most in this facet, and water with fire gives them almost nothing.

Lilly calls Cancer “Watry, Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick” and Sagittarius “fiery, hot, dry”. Set side by side, which is our doing, the lines put cold against hot and moist against dry.

Alan Leo calls Cancer people “very reserved and sensitive, sympathetic and tenacious, persistent and impatient, impressionable and emotional”. His summary of the Sagittarian is “an introspective, impressionable, active and enterprising person”. The shared word “impressionable” is the overlap; setting the two lists side by side is our doing.

Values is the lowest facet, at 31. The elements weigh most in it and steadiness counts too, and the pair is low on both.

Alan Leo says Cancer people “fear ridicule or disapproval very much, and this makes them somewhat conventional, with a great dread and fear of public opinion”. His Sagittarius chapter reads: “Being lovers of liberty, they can recognise the law of order and harmony”. One portrait shaped by public opinion and one by liberty: the pairing is our reading.

Shared activities is joint highest with communication, at 38. Adaptability counts here as well, at a smaller weight.

Ptolemy places Cancer “on the summer circle” and Sagittarius “on the winter circle”; his summer and winter are those of the northern hemisphere.

Alan Leo says of Cancer people that “it is no difficulty for them to recall minute incidents of the past”. Sagittarians, in his words, “are always looking forward with a bright, hopeful, and happy disposition”, and they “make splendid characters when allowed perfect freedom”. One portrait looks back and the other forward; the comparison is ours.