Taurus and Cancer compatibility

Love and romance is the highest facet, at 79, one point above three others. The angle has the largest weight in it, and the angle is this pair’s best input.

Ptolemy names the sextile with the trine as the configurations “called harmonious”, and says why: they are “formed between either all feminine or all masculine signs”.

The rulers add to this facet. Cancer is the Moon’s house, and of the Moon Ptolemy writes that she “makes her first appearance, and begins to augment her light in Taurus”. He calls the sign her exaltation.

Cancer people, Alan Leo says, “love to be approved of, and always yearn for the sympathy of others”. Taureans “are more inclined to live in their feelings than in their minds”, a remark he makes while contrasting them with Aries. The comparison is ours.

Trust scores 78, level with emotions and values. Steadiness weighs as much as the angle here: the fixed sign counts in full, the cardinal sign for half, and the pair’s average is three quarters.

William Lilly’s quality lines mark the difference, Taurus “Fixed” and Cancer “Moveable, a Solstice Signe”. He is listing qualities for judging a chart, not describing people.

Two of Alan Leo’s sentences speak, on our reading, of holding on. Taureans “make faithful friends to all whom they give allegiance”, and Cancer people “are persistent and exceedingly tenacious”. Pairing the two sentences is our step.

Communication is the lowest facet, 66. A quarter of it depends on adaptability, and a fixed sign with a cardinal sign has little by the formula’s measure. The elements have the largest weight in it and count for three quarters.

Lilly’s line for Cancer includes the phrase “mute and slow of Voyce”, a quality of the sign in chart judgment and not a remark about people. Alan Leo, who does write about people, describes reticence in both chapters. Cancer people are “very timid, reserved, and shy, and fear ridicule or disapproval very much”. Of Taureans he says “it is quite natural for them to be reserved, conservative and secretive”. Both portraits use the word “reserved”; noticing it is our doing.

Emotions comes to 78. The elements carry the largest weight here and count for three quarters.

Lilly shows the shared quality and the unshared one. Taurus is “Cold, Dry, Melancholy” and Cancer “Cold, Moyst, Flegmatick”: cold in both, dry in one and moist in the other.

Alan Leo’s Cancer is the more easily hurt of his two portraits, in our reading. “Being exceedingly sensitive, their feelings are very easily wounded”, he writes, and he calls Cancer people “impressionable and emotional”. His Taurus feels strongly too, in another register: “The true Taurean may be said to be one great, feeling individual, but as the sign belongs to the earthy triplicity, it is more often physical and objective than subjective feeling.”

Values stands at 78, the same as trust, from the same inputs in other proportions.

Two of Alan Leo’s sentences, paired by us, share the word “slow”. “The Taureans are slow, plodding, patient, enduring, persistent, executive and matter-of-fact persons.” And of Cancer: “Persons born in this sign are characterised as being slow but sure.” He also finds Cancer people “somewhat conventional”, a result, he says, of their fear of disapproval, and Taureans “conservative”. The likeness is our observation.

Shared activities scores 68, the second lowest. Adaptability is a fifth of this facet, and the pair has little of it.

Alan Leo places the Cancer character at home: “Their highly sensitive nature makes them feel very keenly everything that affects the other members of the family”. Of Taureans he says “as co-workers they are reliable, sincere and trustworthy”. Neither sentence mentions the other sign; placing them together is our doing.