Cancer and Scorpio Compatibility

Cancer and Scorpio is one verdict of 78. To run any other two signs, open the astrology compatibility calculator. The verdict above compares two sun signs and nothing else, so it reads the same for any two people born under them.

Sun signs are the first layer of a match. If you both know your birth times, you can compare two birth charts to see where the Moon, Venus and Mars line up as well. This page stays with the two sun signs.

How do Cancer and Scorpio rate in love, friendship, marriage, intimacy and communication?

Cancer and Scorpio carry one rating, the verdict above, and the tradition reads each part of a relationship from the same chart facts. For these two the facts agree with each other: water with water, a cardinal sign with a fixed one, and a trine between them. The table sets out the five readings and the chart fact each one rests on.

None of the five is a number. Each is how the tradition reads one part of life for these two signs, and what it means for you two is yours to judge.

What are the strengths of a Cancer and Scorpio match?

The strengths of a Cancer and Scorpio match, in the tradition's reading, are these three:

• The same emotional language: both signs lead with feeling and empathy (water and water).
• The easiest aspect on the wheel: astrologers read a trine as natural support (trine).
• Care that lasts: Cancer begins the looking after and Scorpio never stops (cardinal and fixed).

What are the challenges of a Cancer and Scorpio match?

The challenges of a Cancer and Scorpio match, in the tradition's reading, are these three:

• Moods that feed each other: two sensitive signs with nobody standing outside the feeling (water and water).
• Long memories: a fixed sign holds on to a hurt, and Cancer retreats into its shell (cardinal and fixed).
• A small world: a pair this comfortable has little reason to look outward (trine).

Both lists come from how astrology compares two signs, beginning with the elements.

What elements are Cancer and Scorpio?

Cancer and Scorpio are both water signs. Two signs of one element is the pairing the tradition reads as the easiest, and our scoring gives it the most element points it can.

Astrologers associate water signs with emotion, empathy and sensitivity. Cancer shows that as care for the people close to it, and Scorpio as depth and a strong sense of loyalty. Neither has to translate its feelings for the other, and the tradition's warm reading of this pair starts there. Pisces is the third water sign.

This verdict follows the element and modality pairing of Cancer and Scorpio. The rules behind every verdict are explained in elements and modalities. Element describes temperament; modality describes how each sign acts on it.

What modalities are Cancer and Scorpio?

Cancer is a cardinal sign and Scorpio is a fixed sign. The two modalities differ, which our scoring counts in the pair's favour, because the tradition reads two signs of one modality as more of a contest. Cardinal signs start things, fixed signs sustain them and mutable signs adapt.

Shared water is pointed in two directions by the modalities. Cancer acts on a feeling: it calls, cooks, or turns up at the door. Scorpio holds a feeling steady for years. The tradition reads the first as what gets this pair together and the second as what keeps it so.

Cancer brings its element and modality to this pair. For how Cancer handles love with every other sign, see who is Cancer compatible with. Scorpio brings its element and modality to this pair. For how Scorpio handles love with every other sign, see who is Scorpio compatible with. Element and modality belong to each sign; the aspect is the angle between them.

What aspect do Cancer and Scorpio form?

Cancer and Scorpio sit four signs apart on the zodiac wheel, which Western astrology calls a trine (120 degrees). The trine is one of the five major aspects. Signs four apart always share an element, so every trine on the wheel is a same-element pair.

Astrologers read the trine as the easiest of the aspects, and Astrostyle describes it as an unspoken kinship between two signs of one element. For Cancer and Scorpio that kinship is emotional. The love gurus would add that a trine doesn't do the washing up, so ease on the wheel still leaves ordinary life to the two people.

The aspect places the signs on the wheel; the ruling planets say what each sign wants.

Which planets rule Cancer and Scorpio?

Cancer is ruled by the Moon and Scorpio by Pluto, with Mars as its traditional ruler. Pluto was discovered in 1930, which is why Scorpio carries a modern ruler and a classical one. Astrologers associate the Moon with emotional needs, Pluto with transformation, and Mars with desire and drive, so the rulers describe tenderness on one side and intensity on the other.

Cancer and Scorpio are not opposite signs, so the tradition's pull of opposites is not part of this reading. Rulers add colour to the reading and no points to our rating.

Are a Cancer woman and a Scorpio man compatible?

The rating is the same as the verdict above, because our scoring takes two signs and nothing else. A Cancer woman and a Scorpio man are still two water signs in a trine. Read through Cancer, the tradition puts the Moon first: Cancer looks for a partner with whom it is safe to be soft. Scorpio, a fixed sign, is read as protective of the few people it lets in.

Are a Cancer man and a Scorpio woman compatible?

The same rating applies: our scoring reads two signs, never who is the woman and who is the man. Read through Scorpio, the tradition puts Pluto and Mars first: Scorpio wants emotional honesty and a partner who doesn't flinch at strong feeling. Cancer, which the tradition reads as the zodiac's carer, meets intensity with warmth instead of distance. The reading holds for any two people of these signs, whatever their gender.

Scorpio and Cancer compatibility: is it the same reading?

Yes. Scorpio and Cancer is the same reading as Cancer and Scorpio: the order of the names does not change the rating, and the page is listed under Cancer because Cancer comes first on the zodiac wheel. Searches for Scorpio and Cancer compatibility, or Scorpio and Cancer love compatibility, land on this one page.

How compatible are Cancer and Scorpio in friendship, marriage and bed?

Cancer and Scorpio in friendship, marriage and bed are read from the same chart facts as the verdict, one part of life at a time.

Are Cancer and Scorpio good friends?

Cancer and Scorpio are read as devoted friends, because two water signs confide easily in each other. Both are described as private with most people and open with a few. As friends, the tradition reads Cancer and Scorpio through the same chart facts. The page on which signs are best friends sets out where this pair sits among all twelve signs.

Are Cancer and Scorpio a good match for marriage?

Cancer and Scorpio are read as well suited to marriage, with the trine as the reason: astrologers treat it as ease that lasts. The cardinal sign builds the home and the fixed sign guards it, and the tradition's one caution is letting old hurts pile up unspoken. For marriage the tradition weighs patience and shared pace more than spark. The page on marriage compatibility by zodiac sign shows how every sign does long term.

Are Cancer and Scorpio sexually compatible?

Cancer and Scorpio are read as sexually compatible, a reading that rests on the shared water element and on Scorpio's rulers. Astrologers describe closeness between two water signs as emotional first, with desire, the province of Mars, following trust. Intimacy on this site is written for adults. The page on intimacy by sign gives the sign-by-sign version. With every part of life read, the useful question is what the two people can do with it.

What should a Cancer and Scorpio couple do to make it work?

A Cancer and Scorpio couple makes it work, in the tradition's terms, by giving all that feeling somewhere to go:

• Say a hurt out loud on the day it happens, because both signs store feelings (water and water).
• Let Cancer raise the subject and let Scorpio take time to answer (cardinal and fixed).
• Keep friends and interests outside the two of you (trine).
• Make room for quiet comfort and for intensity, since the rulers ask for both (the Moon and Pluto).

None of this is a forecast. Any decision about a real relationship is yours to make, together.

Do the sun signs tell the whole story for Cancer and Scorpio?

No. A sun sign is one placement out of many that astrologers read. A full birth chart adds the Moon, Venus and Mars of each person, which the tradition reads for emotional needs, love style and desire. Two people with the Cancer and Scorpio sun signs can differ in all three. The whole system is a tradition: there is no evidence that birth dates predict how two people get on.