Cancer Compatibility: Who Is Cancer Compatible With?

In Western astrology, Cancer is rated highest with Scorpio and Pisces (a strong match, 8 of 8 points) and lowest with Aries and Libra (a challenging match, 1 of 8). The list below ranks all eleven other signs; the same-sign pair is noted under it.

Cancer compatibility, in the zodiac sense, is settled one pair at a time, and Cancer is one of twelve signs. To check Cancer against any other sign, use the zodiac calculator. Every row of the list below opens a verdict page of its own. Cancer and Leo, for example, are next-door signs, a semisextile apart, and the full reading sits on Cancer and Leo compatibility. The rating reads two sun signs and nothing else.

How compatible is Cancer with each zodiac sign?

The table has five tiers and one rule behind them. The pair at the top shares Cancer's water element and sits a trine away, where our scoring gives the most it gives. The aspect counts for more than the element, and the element for more than the modality. The pair at the bottom sits a square away, the angle astrologers read as friction. In between are two sextiles, one opposition, and four signs a semisextile or a quincunx away, the tier the tradition reads as adjusting rather than arguing. What it means stays narrow: our scoring of three traditional readings, and not a forecast about anybody.

What is a Cancers best match?

The tradition's best match for Cancer is Scorpio and Pisces: a strong match at 8 of 8 points, same element, trine.

Our scoring puts Scorpio and Pisces level at the top for Cancer, and nothing in the tradition as we read it separates them.

• Scorpio is water, like Cancer, and sits four signs away, the aspect astrologers read as the least effortful (same element, trine).
• Pisces scores level with Scorpio and completes the water trine (same element, trine).
• Taurus sits two signs away, a sextile, which the tradition reads as friendly rather than effortless (paired elements, sextile).
• Virgo forms the second sextile and scores level with Taurus, because earth pairs with water in the convention our scoring follows (paired elements, sextile).

Who is Cancer not compatible with?

The lowest ratings for Cancer are Aries and Libra: a challenging match at 1 of 8, unpaired elements, square. A low rating is the tradition's reading of two sun signs, not a fact about two people.

Aries and Libra share the bottom of the list for Cancer, and one aspect explains both.

• Aries sits three signs from Cancer, a square of 90 degrees, which astrologers read as friction (same modality, unpaired elements).
• Libra squares Cancer from the opposite direction and scores level with Aries (same modality, unpaired elements).
• Leo, one sign along, sits higher on a semisextile. Our method notes give that minor aspect no reading of its own, so the page reports the distance and leaves the interpretation alone.

Low is not the same as bad. The rating describes the distance between two sun signs, not the people holding them, and the next two questions come back to the same ranking.

Who is the best match for a Cancer woman?

The ranking is the same for a Cancer woman, because our scoring takes two signs and has no input for gender at all. Scorpio and Pisces stay at the top. Read through the element. Water is the group astrologers tie to feeling and to noticing how a room is going, and the tradition's account of the water trine is two people who read each other without being told.

Who is the best match for a Cancer man?

Scorpio and Pisces again, for the same reason: the scoring reads two sun signs and knows nothing about the people holding them. Read through the ruler. The Moon rules Cancer and no other sign in the classical scheme, so astrologers read Cancer through emotional need rather than through a planet it shares with a neighbour. Rulers colour a reading and score no points.

How is Cancer in love, friendship and marriage?

All three readings run off the same eleven ratings. The element carries warmth, the aspect carries ease and the modality carries whatever lasts, which is why marriage and love seldom part company here.

What does Cancer need in love?

Cancer needs safety first. It is a water sign, cardinal by mode, ruled by the Moon, and astrologers read that combination as a sign that moves first but only once it feels secure. That is what sits behind the ranking above, not a claim about any Cancer: the tradition rates highest the signs it reads as steady enough to trust.

Which signs are the best friends for Cancer?

Scorpio, Pisces and Taurus are the signs the tradition reads as easy company for Cancer.

• Scorpio and Pisces form the water trine, and a trine is the aspect astrologers read as the least effortful between two signs.
• Taurus sits a sextile away, which the tradition reads as friendly: earth pairs with water in the convention our scoring follows, and neither sign pushes the other to explain itself.

Friendship is the reading where a sextile does best, because two signs need less in common to enjoy each other than to live together.

Who shall a Cancer marry?

Scorpio and Pisces are the two signs the tradition pairs with Cancer for the long run, with Taurus and Virgo behind them. Over years the modality matters more than the element: a shared mode reads as a contest, two modes as a division of work. Cancer is cardinal, so the tradition is easiest on a fixed or mutable partner, and no page here says who anyone marries.

Cancer runs June 21 to July 22 on the dates most calendars use. A birthday on either edge can belong to the sign next door, because the Sun's entry shifts by up to a day with the year and the time zone. Every sign has a best and a worst match, and the twelve line up differently once they are set side by side. The ranking across all twelve is in best and worst zodiac matches.