Cancer and Taurus in love
Affectionate, loyal and domestic — both enjoy building a comfortable home.
· Sextile · 60° apart
Cancer and Taurus Compatibility
Cancer and Taurus compatibility rests on a sextile: the signs sit 60° apart, water with earth. We score it 82%.
- Angle
- 60° Sextile
- Elements
- Water + Earth Cardinal + Fixed
- Two random people
- 1.47% are Cancer and Taurus
- US births
- 8.84 · 8.29% Cancer · Taurus
US births 2000–2014; a random pair is two independent births.
Sextile
82%
Are Cancer and Taurus compatible?
Taurus and Cancer form a sextile between earth and water. Both value home, security and loyalty. Taurus offers stability and comfort, Cancer offers warmth and care. It is a cozy, dependable pairing.
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As friends and colleagues
Reliable and caring, good for hospitality, property and family business.
Where it goes wrong
Resistance to change and overindulgence in comfort.
Over time
How a Cancer–Taurus relationship usually unfolds
- At first. Comfort at first sight: good food, quiet evenings and a shared wish for security make the courtship easy.
- Once settled. They build a home, a routine and often savings together; the household is steady and generous.
- What keeps it working. Adding novelty on purpose — a trip, a new hobby — so comfort does not slide into inertia.
Ruling planets
How each ruler fares in the other’s sign
Cancer’s ruler, the Moon, is exalted in Taurus, the sign where tradition says it works best after its own; Venus has no standing in Cancer. On the classical scale that makes +4 for the pair.
On the wheel
Where Cancer and Taurus sit on the zodiac wheel
- The 60° line runs from Cancer to Taurus.
- Element. Water Cancer with earth Taurus: a pairing of elements tradition calls complementary.
- Modality. Cardinal Cancer starts things; fixed Taurus holds on.
- Polarity. Cancer and Taurus are both yin signs.
Computed, not asserted
How common the Cancer–Taurus pairing actually is
Cancer is the more common of the two in US births, 8.84% against 8.29% for Taurus. As a pairing it comes 13th of 78, at 1.47% of random pairs.
Among the 12 sextile pairings, which together cover 16.7% of random pairs, Cancer–Taurus ranks 4th. At London’s latitude Cancer takes 150 minutes to rise and Taurus 68, which makes Cancer rising about 2.2 times as common there as Taurus rising. Rising times for every sign →
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