Cancer and Aquarius compatibility
The one who remembers everything, and the one who is looking at the future.
Cancer: June 21 – July 22. Aquarius: January 20 – February 18.
Are Cancer and Aquarius a good match?
Tradition calls it an awkward match rather than a bad one. What it runs on is fascination, and it lasts when curiosity outlives the confusion.
I will not hand you a percentage. A number like that is invented, and a Sun sign is one line of a long letter. Two people of any signs can love each other well.
What draws you together
You puzzle each other, and that puzzlement can be its own kind of love. Aquarius gives Cancer a wider sky, and Cancer gives Aquarius the shocking experience of being cared for without conditions.
The hard part
Cancer needs emotional closeness, and Aquarius needs space. Cancer's hurt feelings can seem to Aquarius like a demand, and Aquarius's cool logic can feel to Cancer like being left.
How your signs sit on the wheel
You sit five signs apart, a one-hundred-fifty-degree angle astrologers call a quincunx. You share no element and no way of moving, and you cannot see each other straight across the wheel either. Each of you keeps adjusting to a person you do not quite have the language for.
Air and water meet as thought and feeling. One of you wants to talk it through and the other wants it felt first, and that gap is where most of your arguments live.
One of you starts things and the other keeps them. That is a working partnership, as long as neither mistakes it for a contest of wills.
What each of you is really asking
Cancer is asking: Is it safe to come out of the shell? Cancer brings shelter and fears being left after showing the soft part.
Aquarius is asking: Can I belong to you and still belong to myself? Aquarius brings honest strangeness and fears being absorbed.
The desire under the question
Cancer is asking if you love me. Aquarius is asking if I can be free here. You keep answering a question the other did not ask.
Finish this line, privately
I want ___ ; I accept ___ ; I will not surrender ___ .
Fill it in about this person. Whatever you write first is usually the truth.
Two signs are only the first line.
Bring both birth dates and I'll set your signs side by side, free. If you want to stay a little longer, the Lovers' Ledger opens both charts, the pull between you, and the conversation you keep not having. One reading, $14.