Cancer and Leo compatibility
The keeper of the home, and the keeper of the hearth fire.
Cancer: June 21 – July 22. Leo: July 23 – August 22.
Are Cancer and Leo a good match?
It is rarely the easy match, and often the educating one. It holds when each of you stops treating the other as a correction.
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 sit side by side, Moon and Sun in the old tradition. Cancer gives Leo a private place to be loved, and Leo gives Cancer someone warm and proud to care for. There is genuine generosity on both sides.
The hard part
Leo wants the world to see this love, and Cancer wants it kept safe from the world. Leo's pride and Cancer's sensitivity can both be bruised by the same offhand remark.
How your signs sit on the wheel
You sit side by side on the wheel, with no element and no way of moving in common. Older astrology calls this a thirty-degree relationship and says little good about it. In practice, each neighbor holds what the other has just left behind or has not yet reached.
Fire and water make steam. One of you acts on a feeling while the other is still inside it, and each can feel the other is either too much or not enough.
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.
Leo is asking: Do you see me, truly, when the room is empty? Leo brings warmth and fears being ordinary in the eyes of the one who matters.
The desire under the question
Leo wants to be cherished in public. Cancer wants to be chosen in private. Both are ways of asking not to be taken for granted.
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.