Cancer and Sagittarius compatibility
The one who has made a home, and the one who is at home anywhere.
Cancer: June 21 – July 22. Sagittarius: November 22 – December 21.
Are Cancer and Sagittarius 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
It is an unlikely pairing and a sweet one when it works. Sagittarius brings optimism to Cancer's worry, and Cancer gives Sagittarius a place it surprises itself by missing.
The hard part
Sagittarius is blunt and Cancer is tender. Cancer wants to know when you will be back, and Sagittarius hears a leash. The same small question can feel like love to one of you and a fence to the other.
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.
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 sets the course and the other finds the way around what is in it. This works when the one who adapts is also asked what they want.
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.
Sagittarius is asking: Can I love you and keep the horizon? Sagittarius brings faith and fears being fenced in.
The desire under the question
Cancer wants to be enough to come home to. Sagittarius wants to be loved without being held. Both of those can be true, and it takes saying them.
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.
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