Taurus and Cancer compatibility
Earth and water, and a house with the lights on.
Taurus: April 20 – May 20. Cancer: June 21 – July 22.
Are Taurus and Cancer a good match?
Tradition calls it a good match, with one warning: it is so pleasant that the real conversation can wait for years.
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
This is one of the zodiac's natural homes. You both want safety and you both express love through care: a meal, a kept promise, a remembered detail. Each of you can finally stop being on guard.
The hard part
You can both be stubborn about hurt, Taurus by going silent and Cancer by retreating. Your comfort can narrow into a world of two, with the outside world closed off.
How your signs sit on the wheel
You sit two signs apart, a sixty-degree angle astrologers call a sextile. The tradition counts this as friendly: your elements feed each other without either having to become the other. The door is open, but it asks to be walked through.
Earth holds water. One of you gives the other a shore, and the other keeps the ground from going dry. It is one of the most naturally tender combinations there is.
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
Taurus is asking: Can I put my whole weight on you? Taurus brings steadiness and fears being hurried out of what is already good.
Cancer is asking: Is it safe to come out of the shell? Cancer brings shelter and fears being left after showing the soft part.
The desire under the question
Each of you wants to hear it will not be taken away. That fear, more than any quarrel, is the thing to bring into the light.
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.