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Cancer and Sagittarius compatibility

Cancer and Sagittarius are five signs apart on the wheel, a quincunx of about 150°: water and fire, one cardinal and one mutable. Astrology reads the angle between two Sun signs as the first measure of a pair, and the rest of the two charts as the rest of the story.

This year the Sun is in Cancer from 21 June to 22 July and in Sagittarius from 22 November to 21 December. 3 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Cancer and a Sagittarius, where chance would give about 6.5: Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Ashley Cole and Cheryl. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 71st most common pairing of the 78. A Sun sign is one placement of ten, and the two whole charts say far more than the two signs.

Each sign has its own page: Cancer and Sagittarius, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

3 famous Cancer and Sagittarius couples, scored chart against chart.How do your two charts compare?Compare two whole charts, free: every angle between your planets

What astrology reads for Cancer and Sagittarius

Five signs apart is the quincunx, the angle the tradition reads as adjustment. The two signs share neither element nor modality and sit too far apart to be opposites, so there is no obvious ground in common and no obvious contest either. Astrologers describe these pairs as two people who keep finding that a word means something slightly different to each of them.

The reading is of a relationship that is made rather than found. Nothing comes free, and what the two people share has usually been built deliberately, from an interest in how differently the other one sees things. The tradition reads this angle as the one that most rewards curiosity and most punishes assumption, and leaves it to the rest of the two charts to say which the pair is better at.

Water with fire

Fire with water is read as the pairing of two strong feelings that do not speak the same language: fire shows what it feels by acting, water by sensing. The tradition reads the pair as intense, with a pull that is easy to feel and a rhythm that is hard to find, since fire tends to move on from a mood that water is still in. Astrologers read it as the pairing most changed by the rest of the two charts.

Cardinal with mutable

A cardinal sign with a mutable one is a starter with an adapter: the tradition describes the pairing as mobile, the cardinal sign choosing the direction and the mutable one fitting around it, and places the strain at the mutable sign's wish to be asked against the cardinal sign's wish to be followed.

These are readings of the Sun signs alone, written for reflection and entertainment. They describe tendencies the tradition assigns to an angle, not two people, and they do not say whether a pair lasts.

Cancer in love, Sagittarius in love

Cancer

In love, Cancer commits. It wants a home with someone in it, and it shows love by looking after: the meal, the blanket, the message to check you got back. It is easily hurt and slow to say so. Its lesson is that a partner cannot read the mood it is hiding, however well it reads theirs.

Sagittarius

In love, Sagittarius wants a companion for the road more than a keeper of the house. Freedom matters, so does laughter, and a partner who tries to pin it down usually ends up watching it go. Its lesson is that commitment can be an adventure rather than the end of one.

483 famous people have the Sun in Cancer for certain and 449 in Sagittarius: every Cancer Sun and every Sagittarius Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Cancer and Sagittarius couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 3 are Cancer and Sagittarius. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 6.5, a ratio of 0.46, which makes this the 71st most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 70 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted. With about seven couples a cell, a ratio between a half and double is what chance produces; the counts describe the dataset, not the signs.

All famous couples, each scored from both birth charts.

Both signs in one chart

The two signs also meet inside one chart, when the Sun is in one and the Moon in the other. Astrologers read a Sun and Moon five signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a quincunx between how a person is seen and how they feel.

Only people whose Sun and Moon signs do not depend on an unknown birth time are counted. The Moon in Sagittarius and the Moon in Cancer have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Cancer and Sagittarius compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Cancer and Sagittarius as a quincunx, five signs apart: water and fire, cardinal with mutable. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 3 are Cancer and Sagittarius, against about 6.5 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.46. The angles between two whole charts, Moon to Moon and Venus to Mars among them, say more than the Sun signs can; the comparison is free on StarMap.

How many famous couples are Cancer and Sagittarius?

3 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Ashley Cole and Cheryl. Chance alone would give about 6.5, which makes it the 71st most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 70 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

Who has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Sagittarius?

21 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Sagittarius, Gerald Ford, Mike Tyson and Vin Diesel among them. 18 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Cancer, Jimi Hendrix, Anna Maria Jopek and Ed Harris among them. The Moon's sign depends on the day and often on the hour of birth, so only people whose Moon sign is certain are counted.

Sun signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, in the tropical zodiac. Birth data and relationship data come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, from Astro-Databank with their Rodden rating. A couple is counted only when the Sun was in one sign for the whole of each birth date. Readings describe what the tradition assigns to an angle, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Compare two whole charts.

Photo credits (12 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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