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Cancer and Scorpio compatibility

Cancer and Scorpio are four signs apart on the wheel, a trine of about 120°: two water signs of the same element, one cardinal and one fixed. 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 Scorpio from 23 October to 22 November. 5 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Cancer and a Scorpio, where chance would give about 6.1: Leonardo DiCaprio and Gisele Bündchen, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and Joaquin Phoenix and Liv Tyler among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 58th 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 Scorpio, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

5 famous Cancer and Scorpio 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 Scorpio

Four signs apart is the trine, and the two signs share an element. Astrology reads this as the easiest angle between Sun signs: each person recognises their own way of running on energy in the other, and the usual translation that two people have to do for each other is mostly unnecessary. The tradition reads trine pairs as the ones who fall into step quickly and keep step without effort.

Ease has a reading of its own. Astrologers note that a trine gives nothing to push against, so a pair can agree their way into a rut, each confirming the other's habits. The tradition treats the angle as a gift that still has to be used, and reads the modality of the two signs, which differs in every trine pair, as where the small useful differences lie.

Water with water

Two water signs are read as a pair that feels its way. The tradition describes them as close and intuitive, each sensing the other's weather before a word is said, with an intimacy that outsiders find hard to enter. The caution in the reading is that two sensitive people can set each other off, moods travelling between them without either knowing where the first one came from.

Cardinal with fixed

One sign is cardinal and one is fixed: a starter and a keeper. The tradition reads the pairing as complementary, the cardinal sign supplying new directions and the fixed sign holding to the ones worth keeping, and as a contest when the one that starts wants to start again and the one that holds has only just settled.

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, Scorpio 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.

Scorpio

In love, Scorpio does not do casual well. It wants the whole person and offers the same, and it reads a partner closely enough to be unnerving. Betrayal is not forgiven quickly. Its lesson is that intimacy needs some air, and that loyalty cannot be proved by jealousy.

483 famous people have the Sun in Cancer for certain and 466 in Scorpio: every Cancer Sun and every Scorpio Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Cancer and Scorpio couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 5 are Cancer and Scorpio. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 6.1, a ratio of 0.81, which makes this the 58th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 66 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 four signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a trine 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 Scorpio and the Moon in Cancer have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Cancer and Scorpio compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Cancer and Scorpio as a trine, four signs apart: two water signs, cardinal with fixed. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 5 are Cancer and Scorpio, against about 6.1 that chance would give, a ratio of 0.81. 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 Scorpio?

5 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gisele Bündchen, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and Joaquin Phoenix and Liv Tyler among them. Chance alone would give about 6.1, which makes it the 58th most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 66 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

31 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Scorpio, Nelson Mandela, Zinedine Zidane and Julian Assange among them. 16 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Cancer, Drake, David de Gea and Dmitry Muratov 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 (16 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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