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Cancer and Virgo compatibility

Cancer and Virgo are two signs apart on the wheel, a sextile of about 60°: water and earth, 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 Virgo from 23 August to 23 September. 9 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Cancer and a Virgo, where chance would give about 5.2: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay and Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 22nd 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 Virgo, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

9 famous Cancer and Virgo 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 Virgo

Two signs apart is the sextile, and astrology reads it as the angle of easy conversation. The signs belong to elements that feed each other, fire with air or earth with water, so the two people tend to want compatible things without wanting the same thing. The tradition reads the pairing as friendly first: it is the angle most often found between people who liked each other before anything else was decided.

Because the sextile asks little, it is also the angle the tradition says can be left to drift. There is no friction to work against and no mirror to look into, so the relationship tends to be as warm as the attention it is given. Astrologers read it as an opportunity rather than a pull, and look to the rest of the two charts for whatever holds the pair together when the conversation stops.

Water with earth

Earth with water is read as the gentlest of the mixed pairings: water feels and earth holds, and each tends to make the other feel safe. The tradition reads these two as home-makers in the broad sense, slow, loyal and private, with an ease that other pairs work for. The reading's caution is that comfort can become a habit, and that the pair may let the wider world go quiet around them.

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, Virgo 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.

Virgo

In love, Virgo shows care by being useful: the fixed tap, the sorted problem, the remembered preference. It is slower to speak of feeling than to act on it, and it can mistake improving a partner for loving them. Its lesson is to accept being looked after as well as it looks after others.

483 famous people have the Sun in Cancer for certain and 523 in Virgo: every Cancer Sun and every Virgo Sun, each with a birth chart.

Famous Cancer and Virgo couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 9 are Cancer and Virgo. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 5.2, a ratio of 1.73, which makes this the 22nd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 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.

3 more on the couples page. 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 two signs apart the way they read the two Suns above, as a sextile 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 Virgo and the Moon in Cancer have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Cancer and Virgo compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Cancer and Virgo as a sextile, two signs apart: water and earth, 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, 9 are Cancer and Virgo, against about 5.2 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.73. 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 Virgo?

9 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay and Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks among them. Chance alone would give about 5.2, which makes it the 22nd most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 67 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

36 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Virgo, Elon Musk, Ingmar Bergman and Gina Lollobrigida among them. 33 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Cancer, Keanu Reeves, Ronaldo and Luka Modrić 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.

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