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Taurus and Cancer compatibility

Taurus and Cancer are two signs apart on the wheel, a sextile of about 60°: earth and water, one fixed and one cardinal. 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 Taurus from 20 April to 21 May and in Cancer from 21 June to 22 July. 6 famous couples in StarMap's dataset are a Taurus and a Cancer, where chance would give about 5.4: Elon Musk and Amber Heard, Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz and Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston among them. Among the 537 couples with both Sun signs certain, that makes this the 51st 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: Taurus and Cancer, with its dates to the minute, its traits and the famous people born under it.

6 famous Taurus and Cancer 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 Taurus and Cancer

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.

Earth with water

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.

Fixed with cardinal

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.

Taurus in love, Cancer in love

Taurus

In love, Taurus is slow to begin and slow to end. Affection shows in presence rather than declarations: cooking, turning up, remembering. The sign wants a settled life with someone and is unsettled by games and sudden changes. Its lesson is that holding on tightly is not the same as holding well.

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.

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

Famous Taurus and Cancer couples

Of the 537 spouse and partner pairs in StarMap’s dataset whose Sun signs are both certain, 6 are Taurus and Cancer. From the share of each sign among every couple’s members, chance alone would give about 5.4, a ratio of 1.10, which makes this the 51st most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 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 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 Cancer and the Moon in Taurus have pages of their own.

Questions people ask

Are Taurus and Cancer compatible?

By Sun sign alone, astrology reads Taurus and Cancer as a sextile, two signs apart: earth and water, fixed with cardinal. That is a reading of one placement of ten and not a verdict on two people. In StarMap's dataset of famous couples, 6 are Taurus and Cancer, against about 5.4 that chance would give, a ratio of 1.10. 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 Taurus and Cancer?

6 of the 537 couples in StarMap's dataset with both Sun signs certain, Elon Musk and Amber Heard, Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz and Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston among them. Chance alone would give about 5.4, which makes it the 51st most common pairing of the 78. Their sky match, from the angles between the two charts, averages 65 out of 100 against 67 for every couple counted.

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

25 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Cancer, Johan Cruyff, Penélope Cruz and Robert Pattinson among them. 22 people in StarMap's dataset have the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Taurus, Meryl Streep, Alice Munro and Imelda Marcos 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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