Cancer and Virgo compatibility

Based on the elements and modes of Cancer and Virgo: the Sun-sign half of our compatibility report. The report adds the Moon on both birthdays, which a page about two signs can't know.

	Cancer	Virgo
Dates	June 21 – July 22	August 23 – September 22
Element	Water	Earth
Modality	Cardinal (starts things)	Mutable (adaptable)
Ruling planet	The Moon	Mercury

Two scores from the signs

Temperament: 80 out of 100. Your Sun signs are water and earth, elements that traditionally support each other (fire with air, earth with water), and the rule scores that high: one tends to feed the other.

Everyday pace: 85 out of 100. One of your Sun signs is cardinal (it starts things) and one is mutable (it adapts). One tends to set the course and the other to adjust it, which the rule scores highest.

Each score is one fixed rule about the two signs, given with it, so the same pair always gets the same score whichever sign comes first. It describes how easily the signs' tendencies fit together, not how a relationship goes.

On the zodiac wheel

Two signs apart, 60° (a sextile). Signs two apart have elements that traditionally support each other. Tradition reads the pair as easy company that grows with a little effort.

Talking and everyday life

Earth and water tend to talk gently and seriously: water brings the feeling, earth brings the steadiness, and both like to be taken seriously.

Day to day one of you tends to set the direction and the other to adjust as you go, so decisions tend to come easily.

Where it gets hard

Even water and earth can pull different ways when you are both tired: one wants to talk it out, the other wants a break.

Whoever sets the course may take the other's flexibility for agreement, when it was only patience.

Questions to talk about together

What makes each of us feel safe with the other?
When one of us sets the course, how does the other say wait?

These are tendencies to talk about, not a verdict on a relationship. Take what rings true and leave the rest.