Aries and Cancer Compatibility in Love and Relationships
Aries and Cancer in love are magnets at first and a hard pairing later, once the differences show. Aries speaks straight and loudly, Cancer takes every word home and remembers it.
What draws them together
Beside Cancer, Aries stops for the first time in ages. Cancer can listen, make soup when Aries has a cold, and ask how the day really went. Aries senses someone to protect, and that pleases them more than they would admit. Cancer, in turn, is drawn to Aries' courage: they know Aries would stand up to the neighbour or the clerk on their behalf. Both feel strongly and both are passionate, each differently. Aries in deeds and at once, Cancer deeply and for good.
Love and intimacy
Aries falls fast and shows it wholeheartedly, while Cancer needs to feel safe first and only then opens the door. What Aries takes for natural passion, Cancer reads as haste. Afterwards Cancer wants to stay curled up and talk, while Aries is already planning tomorrow. Physically they can be very good together: when they tune in, they are tender and stormy by turns. Much depends on whether Aries can slow down and Cancer can say what they want before taking offence.
Everyday life and home
Cancer wants a home to come back to for dinner, Aries a home to set out from. Cancer cooks and asks when Aries will be back, Aries hears that as checking up and answers that they don't know. Cancer keeps a gift from grandma and a box from the last flat, Aries throws out anything unused for three months. Money works the other way round: Cancer saves for harder times, Aries spends on experiences. In the long run, the couples who last are those where Aries phones from the road and Cancer stops waiting by the door.
Where it rubs and how to ease it
Aries blows up and has forgotten by teatime; Cancer files the sentence away and brings it out three years later. It doesn't help that Aries "didn't mean it": Cancer retreats into the shell, Aries tugs them out more loudly, and the harder Aries tugs, the tighter the shell closes. What has worked is for Aries to say, before storming out, that they will come back, and for Cancer to name what hurt before it grows. Sun signs are only the outline here: a friendly Moon or Venus in the two charts, or a well-matched ascendant, can soften all this.
Aries man and Cancer woman
An Aries man would like to protect a Cancer woman, yet his temper is where he hurts her most. What he says in full voice she takes to heart. She needs just one thing from him: a text saying "on my way" and a return at the hour he promised. She, for her part, could learn to say what troubles her before leaving him to guess.
Aries woman and Cancer man
An Aries woman goes where she likes and a Cancer man gladly follows, because nothing is dull with her. Trouble comes when she invites him to a party and he would rather stay in with a book, or when she tells him in anger that he is soft. A tear is not weakness, it is information. A quiet night in for him and a trip for her, without reproach, keeps both in good spirits.
Keeping it alive
- When you leave an argument, say when you will be back and when you will finish it.
- Keep a fixed evening at home for the two of you and another when each goes where they like.
- Write the apology down: Cancer can read it again.
elements: Aries=fire X Cancer=water
Aries and the other signs
Aries ★★★☆☆Taurus ★★★★☆Gemini ★★★☆☆Cancer ★★☆☆☆Leo ★★★★★Virgo ★★★☆☆Libra ★★☆☆☆Scorpio ★★☆☆☆Sagittarius ★★★★★Capricorn ★★☆☆☆Aquarius ★★★★☆Pisces ★★☆☆☆
Cancer and the other signs
Aries ★★☆☆☆Taurus ★★★★★Gemini ★★☆☆☆Cancer ★★★★☆Leo ★★★☆☆Virgo ★★★★☆Libra ★★☆☆☆Scorpio ★★★★★Sagittarius ★★★☆☆Capricorn ★★☆☆☆Aquarius ★★☆☆☆Pisces ★★★★★
Aries Zodiac Sign
Aries opens the zodiac: the first sign, cardinal fire, ruled by Mars. Aries want to start things, get there first and see results today, not next year.
Cancer Zodiac Sign
The Moon rules Cancer, the fourth sign and a cardinal water sign. Cancers need a home and people to look after and would do anything for family.