Taurus and Cancer Compatibility
Taurus and Cancer are a sextile, two signs apart, an earth sign and a water sign. In general they tend to support and nourish each other.
How Taurus and Cancer fit together
You are two signs apart, which is called a sextile, and your elements tend to support each other. It is a friendly, easy-going connection, with a feeling that you can work together well and that the other adds something you were missing.
Earth and water nourish each other. Water gives earth feeling and softness, and earth gives water shape and safety, so this element pairing tends to feel supportive and quietly devoted.
One is cardinal and the other fixed. The cardinal sign starts things and the fixed sign sees them through, which can be a good division of labour when both respect it.
Taurus in love
Taurus loves slowly and for keeps. Affection shows in steady presence, touch, good food and doing what it said it would, and once it has chosen someone it tends to stay.
Cancer in love
Cancer loves by caring. It remembers the small things, builds a home around the people it loves, and shows affection through meals, protection and the feeling that you are safe with it.
What each brings, and what each needs
Taurus brings loyalty, calm and a talent for making life comfortable, and needs patience, consistency, and time to trust before anything speeds up. The hardest parts tend to be change that arrives suddenly, and saying out loud what it wants.
Cancer brings tenderness, memory and a talent for making a place feel like home, and needs emotional safety, reassurance, and a partner who answers feelings kindly. The hardest parts tend to be taking criticism lightly, and letting go of old hurts.
Making it work
Make the effort to turn that easy rapport into plans and conversations. A sextile gives you the opening, and it works best when you both step through it.
This is the Sun sign view only
This page looks at two Sun signs. A full picture also depends on where your Moons, Venuses and Mars signs fall, and how the two charts lie over each other, which is called synastry. You can try the free compatibility tool on this site, or build each chart with the birth chart calculator. For each sign on its own, read the Taurus compatibility guide and the Cancer compatibility guide.
Questions about Taurus and Cancer compatibility
Are Taurus and Cancer compatible?
Any two signs can build a lasting relationship, and the Sun sign is only one layer of a chart. As a sextile, two signs apart, Taurus and Cancer tend to support and nourish each other, and the main thing to work on is turning easy rapport into plans.
What do Taurus and Cancer have in common?
You do not share an element or a mode, so your common ground is the effort to understand each other. Taurus is ruled by Venus and Cancer by the Moon.
What does each need from the other?
Taurus needs patience, consistency, and time to trust before anything speeds up. Cancer needs emotional safety, reassurance, and a partner who answers feelings kindly.
See every pairing on the zodiac compatibility page.