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Aries and Cancer

Aries charges ahead and Cancer protects what matters.

The ram of Aries on a hand-coloured star card
Sidney Hall, Urania’s Mirror, 1824. Public domain.
The crab of Cancer on a hand-coloured star card
Sidney Hall, Urania’s Mirror, 1824. Public domain.

How Aries and Cancer get on

Aries charges ahead and Cancer protects what matters. Aries can hurt Cancer without noticing, and Cancer can sulk where Aries would shout. Kindness about different tempers turns this into a strong, loyal team.

Aries and Cancer are three signs apart, a square. You start, hold or change things at the same pace but want different things from them. The friction creates heat and growth. It works when you treat the clash as a problem to solve together.

Beyond the Sun sign

A Sun sign match is a first sketch. Two people also bring their Moon, Venus and Mars, and those often matter more for how a bond feels day to day. The check above compares all five from your birth dates.

Read about Aries and Cancer, or see every sign pair.

What does Solstice see in the two of you?

The check above uses birth dates. With both birth times and places, Solstice adds your rising signs, houses and the slower planets, and talks with you about the bond as it changes.

Ask Solstice