Few couples in the zodiac are as homey as this one. You both look for security, tenderness and a place where you feel at ease. The relationship is calm and deep, though at times too closed off from the world.
How you fit together
This is an easy match. You get along well, you cheer each other on and things flow on their own. You're like two friends who are into each other.
Taurus and Cancer in love
Cancer cares through emotion and Taurus through practical things, and together you build a cozy nest. You love dinners at home, traditions, family and little rituals. Taurus gives Cancer the stability it needs to stop worrying, and Cancer gives Taurus a tenderness that disarms it. Together you feel safe, and everything else rests on that.
Friction comes from Cancer's mood swings, which Taurus doesn't always understand, and from Taurus's stubbornness, which Cancer reads as insensitivity. You can also get overprotective and shut yourselves so far into your own world that you stop growing or seeing friends. If you talk about what you feel and open the front door now and then, you're among the couples that last the longest.
There's tenderness between you and plenty of sensuality. You both need trust and affection, and you give each other both without effort.
As friends
You're there for each other no matter what. Cancer remembers everything and Taurus always has the door open. Birthdays, rough patches or moving day, you show up.
At work
You complement each other well in family businesses or caregiving work. Cancer has intuition and Taurus a good nose for money. Taking risks or standing up to an outsider is harder for you.
What brings you together
- Lots of tenderness, feet on the ground.
- You both adore your home.
- Faithfulness on both sides.
Where you clash
- Cancer's ups and downs.
- How hardheaded Taurus can be.
- You shut yourselves away in your own world.
Your elements
Water nourishes earth and earth gives water its shape. Few pairings in the zodiac are this tender and stable.
Your modalities
One proposes and the other sustains. It works if the cardinal sign respects the fixed sign's pace and the fixed sign lets itself be moved now and then.
Take care of the nest, and leave it often.
The cards above are the ones tradition gives each sign: The Hierophant for Taurus and The Chariot for Cancer. To see how your story is going right now, try the love tarot.