Gemini and Cancer Love Compatibility

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Gemini and Cancer are roommates on the Zodiac wheel and could be close enough in degree for big compatibility. There's just a shade of difference between a late-degree Gemini and an early degree Cancer.

Look to the degrees of your suns but also to the rest of the chart, especially where there are air and water energies. When Gemini and Cancer are able to "get" the nature of the other, that gap can be bridged—with love, trust, and respect.

Odd Couple

A pairing of Gemini and Cancer brings together a clinger and a player, and that could spell trouble for both. Gemini is a player in the literal sense—play and lightness keep these people happy. Though Gemini is flirty and might have scenarios on the side, it's not necessarily a sign of being a player in the physical sense (many lovers). The play is from the Geminis' mind, and this makes them distracted lovers, especially when out together.

Cancer people find it hard to feel that connection that they need to build a friendship or more. Many Geminis are warm and emotional, though, and there again, it's the whole chart—and person—that's the key.

Gemini has an intellectual nature and Cancer a feeling one. But the combo is a delight when one plays with the other and brings out the best qualities of both.

Common ground is the world of the imagination, enchantment, wonder, curiosity, and learning about this infinitely changeable world. The glue for this relationship is the experience of life itself if both put the focus on that adventure.

The days are never boring because moods and thoughts can change in an instant, and there's always more to learn, know, and experience.

New Love

The initial sparks come through humor because these two love to laugh at the lunacy of life. But the dating agenda is very different, with Gemini finding it a game and Cancer out for a sure thing. Cancers get nervous at the twins' light, noncommittal air, and crawl into their carapace of self-protection.

Gemini may want to be in the mix among fabulous people, and the crab craves intimate spaces and loves home most of all. Cancer wants to feel someone out emotionally, and Gemini hovers more in the mental realm. When the natural flirty Gemini nature comes out, Cancer gets frightfully jealous, and brooding ensues.

This pairing works when other complementary signs bridge the gap. In general, Cancer helps Gemini get in touch with his or her sensual and emotional side. Gemini's detached vision can lift Cancer up out of subjective swamps and help him or her gain perspective.

Together they're astute people-watchers and can share notes on the nuances of body language and speech patterns—and especially what's not said. They've got the full spectrum covered and would make a great writing duo for dramedies.

When Cancer accepts and learns to trust the free-flying Gemini nature, and when Gemini shows the wisdom to tread lightly on the crab's feelings, things can work out. Cancer can find it freeing to bounce around perspectives, with Gemini taking things less personally.

Subjective-Objective

Gemini's gift of lightening things up helps the lost child in crabs see from outside themselves—and even laugh at their own terribly infantile moments. Cancers can be lost in their own (subjective) world, and Geminis have the detachment to help them see and laugh at themselves.  

Cancer shows Gemini that it's OK to feel deeply and be vulnerable. A good sign of enduring love here is if the sound of laughter follows them wherever they go.

With love and some evolution, this union becomes like a seabird—there's high flying punctuated by plunges into oceanic depths. The key is learning to be gentle with the other when one is not "in his or her element."

Famous comedic pair: "Absolutely Fabulous"' Joanna Lumley (Gemini) and Jennifer Saunders (Cancer)

Upside: Love to laugh; an eye (and ear) for the absurd; childlike, playful; both changeable; close on Zodiac wheel; family (sibling) oriented; friendship cultivators; entertainers and party hosts; curious about people

Downside: Erratic moods, unstable emotional lives, hot and cold (and everything in between), aloof (Cancer) vs. detached (Gemini) as a defense, a thinker (Gemini) vs. a feeler (Cancer)

Element and quality: Mutable air (Gemini) and cardinal water (Cancer)