Neighbouring signs
Neighbouring signs sit side by side on the wheel but work very differently: different elements and different ways of acting. Each sees in the other what it lacks itself. These couples learn from each other, though at first they may not understand each other's motives.
Elements
Air and water are mind and feeling. The air partner explains and analyses, the water partner senses and feels. You may be drawn together by curiosity about how different you are, but in conflict you speak different languages. A rule that helps: listen to the feelings first, then look for a solution.
Pace and temperament
The cardinal sign leads, the mutable sign adapts. This couple moves together easily: one suggests, the other picks it up and finds flexible solutions. The mutable partner just needs to keep their own voice.
Gemini in love
For Gemini, love starts with a conversation. It needs a partner who keeps things interesting - who surprises, debates, jokes and does not limit its freedom. Gemini can seem fickle, but when it finds someone it is never bored with, it stays.
Cancer in love
In love, Cancer needs to feel safe. It opens up gradually and looks after its partner like family. Cancer hopes for the same tenderness, attention to small things and certainty that it will not be abandoned. Harshness and indifference hurt it more than it shows.
Why one sign isn't enough
Sign compatibility compares only the position of the Sun. Even two couples with the same signs have their Moon, Venus and Mars in different places - which is why it comes easily to some and takes work for others. Exact compatibility is calculated from both partners' birth charts.
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