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Compatibility
Cancer Ox and Virgo Pig

firstwest and secondwest naturally share an easygoing, pleasurable connection, adding humor and cheerfulness to the respectful, if at times reticent, combination of the firsteast and secondeast.

Western Zodiac sign, Cancer
Western Zodiac sign, Virgo

Western Zodiac

Cancer and Virgo

Compatibility overview

This connection offers a haven of sweet, effortless energy. Other combinations may seem to burn more intensely, but firstwest and secondwest can usually be relied on to have each other's backs in hard times, and to share great humor and warmth when the coast is clear. The result is a terrific foundation for all kinds of relationships.

Cancer and Virgo - Relationship Horoscope

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Being two steps apart around the Western zodiac wheel, Cancer and Virgo share a Sextile connection. This energy is well known for its relaxed, peaceful character. From the beginning, the highly sensitive and impressionable Cancer tends to feel instinctually comforted by Virgo's dependable, predictable nature. Cancer's introspective influence, meanwhile, can open up a world of imaginative freedom for the more routine-oriented Virgo.

The elements here are fabulously compatible, with Cancer contributing the emotional depth of Water, and Virgo the patience and determination of Earth. Indeed, one of the Sextile's most important benefits is that these two signs are able to collaborate sensitively and productively, while at the same time maintaining a clear sense of their own independent identity. Shared enterprises are strongly favored by the respective modalities, with the pure, inchoate creativity of Cancer's Cardinal energy naturally complementing the reflective Mutable energy of Virgo, which is more attuned to implications or consequences.

In fact, the principal challenge for many Cancer and Virgo pairings is that relations sometimes proceed too smoothly. The old saying that the squeaky wheel gets the grease can have plenty of application to human relationships, and this match has the potential to hum along quite happily in the background, without the signs acknowledging its full potential for nourishment and pleasure.

The flip side of this unassuming energy is that Cancer and Virgo can often drop in and out of the relationship with enviable straightforwardness, replicating their equable give-and-take with a minimum of fuss. It would be shame for these two not to acknowledge the quiet preciousness of their connection, though, at least sometimes, for there are terrific prospects of a dependable and inspiring bond, as and when they both need.

Celebrity Cancer/Virgo Pairings*

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Tim Burton and Eva Green
Tim Burton and Eva Green (click for attribution/s)

Eva Green (7/6/1980, Cancer Monkey), Tim Burton (8/25/1958, Virgo Dog) : The director and actor have collaborated multiple times, including on the films, Dark Shadows (2012), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), and Dumbo (2019). Green described in 2019: "[Burton] always wants you to feel comfortable and he is very collaborative...He is definitely very warm, very human. Maybe he talks less than other directors, he communicates more with his gestures and you have to understand his body language...It’s a very moving thing and it’s true [that Burton likes to make movies about outcasts and misfits]...I find it quite boring to want to be like everybody else. [Burton] is the one who really knows and understands the misunderstood."

Diana, Princess of Wales (7/1/1961, Cancer Ox), Julia Samuel (9/12/1959, Virgo Pig) : The British royal (first wife of King Charles III) and psychotherapist shared a close friendship, before Diana's tragic death in a car crash in 1997. Samuel subsequently became godmother to Diana's grandson, Prince George (the son of Diana's elder son, Prince William). Samuel described in 2015: "There was something about [Diana] and something about me that just worked. It was a lovely thing...She loved it when she could do the ordinary stuff like washing up or emptying the dishwasher. She was brilliant at moving between these two worlds and whether she was meeting President Reagan or having supper in my kitchen, she was always herself."

Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach (click for attribution/s)

Ringo Starr (7/7/1940, Cancer Dragon), Barbara Bach (8/27/1947, Virgo Pig) : The musician and model/actress have been married since 1981. Together, they survived a car crash in 1980, entered rehab in 1988, and became vegetarians. Asked about the secret of their relationship in a joint interview, Bach said, "I love the man, and that's it." Starr added, "There's no escape … I think I love Barbara as much [today] as I did [when we met] — and I'm beyond blessed that she loves me and we're still together."

Bryan Brown (6/23/1947, Cancer Pig), Rachel Ward (9/12/1957, Virgo Rooster) : The two actors married in 1983 and have three children. They met on the set of the mini-series, The Thorn Birds (1983), and have collaborated on multiple further projects, including the films, The Umbrella Woman (1987), On the Beach (2000), and Peter Rabbit (2018). Ward described in 2009, "It felt very instant. I remember meeting him, shaking his hand and feeling this extraordinary sense of relief. I just remember having that incredible feeling of phew, phew. There was a connection very quickly. I felt that he was the masculine to my feminine, the yin to my yang. I sensed that he was strong. He knew his mind. He had the right priorities and values that I respected."

Pink and Carey Hart
Pink and Carey Hart (click for attribution/s)

Carey Hart (7/17/1975, Cancer Rabbit), Pink (9/8/1979, Virgo Sheep) : The musician and motorcross racer married in 2006 and have two children together. Pink described in 2021: "For us, the answer is there's no quit button. Unless we find one. Right now, we don't have one [laughing]. But it's also couples' counseling. Learning how to speak the same language, 'cause we don't speak the same language...A lot of people get Carey wrong when they think, 'Oh [he is] this moto-dude, hypermasculine and tattoos.' He's just the most sensitive, supportive guy in the world. He never says no. Any dream I've ever had, 'Yes, I'm with you. Whatever you want to do.' It takes swallowing egos sometimes. It's beautiful because it allows us to have this crazy, magical adventure and the kids."

Mike Tyson (6/30/1966, Cancer Horse), Lennox Lewis (9/2/1965, Virgo Snake) : The two boxing world champions are good friends, who fought for the heavyweight world championship in 2002 (Lewis winning by knockout in the eighth round). Lewis described in 2020: "[When we met and trained together in 1983,] [t]hat was eye opening, it was a great experience for me. He taught me about boxers I’ve never seen before. He took me up to his room and pulled this white sheet down and we watched these old tapes of fighters. He was very educated in the history of boxing, better than I was at that time...We’ve had a long history together. Even when he was saying he wanted to eat my children, I thought he was a vegetarian. That was weird, but we fought and got that out of the way. Mike Tyson has always shown a lot of respect in the world of boxing, especially to me. I love him for that. He speaks it the way it is. He’s the most real fighter out there, he doesn’t hold anything back. We’re on a different level when it comes to friendship because we have such a history together."

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker (click for attribution/s)

Vin Diesel (7/18/1967, Cancer Sheep), Paul Walker (9/12/1973, Virgo Ox) : The two actors formed a close friendship and displayed memorable on-screen chemistry in the Fast and the Furious film franchise, before Walker died tragically in a car accident in 2013. Diesel is godfather to Walker's daughter, and walked her down the aisle at her wedding in 2021. Diesel has described his relationship with Paul Walker as akin to a brotherhood, saying in 2016: "The last three years have been some of the hardest of my life because of losing my brother like that. I’d been to Brazil two times before. Both times that I’ve been here, I’ve always been with my brother, Pablo. It was a lot of tissues. It was a hard morning for me yesterday because I was here."

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Chinese Zodiac sign, the Ox
Chinese Zodiac sign, the Pig

Chinese Zodiac

Ox and Pig

Compatibility overview

While the Chinese zodiac is well known for extreme judgements about negative or positive matches, the combination of firsteast and secondeast tends not to attract much direct attention. In fact, although this match involves some potentially unsettling energy, there are also fine harmonies at play. Relationships between these contrasting souls may thus prove surprisingly effective.

Ox and Pig - Relationship Horoscope

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The 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac are divided into four Trine Families. Relationships between the four families tend to follow patterns similar to the elements in Western astrology. Truth be told, the respective families of the Pig (with the Sheep and Rabbit) and the Ox (with the Snake and Rooster) are generally regarded as not very harmonious, with some of the matches between them quite precarious (e.g., the Pig and the Snake, or the Ox and the Sheep). Fortunately for the Ox and Pig themselves, however, there are some powerful affinities that can aid in making their relationship enjoyable and successful.

The personality of the Pig is associated strongly with homely qualities of comfort and generosity, which can knit superbly with the Ox's defining desire to build security for themselves and their loved ones. Also, the Ox may be characteristically the most determined and hard-working of all the Eastern signs, but the Pig can also be exceptionally productive when they are motivated and relaxed. Hence these two may form a strong bond, whether in family, social, or professional contexts, based on mutual admiration and advancement.

Difficulties between these two are perhaps most likely to stem from tension between the rigidity of the Ox and the trusting naivety of the Pig. In the eyes of the Ox, the Pig may at times seem too easily trodden on or manipulated to deserve respect. The Pig, on the other hand, may sometimes find the Ox to be an unpleasantly blunt instrument, which is likely to draw the Pig into various forms of escapism, punctuated by the odd fit of pique. Overall, there is a need for some independence here, to make sure that over-familiarity is not at risk of breeding contempt.

Given the space they need, however, these two together are quite capable of forming a shared vision about what they can achieve together, then working tirelessly as a partnership to translate their shared aspirations into reality.

Celebrity Ox/Pig Pairings*

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James Righton and Keira Knightley
James Righton and Keira Knightley (click for attribution/s)

Keira Knightley (3/26/1985, Aries Ox), James Righton (8/25/1983, Virgo Pig) : The actor and musician began a relationship in 2011 and married in 2013. They have two children together. Speaking about their different levels of earnings, Knightley has responded: "That’s what our national newspapers are telling girls – that you have to feel guilty about doing well if it’s making a man feel uncomfortable, which it doesn’t with my husband and it didn’t with my dad. But yet our society is telling us that’s what it should be."

George Clooney (5/6/1961, Taurus Ox), Talia Balsam (3/5/1959, Pisces Pig) : The two actors were married from 1989 to 1992, before Clooney embarked on twenty years of world-famous bacherlorhood. Both have continued to speak positively about the other, with Clooney saying, "[I] married the one girl that I truly loved and had loved for years," and, "I probably — definitely — wasn't someone who should have been married at that point. I just don't feel like I gave Talia a fair shot. I was responsible for the failure of that marriage." After appearing in HBO's Divorce (2016-2019), Balsam said: "If you're trying to compare [Clooney] to Thomas Haden Church's character, not at all. Absolutely, George is charming. He remains charming. I've worked with him."

Kate Mara and Rooney Mara
Kate Mara and Rooney Mara (click for attribution/s)

Rooney Mara (4/17/1985, Aries Ox), Kate Mara (2/27/1983, Pisces Pig) : The sisters are both award-winning actors. Kate Mara described: "[F]rom the time I was 14 ‘til, I think, my sister [Rooney] started acting when I was 20, 21, I didn’t have someone to share this craziness with. So when she became an actor, we actually lived together in my apartment for the first year or two. We would both go on auditions and come home and talk about the terror of certain auditions and funny stories and so it just became something super special that you can actually bond with a sibling with which is very rare."

Tabitha King (3/24/1949, Aries Ox), Stephen King (9/21/1947, Virgo Pig) : The two authors have been married since 1971. After an Associated Press article referred to a donation having been made by "Stephen King and his wife", Tabitha published a statement saying, "Wife is a relationship or status. It is not an identity...You could have made other choices. You could have referred to me as OfStephen. Or His Old Lady. Or His-Ball-And-Chain."

Paul Shaffer and David Letterman
Paul Shaffer and David Letterman (click for attribution/s)

Paul Shaffer (11/28/1949, Sagittarius Ox), David Letterman (4/12/1947, Aries Pig) : The talk show host and musician famously collaborated on both Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) and The Late Show with David Letterman (1993–2015). Letterman described: "We did 6,000 shows together, and [Shaffer] was the most important part of my life for every one of those 6,000 shows. Whether the show was good, not good, mediocre, ugly, awful, Paul Shaffer, you can count on him and the fantastic music. The thing that I miss most, other than the friends that I worked with, is not having the great privilege of live music every night."


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Final Words

The Sextile connection between firstwest and secondwest is perhaps the most uniquely joyful and low-maintenance in the Western zodiac, offering both any-kind-of-weather reliability and belly-laughs in spades. This injects welcome lightness to the dynamic between the firsteast and secondeast in this relationship, two signs who often admire and care about each other greatly, but can also experience a sense of not being fully appreciated or understood. Overall, this is an energy matrix that bodes well for trustworthiness and humor, accentuating the highs, and smoothing quickly over the lows.

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