The Gemini/Cancer combination brings together two very different women, but often works out surprisingly well. Gemini, an air sign, loves the freedom to shift with each changing breeze, forever seeking new ideas, new perceptions, new horizons. Cancer, a water sign, always seeks the emotional security that stems from deep rootedness in life. Restless Gemini craves freedom and is rootless; Cancer needs to build a home base, a source of emotional as well as physical nourishment. How can these two women meet half way?
Signs immediately adjacent to each other in the zodiac--such as Gemini and Cancer-- often share some common characteristics. Although the Gemini woman tends to take a detached standpoint and the Cancer woman an emotional one, they share a concern with their immediate gut-level perceptions. Both tend to relate all their experience to how it feels to them, as opposed to some abstract comprehensive system. This subjective focus is the key to their surprising rapport. In a sense, the Gemini woman is seeking a rooted relatedness to life as she processes all her thought and perceptions about the world around her. The Cancer woman can often help her find the deeper emotional nourishment that the Gemini really needs to complete herself. At the same time, the Gemini can offer her Cancer partner a cooler, more detached perspective, one that can help clarify intense Cancerian emotions. Cancer's emotionality is sometimes excessive; her Gemini partner can help her use her intellect to balance this tendency.
For this reason it is possible for these two women to have a successful relationship. The Cancer woman loves to spend a lot of time with her lover; the Gemini loves to have another to act as her mirror. Of course, their differences can make for problems. The Cancer woman is strongly focused in her home; the Gemini woman craves a lot of excitement outside the home. The Cancer woman tends to want a few close friends (including her partner); the Gemini loves to meet new people, and may get bored with the companionship of just a few people. The Cancer woman needs a lot of emotional support and solicitous attention, and her Gemini partner may have trouble empathizing with her. But with a little work these two can overcome these problems. Sexually, these two women are not ideally matched. The Cancer woman needs the expression of much more emotional tenderness than the Gemini is prone to give. If the Cancer woman can learn to talk about her emotional needs with her Gemini partner, their sexual relationship can improve.
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