♋︎ Cancer and Sagittarius ♐︎
Scored on the four kootas that need only two rashis, and clear about the twenty-one points that need a birth time.
A solid middle. Nothing here obstructs; nothing here carries the match on its own. These are the four Ashtakoot kootas that two rashis are enough to work out: Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot. The other four need a birth time, and they are worth twenty-one points.
The four kootas
what each one foundCompatible - Groom (Brahmin) is equal or higher than Bride (Kshatriya)
Bride (Manava) has natural influence over Groom (Jalachara)
One friend, one neutral - Very good compatibility
6/8 Bhakoot Dosha — strongest classical caution indicator; benefits from extra mindfulness — but one-sided friendship (Jupiter→Moon) — partial Bhakoot relief, so all seven points stand.
The count between them
Bhakoot, seven of the fifteenSagittarius sits 6th from Cancer in the rashi chakra. Bhakoot reads that distance and nothing else. Not the elements, and not the lords.
Shadashtak (6/8) — One-sided friendship (Jupiter→Moon) — partial Bhakoot relief
Both directions
Gun Milan is not symmetricChange the order of the two people and the score changes: Cancer first scores 9.5, Sagittarius first scores 8.5. Varna compares the first person’s varna against the second’s, and Bhakoot counts from the first rashi, so the order is part of the question.
| Koota | Cancer first | Sagittarius first | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varna | 1/1 | 0/1 | moves |
| Vashya | 1/2 | 1/2 | — |
| Graha Maitri | 4/5 | 4/5 | — |
| Bhakoot | 3.5/7 | 3.5/7 | — |
| Total | 9.5/15 | 8.5/15 | differs |
Compared with the usual answer
element table vs kootasThe first bar is how nearly every compatibility page scores this pair: it looks up ten element pairings, which gives eight distinct answers for all 144 sign pairs. The second is four of the eight Ashtakoot kootas, which give 27. Neither is a reading, but only one of them can tell Cancer and Sagittarius apart from Cancer and Aries.
What two signs cannot tell you
twenty-one pointsTwenty-one of the thirty-six points depend on the nakshatra, which is the Moon’s exact position at birth. The Moon moves through all 27 of them in under a month. No page that knows only two rashis can work them out, and any page that prints a “36-point score” from two sun signs is making twenty-one of them up.
Worth knowing
facts you can checkGraha Maitri scores 4 of 5 for that pairing alone: friend neutral. Every rashi pair with those two lords scores the same five points, so this koota is worth checking and not worth reading on its own.
That distance is the whole of Bhakoot, the largest koota at seven points. It falls in the 6/8 position, which carries a classical caution.
The element table gives this pair 45%. The four rashi kootas give 9.5 out of 15 one way round and 8.5 the other.
Cancer with the others
the first rashi never changesFifteen points is where two rashis stop.
Gun Milan scores thirty-six across eight kootas and checks Mangal dosha on both charts. It needs two birth times, and it is free.