Snake/Cancer and Ox/Capricorn meet at 80-85%, a full cross pairing that behaves like an old alliance. Snake/Cancer keeps a home like a small palace; Ox/Capricorn supplies the tireless persistence that keeps palaces paid for.
Both want the same rare thing: a settled, beautifully made life. Snake/Cancer's magnificent sense of aesthetics gives Ox/Capricorn's stick-to-itiveness something worth building toward, and the Ox's steadiness keeps the Snake's occasional doldrums short. Cancer and Capricorn face each other across the Western wheel and fit like lock and key: one tends the hearth, the other tends the ledger.
Ox/Capricorn, a repository of received knowledge, does enjoy being right, and Snake/Cancer is too gracious to brawl about it. The Snake redirects instead, smoothly, and mostly gets its way while the Ox keeps the trophy. Both prefer calm to victory.
Friction is domestic and small: the Ox's double portion of baked Alaska versus the Snake's shoes-off, spotless floors. Larger trouble only comes if the Ox's refusal to admit error meets a Snake grievance that has been polished too long in silence.
Snake/Cancer teaches Ox/Capricorn that taste is not frivolity and comfort is a legitimate goal. Ox/Capricorn teaches Snake/Cancer that endurance, not elegance, is what carries a household through the lean seasons.
At 80-85%, Snake/Cancer and Ox/Capricorn are strongly compatible. Two builders of the good settled life; the loudest recurring argument is crumbs on the marble.