
The Taurus man and Cancer woman form one of the best relationships in Astrology. This is a relationship that feels like home, and they are more on the same page than most. Why are these two so compatible? Because they have the same values. The number one being security in life.
Taurus Man and Cancer Woman Love Compatibility
What they look for in a relationship is something the other provides, and there is no denying their compatibility with one another. The Cancer woman opens the eyes and heart of the Taurus man, and the Taurus man supports the Cancer woman in the way she is looking to be loved.
There is a lot of sensuality and romance between these two, and if they are both on the same page in life, this couple often ends up at the altar.
Taurus Man Cancer Woman Attraction
The Cancer woman is attracted to the steady demeanor of the Taurus man. The Taurus man is a provider, and although the Cancer woman can take care of herself, she is attracted to someone who can provide that stable and safe support in her life as well. The Taurus man immediately feels that same sense of comfort with the Cancer woman, and they often build the relationship on common ground. Cancer wants to nurture, and Taurus wants to consume. They are getting what each other is looking for in the relationship.
The Taurus man feels a sense of openness around the Cancer woman, and he wants to get to know her almost instantly.
These are two people who are easy-going, affectionate and secure in themselves. They are each other's equals in many ways, and there is more keeping them together than tearing them apart. Meeting each other is another story, however, because both people prefer to be at home than anywhere else. However, these two often meet through mutual friends or acquaintances, while shopping or at a restaurant, or through some time of art or creative event that they both enjoy. Physically, there is a lot of attraction here right away.
Taurus Man Cancer Woman Relationship
The relationship between the Taurus man and the Cancer woman is one of loyalty, beauty, and comfort. They are both attracted to the finer things in life, but also both tend to be more frugal or safe with their finances. This benefits the relationship because they can create and build a nice life together, and still keep their financial values and goals intact and on the same page. This is a couple that will love cooking together, hosting dinner parties, being lazy on the couch, and doing nothing together, and they overall feel safe and nurtured in each other's presence.
The Taurus man opens up a lot of new avenues for the Cancer woman as well. He is the more social of the two and can take the Cancer woman to places she’s never been before, opening her eyes to new avenues of happiness. The Cancer woman, being the nurturer she is, does something to the heart of the Taurus man that he deeply values. He tends to be more reserved emotionally, yet with the Cancer woman, he opens up to a more vulnerable and heartfelt side to himself and life. This is a relationship where they are often in harmony and balance with each other, and that lasts for time to come.
Taurus Man Cancer Woman Sexually
The sexual chemistry between these two is comfortable and sweet. They tend to have a good balance between the give and take here and are often slower when it comes to their sex life. They are both willing to wait until they both feel safe within the relationship and tend to take things more slowly here than most.
The Cancer woman and Taurus man are committed to each other at the end of the day and want to build the relationship from the ground up. These two have a very fulfilling love life and sex life overall, though.
The Taurus man is a romantic, so candles, chocolates, flowers, and all of the above are something he can provide and something that they both enjoy and thrive in. It’s all about the vibe and the setting for these two, and they are the type to create a nice ambiance in the bedroom and have this type of sensual energy here.
The Cancer woman loves a man who knows what they want, and the Taurus man knows exactly what he wants. They are a magnet to each other, and their sex life is where they connect and meet in the middle.
Taurus Man Cancer Woman Relationship Compatibility
The Cancer woman is ruled by the Moon, a feminine and emotional celestial body. The Taurus man is ruled by Venus, the goddess of love herself. So, this is a relationship that is full of love and deep emotions at the end of the day. They don’t have to worry about romantic gestures or telling each other how they feel because they are both very connected to this part of life in the first place.
There is a lot of admiration in this connection, and there is little room for doubt here. They are honest with each other about their expectations in the relationship right away, and this forms a basis of trust and compassion in the partnership.
The Cancer woman is a lover girl and makes one of Astrology's best partners to have. The Taurus man rules the 2nd house in Astrology and provides value and often abundance in the relationships he enters. This a slow and steady love, but one that has the potential to lead to some significant rewards and intimacy in the long haul. These two coming together are like meeting each other's matches.
They are both very physically affectionate, and they have no problem sharing their love and telling each other how much they mean to each other. This is a sweet, safe, and compatible pairing, and knowing this about each other makes them feel comfortable in the connection.
Taurus Man Cancer Woman Challenges
The downfalls of this relationship can occur when they aren’t on the same page with something. Both of these signs are stubborn, the Taurus man, especially not budging on much. The Cancer woman, on the other hand, tends to close off and go into her shell when conflict arises, not allowing the needed conversations to take place to get out of a hard place. When this relationship moves through challenges, it can be hard to get on the other side of it.
The Cancer woman is the Queen of creating boundaries, and the Taurus man is the King of pushing them, so you can see how conflicts can arise here. If they can both loosen up more and be willing to work with each other to meet in the middle, then they can easily overcome these challenges.
The Taurus man will often have to leave his ego at the door, and the Cancer woman will have to understand her own emotions before demanding the Taurus man to. Things can be up and down here at times, but the Taurus man is not one to shy away from the Cancer woman’s mood swings. He can provide patience when he needs to, and she provides the love needed for the Taurus man to feel safe in the relationship as well. They will need to have a lot of trust and understanding with each other, but at the end of the day, there is a lot more compatibility than incompatibility between the two.
Overview: Taurus Man Cancer Woman Compatibility
Home is where these two are. There are some zodiac signs where their compatibility points to a more short-term relationship or fling, but this pairing is not one of them. Meeting each other is not the easiest, but once these two meet and come together, it’s often for the long term. This is a sweet, compatible, sensual, and romantic pairing, and the compatibility is strong with the Cancer woman and Taurus man.
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Because We Are Still IT, Girl: It Girl 100 Returns
Last year, when our xoNecole team dropped our inaugural It Girl 100 honoree list, the world felt, ahem, a bit brighter.
It was March 2024, and we still had a Black woman as the Vice President of the United States. DEI rollbacks weren’t being tossed around like confetti. And more than 300,000 Black women were still gainfully employed in the workforce.
Though that was just nineteen months ago, things were different. Perhaps the world then felt more receptive to our light as Black women.
At the time, we launched It Girl 100 to spotlight the huge motion we were making as dope, GenZennial Black women leaving our mark on culture. The girls were on the rise, flourishing, drinking their water, minding their business, leading companies, and learning to do it all softly, in rest. We wanted to celebrate that momentum—because we love that for us.
So, we handpicked one hundred It Girls who embody that palpable It Factor moving through us as young Black women, the kind of motion lighting up the world both IRL and across the internet.
It Girl 100 became xoNecole’s most successful program, with the hashtag organically reaching more than forty million impressions on Instagram in just twenty-four hours. Yes, it caught on like wildfire because we celebrated some of the most brilliant and influential GenZennial women of color setting trends and shaping culture. But more than that, it resonated because the women we celebrated felt seen.
Many were already known in their industries for keeping this generation fly and lit, but rarely received recognition or flowers. It Girl 100 became a safe space to be uplifted, and for us as Black women to bask in what felt like an era of our brilliance, beauty, and boundless influence on full display.
And then, almost overnight, it was as if the rug was pulled from under us as Black women, as the It Girls of the world.
Our much-needed, much-deserved season of ease and soft living quickly metamorphosed into a time of self-preservation and survival. Our motion and economic progression seemed strategically slowed, our light under siege.
The air feels heavier now. The headlines colder. Our Black girl magic is being picked apart and politicized for simply existing.
With that climate shift, as we prepare to launch our second annual It Girl 100 honoree list, our team has had to dig deep on the purpose and intention behind this year’s list. Knowing the spirit of It Girl 100 is about motion, sauce, strides, and progression, how do we celebrate amid uncertainty and collective grief when the juice feels like it is being squeezed out of us?
As we wrestled with that question, we were reminded that this tension isn’t new. Black women have always had to find joy in the midst of struggle, to create light even in the darkest corners. We have carried the weight of scrutiny for generations, expected to be strong, to serve, to smile through the sting. But this moment feels different. It feels deeply personal.
We are living at the intersection of liberation and backlash. We are learning to take off our capes, to say no when we are tired, to embrace softness without apology.
And somehow, the world has found new ways to punish us for it.

In lifestyle, women like Kayla Nicole and Ayesha Curry have been ridiculed for daring to choose themselves. Tracee Ellis Ross was labeled bitter for speaking her truth about love. Meghan Markle, still, cannot breathe without critique.
In politics, Kamala Harris, Letitia James, and Jasmine Crockett are dragged through the mud for standing tall in rooms not built for them.
In sports, Angel Reese, Coco Gauff, and Taylor Townsend have been reminded that even excellence will not shield you from racism or judgment.

In business, visionaries like Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye and Melissa Butler are fighting to keep their dreams alive in an economy that too often forgets us first.
Even our icons, Beyoncé, Serena, and SZA, have faced criticism simply for evolving beyond the boxes society tried to keep them in.
From everyday women to cultural phenoms, the pattern is the same. Our light is being tested.

And yet, somehow, through it all, we are still showing up as that girl, and that deserves to be celebrated.
Because while the world debates our worth, we keep raising our value. And that proof is all around us.
This year alone, Naomi Osaka returned from motherhood and mental health challenges to reach the semifinals of the US Open. A’ja Wilson claimed another MVP, reminding us that beauty and dominance can coexist. Brandy and Monica are snatching our edges on tour. Kahlana Barfield Brown sold out her new line in the face of a retailer that had been canceled. And Melissa Butler’s company, The Lip Bar, is projecting a forty percent surge in sales.

We are no longer defining strength by how much pain we can endure. We are defining it by the unbreakable light we continue to radiate.
We are the women walking our daily steps and also continuing to run solid businesses. We are growing in love, taking solo trips, laughing until it hurts, raising babies and ideas, drinking our green juice, and praying our peace back into existence.
We are rediscovering the joy of rest and realizing that softness is not weakness, it is strategy.
And through it all, we continue to lift one another. Emma Grede is creating seats at the table. Valeisha Butterfield has started a fund for jobless Black women. Arian Simone is leading in media with fearless conviction. We are pouring into each other in ways the world rarely sees but always feels.

So yes, we are in the midst of societal warfare. Yes, we are being tested. Yes, we are facing economic strain, political targeting, and public scrutiny. But even war cannot dim a light that is divinely ours.
And we are still shining.
And we are still softening.
And we are still creating.
And we are still It.

That is the quiet magic of Black womanhood, our ability to hold both truth and triumph in the same breath, to say yes, and to life’s contradictions.
It is no coincidence that this year, as SheaMoisture embraces the message “Yes, And,” they stand beside us as partners in celebrating this class of It Girls. Because that phrase, those two simple words, capture the very essence of this moment.
Yes, we are tired. And we are still rising.
Yes, we are questioned. And we are the answer.
Yes, we are bruised. And we are still beautiful.

This year’s It Girl 100 is more than a list. It is a love letter to every Black woman who dares to live out loud in a world that would rather she whisper. This year’s class is living proof of “Yes, And,” women who are finding ways to thrive and to heal, to build and to rest, to lead and to love, all at once.
It is proof that our joy is not naive, our success not accidental. It is the reminder that our light has never needed permission.
So without further ado, we celebrate the It Girl 100 Class of 2025–2026.
We celebrate the millions of us who keep doing it with grace, grit, and glory.
Because despite it all, we still shine.
Because we are still her.
Because we are still IT, girl.
Meet all 100 women shaping culture in the It Girl 100 Class of 2025. View the complete list of honorees here.
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These Black Women Left Their Jobs To Turn Their Wildest Dreams Into Reality
“I’m too big for a f***ing cubicle!” Those thoughts motivated Randi O to kiss her 9 to 5 goodbye and step into her dreams of becoming a full-time social media entrepreneur. She now owns Randi O P&R. Gabrielle, the founder of Raw Honey, was moving from state to state for her corporate job, and every time she packed her suitcases for a new zip code, she regretted the loss of community and the distance in her friendships. So she created a safe haven and village for queer Black people in New York.
Then there were those who gave up their zip code altogether and found a permanent home in the skies. After years spent recruiting students for a university, Lisa-Gaye Shakespeare became a full-time travel influencer and founded her travel company, Shakespeare Agency. And she's not alone.
These stories mirror the experiences of women across the world. For millions, the pandemic induced a seismic shift in priorities and desires. Corporate careers that were once hailed as the ultimate “I made it” moment in one's career were pushed to the back burner as women quit their jobs in search of a more self-fulfilling purpose.
xoNecole spoke to these three Black women who used the pandemic as a springboard to make their wildest dreams a reality, the lessons they learned, and posed the question of whether they’ll ever return to cubicle life.
Answers have been edited for context and length.
xoNecole: How did the pandemic lead to you leaving the cubicle?
Randi: I was becoming stagnant. I was working in mortgage and banking but I felt like my personality was too big for that job! From there, I transitioned to radio but was laid off during the pandemic. That’s what made me go full throttle with entrepreneurship.
Gabrielle: I moved around a lot for work. Five times over a span of seven years. I knew I needed a break because I had experienced so much. So, I just quit one day. Effective immediately. I didn’t know what I was going to do, I just knew I needed a break and to just regroup.
Lisa-Gaye: I was working in recruiting at a university and my dream job just kind of fell into my lap! But, I never got to fully enjoy it before the world shut down in March [2020] and I was laid off. On top of that, I was stuck in Miami because Jamaica had closed its borders due to the pandemic before I was able to return.

Randi O
xoN: Tell us about your journey after leaving Corporate America.
Randi: I do it all now! I have a podcast, I’m an on-air talent, I act, and I own a public relations company that focuses on social media engagement. It’s all from my network. When you go out and start a business, you can’t just say, “Okay I’m done with Corporate America,” and “Let me do my own thing.” If you don’t build community, if you don’t build a network it's going to be very hard to sustain.
Gabrielle: I realized in New York, there was not a lot to do for Black lesbians and queer folks. We don’t really have dedicated bars and spaces so I started doing events and it took off. I started focusing on my brand, Raw Honey. I opened a co-working space, and I was able to host an NYC Pride event in front of 100,000 people. I hit the ground running with Raw Honey. My events were all women coming to find community and come together with other lesbians and queer folks. I found my purpose in that.
Lisa-Gaye: After being laid off, I wrote out all of my passions and that’s how I came up with [my company] Shakespeare Agency. It was all of the things that I loved to do under one umbrella. The pandemic pulled that out of me. I had a very large social media following, so I pitched to hotels that I would feature them on my blog and social media. This reignited my passion for travel. I took the rest of the year to refocus my brand to focus solely on being a content creator within the travel space.

Gabrielle
xoN: What have you learned about yourself during your time as an entrepreneur?
Randi: [I learned] the importance of my network and community that I created. When I was laid off I was still keeping those relationships with people that I used to work with. So it was easy for me to transition into social media management and I didn’t have to start from scratch.
Gabrielle: The biggest thing I learned about myself was my own personal identity as a Black lesbian and how much I had assimilated into straight and corporate culture and not being myself. Now, I feel comfortable and confident being my authentic self. Now, I'm not sacrificing anything else for my career. I have a full life. I have friends. I have a social life. And when you are happy and have a full quality of life, I feel like [I] can have more longevity in my career.
Lisa-Gaye: [I'm doing] the best that I've ever done. The discipline that I’m building within myself. Nobody is saying, ‘Oh you have to be at work at this time.’ There’s no boss saying, ‘Why are you late?’ But, if I’m laying in bed at 10 a.m. then it's me saying [to myself], 'Okay, Lisa, get up, it's time for you to start working!’ That’s all on me.
xoNecole: What mistakes do you want to help people avoid when leaving Corporate America?
Randi: You have to learn about the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. You have a fast season and a slow season and I started to learn that when you're self-employed the latter season hits hard. Don't get caught up on the lows, just keep going and don't stop. I’m glad I did.
Gabrielle: I think everyone should quit their job and just figure it out for a second. You will discover so much about yourself when you take a second to just focus on you. Your skill set will always be there. You can’t be afraid of what will happen when you bet on yourself.
Lisa-Gaye: When it comes to being an influencer the field is saturated and a lot of people suffer from imposter syndrome. There is nothing wrong with being an imposter but find out how to make it yours, how to make it better. If you go to the store, you see 10 million different brands of bread! But you are choosing the brand that you like because you like that particular flavor.
So be an imposter, but be the best imposter of yourself and add your own flair, your own flavor. Make the better bread. The bread that you want.

Lisa-Gaye Shakespeare
xoNecole: Will you ever return to your 9 to 5?
Randi: I wouldn’t go back to Corporate America. But I don’t mind working under someone. A lot of people try to get into this business saying, “I can't work under anyone.” That’s not necessarily the reason to start a business because you're always going to answer to somebody. Clients, brands, there’s always someone else involved.
Gabrielle: I went back! I really needed a break and I gave myself that. But, I realized I’m a corporate girl, [and] I enjoy the work that I do. I’m good at it and I really missed that side of myself. I have different sides of me and my whole identity is not Raw Honey or my queerness. A big side of me is business and that’s why I love having my career. Now I feel like my best self.
Lisa-Gaye: I really don’t. For right now, I love working for myself. It's gratifying, it's challenging, it's exciting. It’s a big deal for me to say I own my own business. That I am my own boss, and I'm a Black woman doing it.
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Originally published on February 6, 2023









