November 22 – December 21

Sagittarius · The Archer

Element
fire
Modality
mutable
Ruling Planet
Jupiter

Sagittarius is the zodiac's mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter and traditionally associated with exploration, optimism, higher learning, and a broad, freedom-seeking outlook.

Core Traits

Sagittarius decans

Sagittarius spans 30 degrees, and astrologers traditionally divide every sign into three 10-degree decans. It is where the “November Sagittarius” versus “December Sagittarius” distinction comes from. The dates below are approximate: the sun does not move at a perfectly even rate, so a cusp can shift by a day either way from year to year.

  1. FirstNovember 22 – December 1
  2. SecondDecember 2 – December 11
  3. ThirdDecember 12 – December 21

The Sagittarius man and woman

The Sagittarius manThe Sagittarius man operates at a scale most people find either exhilarating or exhausting. Mutable fire, ruled by Jupiter: the combination produces someone whose natural setting is expansion. He books the flight before he's finished the thought. He reads three books at once and summarises all of them at dinner, loudly. In conversation, he's the one who pivots from the specific topic to the Big Idea it represents, and he genuinely cannot tell you why that's sometimes irritating. He is not subtle about what he thinks. Ask him for feedback on your work and you'll get a verdict, not a hedge. That bluntness is delivered without malice, which doesn't always soften the landing. Commitment is a genuine sticking point, less because he's selfish and more because he experiences obligation as friction against motion. Give him a long horizon and a real problem to solve, and he's surprisingly reliable. Cage him in and watch the quality of everything drop.The Sagittarius womanThe Sagittarius woman is harder to misread than people expect, because she tells you exactly who she is almost immediately. She's philosophical in a practical way, less interested in abstract theory than in what a belief system actually demands of you when tested. She'll argue this point cheerfully for hours. The fire here isn't the Leo roar or the Aries charge; it's the arrow already in the air, already aimed at something specific. Jupiter's influence means her optimism is structural, not performed. When things go wrong she recalibrates rather than collapses. She's also mutable enough to change her position entirely once new evidence arrives, which some people find refreshing and others find maddening, depending on whether they were counting on her original take. She can be blunt to the point of social chaos, and she's usually aware of this, vaguely, in the way someone is aware of a bad habit they've decided not to fix.

Sagittarius in detail

Sagittarius compatibilityHow Sagittarius reads against each of the other eleven signs by element and modality — including where the tradition declines to say anything.Planets in SagittariusSun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune in Sagittarius, read from sources you can open for free. Your Sun sign is one placement of ten.

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