Fire · Mutable
Sagittarius
November 22 – December 21
Quick facts: Sagittarius is sign 9 of 12 in the tropical zodiac. Dates: November 22 – December 21. Element: Fire. Modality: Mutable. Ruling planet: Jupiter. Symbol: The Archer. Opposite sign: Gemini.
- Dates
- November 22 – December 21
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Mutable
- Symbol
- The Archer
- Ruler
- Jupiter
- Polarity
- Yang
- Opposite
- Gemini
Sagittarius is mutable fire, ruled by Jupiter, roughly November 22 to December 21. Mutable signs change. Fire signs need meaning they can feel. Jupiter expands: belief, travel, study, luck, the appetite for a horizon. The archer is not only a traveler with a suitcase. The centaur of the old image is an animal body with a human aim. Sagittarius wants the life and the philosophy to match.
They are often funny, generous, and impossible to pin to a plan they have outgrown. Honesty is a point of pride, which can be courage and can be a lack of editing. They would rather be interested than comfortable. A small, repetitive life without a question in it will make them rude, restless, or suddenly gone.
Opposite Gemini, Sagittarius is supposed to turn a pile of facts into a direction. The failure mode is the opinion that left the airport before it checked the details, or the quest that is really an escape from an ordinary Tuesday. The gift is perspective. A good Sagittarius makes the room bigger. A careless one makes the room a lecture.
Printed date ranges are the common window. The Sun changes signs at a precise moment. If you were born on the first or last day, use the sign calculator.
Strengths
A wider frame
When a group is stuck in the local panic, Sagittarius can say what the thing is for. Jupiter's talent is context.
Appetite for learning
They will cross a discipline, a border, or a social scene to understand something. That curiosity is not a hobby. It is how they stay honest.
Generosity of spirit
At their best they want other people to have a big life too. The enthusiasm is contagious when it is not a sales pitch.
Where it snags
The exit
When a situation gets detailed, emotional, or repetitive, Sagittarius may reframe leaving as growth. Sometimes it is just leaving.
Bluntness without aim
Truth told with no care for timing is not braver than tact. It is often Jupiter skipping the Gemini work of listening.
Overpromise
The future looks so possible that they commit to three of them. Calendars and budgets then become other people's problem.
Love
Sagittarius wants a partner who is a companion on the way somewhere, not a warden of the way things are. They need room, honesty, and a shared sense that life is still interesting. Clinginess is not the same as love to them, and they can be careless with people who needed a plan more than a vision.
They are capable of deep loyalty when the bond includes freedom they do not have to steal. Jealousy and surveillance will make them bolt or lie, and they should not be proud of either. The adult version says 'I need a trip, a class, a night with my own thoughts' before the resentment builds a suitcase.
Fire signs match the heat. Aries and Leo bring direction and heart. Gemini, the opposite, brings wit and facts. Air signs keep the conversation worthy of them. Earth signs can ground the arrow if Sagittarius does not treat practicality as an insult.
Career
Teaching, publishing, law, travel, religion or philosophy in the broad sense, international work, coaching, anything that sells a bigger picture honestly. Sagittarius is a strong spokesperson and a risky operator of details. Pair them with a Virgo or a Capricorn and the work can actually ship.
They need growth in the job title or they will grow a side quest that eats the job. A plateau is not neutral for Jupiter. It feels like a small life. The career mistake is quitting every time the work becomes administration. Some administration is the price of the horizon they say they want.
Ethics matter here more than they admit. A Sagittarius who bends the truth to keep the story inspiring will eventually meet a fact pattern. Their reputation should be the person who told you the real odds and still made you want to try.
Friendship
Sagittarius is the friend who talks you into the trip and means it, who lends optimism without a receipt, and who may forget the smaller logistics of your actual week. They are wonderful in motion and patchier as a witness to a long, unglamorous problem.
They need friends who can enjoy a debate and who will haul them back if the debate becomes a speech. Loyalty, for them, includes telling you the truth you are avoiding. Receive it when it is fair, and tell them when the truth was just impatience.
Health, as tradition and as a habit
Tradition gives Sagittarius the hips, the thighs, and the liver, and a temperament that overdoes a good thing. Symbol, not a lab result. The pattern is excess in the name of being alive: too much travel, wine, certainty, or exercise pursued like a belief system. The body is supposed to come on the quest. It often gets informed later.
They need movement that is adventurous enough to hold their attention and rest they do not classify as failure. A philosophy that cannot include a sore hip is not a philosophy yet. If optimism is how they avoid a checkup, the optimism is doing a different job. See a clinician for the body. Use the sign as a question, not an answer.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. See the disclaimer.
People born with the Sun here
Taylor Swift
1989-12-13 · Musician, born December 13, 1989.
Brad Pitt
1963-12-18 · Actor, born December 18, 1963.
Steven Spielberg
1946-12-18 · Filmmaker, born December 18, 1946.
Britney Spears
1981-12-02 · Singer, born December 2, 1981.
Nicki Minaj
1982-12-08 · Rapper, born December 8, 1982.
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Questions people ask
What are Sagittarius dates?
About November 22 to December 21. Sagittarius is mutable fire, ruled by Jupiter. Cusp birthdays should be verified with an ephemeris.
What is the Sagittarius symbol?
The archer, traditionally a centaur drawing a bow. It points at aim, belief, and a life pointed past the immediate neighborhood.
Are Sagittarius and Gemini compatible?
They are opposites: facts and meaning, the street and the map. The match is lively when both people like learning, and brittle when one lectures and the other dodges.