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Sagittarius personality, love and compatibility The sign that goes further.

Sagittarius is the ninth sign of the zodiac, a mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter. It usually runs from 22 November to 21 December. By the zodiac's geometry, its easiest matches are Aries and Leo, and its hardest are Virgo and Pisces.

Sagittarius people chase meaning, travel and good stories, and they say what they think. They are the zodiac's optimists and its most honest sign, sometimes to a fault.

Dates
22 November to 21 December
Element
Fire
Mode
Mutable
Ruler
Jupiter
Symbol
The Archer
Opposite
Gemini
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Sagittarius on the zodiac wheelSagittarius sits at the top of the wheel. Trines, the easiest angle, run to Aries and Leo; sextiles to Libra and Aquarius; squares, the friction, to Virgo and Pisces; and the opposite sign is Gemini.ARITAUGEMCANLEOVIRLIBSCOSAGCAPAQUPIS
Sagittarius and the other eleven signs. TrineSextileSquareOpposite

Personality

Sagittarius aims far and says what it sees

Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter, the planet of growth, and its symbol is an archer aiming at something far away. Sagittarians love learning, travel, philosophy and a good argument about the meaning of life. They are generous, funny and restless, and they tend to have lived in more places than their friends.

Their honesty is famous. A Sagittarius tells you the truth because it did not occur to them to soften it, and the tactlessness is rarely meant to hurt. Routine can feel like a wall to them. The Sagittarians who build lasting lives find their freedom inside a commitment: a partner who travels with them, a job with a mission.

CardinalFixedMutable
FireAriesLeoSagittarius
EarthCapricornTaurusVirgo
AirLibraAquariusGemini
WaterCancerScorpioPisces
Sagittarius sits where fire meets mutable. It shares its element with Aries and Leo and its mode with Gemini, Virgo and Pisces.

At their best

Optimistic, honest, adventurous, generous, curious, and able to turn almost any setback into a story.

Under pressure

Restless, tactless and inclined to over-promise, or to leave when things get heavy. A bored Sagittarius books a flight.

What they need

Freedom, meaning, movement, and people who will come on the adventure with them.

Compatibility

How Sagittarius gets on with each of the twelve signs

Sagittarius's easiest matches are Aries and Leo, the other two fire signs, which sit in trine. Libra and Aquarius, a sextile away, come next. Gemini, directly opposite, is the classic pull of opposites. The hardest angles are the squares to Virgo and Pisces.

  1. AriesTrine, 120°Easy flow

    One of the easiest matches Sagittarius has. Both love action and freedom, and neither holds a grudge.

  2. LeoTrine, 120°Easy flow

    Leo warms Sagittarius and Sagittarius makes Leo laugh. Easy and passionate, with generosity on both sides.

  3. LibraSextile, 60°Open door

    Libra's charm and Sagittarius' humour make a sociable, optimistic couple that enjoys people, travel and ideas together.

  4. AquariusSextile, 60°Open door

    Both value freedom and ideas. Aquarius gives Sagittarius the space it needs, and they are friends as much as lovers.

  5. GeminiOpposition, 180°Opposites attract

    Both are curious and restless: Gemini loves the details, Sagittarius the big picture. Lively, talkative and free.

  6. SagittariusSame sign, 0°Mirror

    Two Sagittarians never get bored and rarely stay home. Plenty of adventure, and someone still has to water the plants.

  7. ScorpioSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Scorpio wants depth and exclusivity, Sagittarius wants openness and space. Intriguing, and demanding for both.

  8. CapricornSemi-sextile, 30°Neighbours

    Capricorn brings discipline and Sagittarius brings vision. Each can help the other get somewhere, if they respect the other's pace.

  9. TaurusQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Taurus wants to stay and Sagittarius wants to go. Taurus can ground Sagittarius, and Sagittarius can find Taurus too slow.

  10. CancerQuincunx, 150°Adjustment

    Cancer needs home and closeness, Sagittarius needs the road. Affectionate, and often at odds about how much time to spend apart.

  11. VirgoSquare, 90°Friction

    Virgo wants the plan and Sagittarius wants to improvise. Both are curious, and they disagree about almost every itinerary.

  12. PiscesSquare, 90°Friction

    Jupiter rules both in traditional astrology, and both are idealists. Pisces feels, Sagittarius explores, and the practical side can drift.

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From the book

What the reading says when Sagittarius turns up in a chart

Chapter 2Sun in Sagittarius

You need a horizon.

Rules feel like small rooms, and you leave small rooms. You want the long view, the big idea, the next country, the argument about what it all means. You are honest to the point of tactlessness, funny when you do not mean to be, and impossible to keep in one place for long. People forgive you things they would not forgive anyone else, because you meant no harm and you clearly enjoyed yourself.

The life that fits you is wide, and it is built by someone who still shows up on Tuesdays. Your challenge is not vision, you have plenty. It is the unglamorous middle of the plan, the part between the idea and the arrival. Learn to love that part a little, or find a partner who does, and the horizon stops being somewhere you look and becomes somewhere you live.

Chapter 3Moon in Sagittarius

You need air and a reason to laugh.

Heavy rooms make you restless. When you are sad you move: you travel, you plan, you call the friend who is funny, you change the subject to something larger. Your emotional first aid is perspective, and it works, most of the time. People feel lighter around you because you refuse to let the small thing be the whole thing.

Let one person see you sit still with it. The Sagittarius Moon can outrun a feeling for years and call it optimism. Some things need to be felt in a chair, with the door shut, before the horizon helps.

You will still get to leave. You will just leave lighter.

Chapter 6Venus in Sagittarius

You love freely, honestly, and with your passport nearby.

You fall for people who make you laugh and make the world bigger: the traveller, the teacher, the one with a different accent or a different faith. You are generous, honest to a fault, and allergic to anything that feels like a cage. You love best with room to move and a shared horizon.

The risk is treating every commitment as a possible trap, and leaving good things because they started to feel settled. Settled is not the same as small. The partner who fits you is one you can travel with, in every sense, and who lets you come home.

Printed word for word from the Skyprint reading. A chart with the Sun in Sagittarius gets the first page. The Moon and Venus pages appear only when those planets were in Sagittarius too, and your own chart decides which of the twelve versions you read.
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Love

A Sagittarius in love wants a partner in adventure

Sagittarius falls for people who make life bigger: someone curious, funny, well-travelled, or at least willing to go. They court with enthusiasm and honesty, and they would sooner plan a trip than a candlelit dinner. A Sagittarius who wants to show you a place they love is flirting.

What they cannot bear is feeling fenced in. Jealousy and too many rules send a Sagittarius toward the door. Given trust and room, they are warm, loyal and fun to grow old with, and still planning the next trip at eighty.

Sagittarius dates

Born on 21, 22 or 23 November? The year decides

Horoscopes round the dates. We measured the moment the Sun entered Sagittarius in every year from 1940 to 2030 with Astronomy Engine, the engine behind every Skyprint reading.

The Sun entered Sagittarius on

  • 21 November7 of 91 years
  • 22 November77 of 91 years
  • 23 November7 of 91 years

It moved on into Capricorn on

  • 21 December43 of 91 years
  • 22 December48 of 91 years
Dates are in UTC, so your local calendar date can differ by one. If your birthday is one of these days, your birth time and place settle it: check your exact Sun sign, free.

Your whole sky

Your chart goes further than your Sun sign

The Sun sign comes from your birth date alone. The Moon changes sign every two to three days and the rising sign roughly every two hours, so two people born under Sagittarius a week apart can read very differently. Your birth date, time and place draw the whole sky, computed to the arcminute.

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Questions

Sagittarius questions, answered

When are the Sagittarius dates?

Sagittarius usually runs from 22 November to 21 December. The start moves by a day: between 1940 and 2030 the Sun entered Sagittarius on 21 November in 7 years, 22 November in 77 years and 23 November in 7 years, in UTC. If you were born on one of those days, your birth time and place decide your sign.

Who is Sagittarius most compatible with?

By the geometry of the zodiac, Sagittarius's easiest matches are Aries and Leo, the other fire signs, followed by Libra and Aquarius. Gemini, the opposite sign, brings the strongest pull and the most work, and the squares to Virgo and Pisces are the hardest angles. A real match also depends on the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising sign in both charts.

Why do Sagittarians avoid commitment?

What they avoid is commitment that feels like a cage. Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign that needs growth and movement, and a relationship with freedom and shared adventure in it is one a Sagittarius can keep for life.

Why are Sagittarians so blunt?

Sagittarius values truth over comfort and assumes everyone else does too. The bluntness comes from honesty, and most Sagittarians are quick to apologise once they see they have hurt someone.

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All signs and the compatibility chart. How this page was made: Skyprint is built and edited by Khalil Yazouri. The text was drafted with AI assistance. The sign dates were measured with Astronomy Engine for every year from 1940 to 2030, the compatibility follows the angles between the signs, and the sample pages are printed word for word from the reading's own library.