Decan 1 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler: Jupiter
Double Jupiter — the most expansive, optimistic and excessive.
2026: Nov 22 – Dec 2 · Chaldean order: Mercury
November 22 – December 21 · Fire · Mutable · ruled by Jupiter
Sagittarius
Sagittarius covers November 22 – December 21 and is the 9th sign of the zodiac: fire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter. Its keynote is expansion, honesty and appetite for the unfamiliar. In 2026 the Sun spends 29.56 days in it — the 2nd shortest of the twelve, because the signs are not equal in length.
- Sun enters 2026
- Nov 22 7:23 AM UTC
- Sun leaves
- Dec 21 8:50 PM UTC
- Season length
- 29.6 days 29 d 13 h 27 min
- US births
- 7.95% 10th most common of 12
Times: NASA JPL DE440. Births: US Social Security Administration, 2000–2014.
The Sagittarius man The Sagittarius woman
Exact times
Sagittarius season 2026: the exact start in your city
The Sun enters Sagittarius at 7:23 AM UTC on November 22, 2026 — 4:23 AM in Santiago, 2:23 AM in New York, 7:23 AM in London and 4:23 PM in Tokyo — and leaves it for Capricorn at 8:50 PM UTC on December 21, after 29 d 13 h 27 min.
| City | Sun enters Sagittarius | Sun moves on to Capricorn |
|---|---|---|
| UTC | Sun, Nov 22 | Mon, Dec 21 |
| Honolulu United States | 9:23 PM Sat, Nov 21 · UTC−10 | 10:50 AM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−10 |
| Anchorage United States | 10:23 PM Sat, Nov 21 · UTC−9 | 11:50 AM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−9 |
| Los Angeles United States | 11:23 PM Sat, Nov 21 · UTC−8 | 12:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−8 |
| Phoenix United States | 12:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−7 | 1:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−7 |
| Denver United States | 12:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−7 | 1:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−7 |
| Chicago United States | 1:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−6 | 2:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−6 |
| Mexico City Mexico | 1:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−6 | 2:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−6 |
| New York United States | 2:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−5 | 3:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−5 |
| Toronto Canada | 2:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−5 | 3:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−5 |
| Bogotá Colombia | 2:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−5 | 3:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−5 |
| Lima Peru | 2:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−5 | 3:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−5 |
| Caracas Venezuela | 3:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−4 | 4:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−4 |
| Santiago Chile | 4:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−3 | 5:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−3 |
| Buenos Aires Argentina | 4:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−3 | 5:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−3 |
| São Paulo Brazil | 4:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC−3 | 5:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC−3 |
| Reykjavík Iceland | 7:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC | 8:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC |
| London United Kingdom | 7:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC | 8:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC |
| Lagos Nigeria | 8:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+1 | 9:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+1 |
| Paris France | 8:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+1 | 9:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+1 |
| Berlin Germany | 8:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+1 | 9:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+1 |
| Johannesburg South Africa | 9:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+2 | 10:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+2 |
| Cairo Egypt | 9:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+2 | 10:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+2 |
| Athens Greece | 9:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+2 | 10:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+2 |
| Istanbul Turkey | 10:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+3 | 11:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+3 |
| Moscow Russia | 10:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+3 | 11:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+3 |
| Nairobi Kenya | 10:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+3 | 11:50 PM Mon, Dec 21 · UTC+3 |
| Tehran Iran | 10:53 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+3:30 | 12:20 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+3:30 |
| Dubai United Arab Emirates | 11:23 AM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+4 | 12:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+4 |
| Karachi Pakistan | 12:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+5 | 1:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+5 |
| New Delhi India | 12:53 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+5:30 | 2:20 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+5:30 |
| Kathmandu Nepal | 1:08 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+5:45 | 2:35 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+5:45 |
| Dhaka Bangladesh | 1:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+6 | 2:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+6 |
| Bangkok Thailand | 2:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+7 | 3:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+7 |
| Jakarta Indonesia | 2:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+7 | 3:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+7 |
| Singapore | 3:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+8 | 4:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+8 |
| Beijing China | 3:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+8 | 4:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+8 |
| Manila Philippines | 3:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+8 | 4:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+8 |
| Perth Australia | 3:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+8 | 4:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+8 |
| Seoul South Korea | 4:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+9 | 5:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+9 |
| Tokyo Japan | 4:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+9 | 5:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+9 |
| Adelaide Australia | 5:53 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+10:30 | 7:20 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+10:30 |
| Brisbane Australia | 5:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+10 | 6:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+10 |
| Sydney Australia | 6:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+11 | 7:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+11 |
| Auckland New Zealand | 8:23 PM Sun, Nov 22 · UTC+13 | 9:50 AM Tue, Dec 22 · UTC+13 |
Sun’s ingress from the NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris; Swiss Ephemeris agrees within 5 seconds. Local times: IANA time zones, to the minute.
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DatesNovember 22 – December 21
SymbolArcher
ElementFire
ModalityMutable
Ruling planetJupiter
House9
PolarityPositive
Lucky numbers3, 9
Lucky dayThursday
ColorPurple
BirthstoneTurquoise, topaz
Best matches
Aries, Leo, Libra
Hardest matches
Capricorn, Taurus, Cancer
Rules the bodyHips, thighs and liver
Calculated, not approximated
Exact Sagittarius dates for 2026
Sun enters Sagittarius
November 22, 7:23 AM UTC
Sun leaves Sagittarius
December 21, 8:50 PM UTC
Length this year
29.6 days
The usual "November 22 – December 21" is an average. The Sun enters Sagittarius at 240° of ecliptic longitude, and the exact minute of that crossing — given above for the coming season — moves a little every year, which is what a boundary birthday needs.
Sagittarius season started as late as Nov 23, 11:21 AM UTC in 1903 and will start as early as Nov 21, 3:34 PM UTC in 2048; in 2026 it is Nov 22, 7:23 AM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 50 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 12 min, so it saw-tooths between November 21 and 23. The season itself has run from 29 d 12 h 53 min to 29 d 13 h 32 min — a spread of 39 minutes over 151 years.
Calculated from the Sun's actual motion
The zodiac signs are not equal
Sagittarius lasts
29.56 days
Rank by length
11 of 12
Share of all births
7.95%
If signs were even
30.44 days · 8.33%
Sagittarius runs 29.56 days in 2026 — one of the short signs the Sun crosses in the months around perihelion, when Earth moves fastest. Only just longer is Aquarius at 29.59 days; just behind is Capricorn at 29.44.
With US births also peaking between July and September, Sagittarius took 7.95% of them in 2000–2014. All twelve lengths, and why they differ, are on the zodiac dates page.
Sagittarius: 7.95% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 10th most common of twelve. Leo leads with 8.96% and Capricorn trails with 7.63%. An even split would give 8.33%.
Rarely covered
The three Sagittarius decans
Ten degrees each. Modern astrologers give them to the three fire signs' rulers — Jupiter, Mars and the Sun; the older Chaldean order, used on our birth date pages, gives Mercury, the Moon and Saturn.
Decan 2 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler: Mars
Sharper and more competitive. Drive with a target.
2026: Dec 2 – Dec 12 · Chaldean order: Moon
Decan 3 · 20°–30°
Sub-ruler: Sun
Warm and idealistic. The teacher of the three.
2026: Dec 12 – Dec 21 · Chaldean order: Saturn
Sagittarius personality
Optimistic
Tactless
Adventurous
Restless
Philosophical
Strengths
Genuinely open-minded and hard to discourage. Says the thing nobody else will.
Weaknesses
Says it without checking whether it needed saying, and leaves before the consequences land.
Sagittarius is the one mutable fire sign — and that pairing is the whole explanation. The element sets temperament: fire signs act first and consider afterward. The modality decides what happens when circumstances change: mutable signs adapt to it.
No other sign is mutable fire, so Sagittarius cannot stand in for the other fire signs — which share the temperament and divide the work between them differently.
Primary source
Why Jupiter rules Sagittarius, in Ptolemy’s words
“Jupiter has a favourable temperament, and is situated beneath the sphere of Saturn; he therefore occupies the next two signs, Sagittarius and Pisces. These signs are airy and fruitful, in consequence of their trinal distance from the houses of the luminaries, which distance harmonizes with the operation of good.”
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822) — read the original text.
Ptolemy wrote in Alexandria, and his reasoning is from the northern hemisphere, where Cancer and Leo are the summer signs. He knew seven planets, and this scheme of rulers is still the one astrologers use.
Primary source
What William Lilly wrote about Sagittarius in 1647
“[Sagittarius] is of the fiery triplicity, East, in nature fiery, hot, dry, Masculine, Cholericke, Diurnall, Common, bycorporall or double bodied, the House and joy of [Jupiter].”
“It represents a wel-favoured Countenance, somewhat long Visage, but full and ruddy, or almost like Sun-burnt; the Haire light Chesnut colour, the Stature somewhat above the middle Size; a conformity in the Members, and a strong able body.”
William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI — read the original text.
Christian Astrology was the first astrology textbook of its kind printed in English rather than Latin. Lilly used these descriptions mainly for the sign rising at a birth or at the moment a question was asked; reading character from the Sun’s sign alone was popularized by newspaper horoscopes in the 1930s. Spelling and punctuation are as printed, with the long s and u/v modernized; signs and planets printed as symbols are given in square brackets.
The Sagittarius man and woman
Sagittarius man
Blunt, restless and genuinely open-minded. Says the thing, then leaves.
Sagittarius woman
Independent and adventurous. Reads possessiveness as a threat rather than devotion.
Astrology gives Sagittarius no gendered meaning; the two sketches follow how the sign is usually written about.
Sagittarius in each area of life
In love and relationships
Needs room and honesty. Reads possessiveness as a threat rather than devotion.
As a friend
Great company, hard to pin down. Turns a coffee into a three-day trip.
At work
Good with big-picture strategy, teaching and anything international. Bored by detail.
Career that suits
Travel, teaching, publishing, law, anything international or philosophical.
With money
Optimistic and loose with it. Gambling instinct, in the broad sense.
As a child
Energetic, curious and needs space. Confinement produces rebellion quickly.
As a parent
Fun, honest and encouraging of independence. Weak on routine.
Health and the body
Hips, thighs and liver — Sagittarius rules them, and overindulgence is the traditional risk.
Sagittarius compatibility with every sign
Ranked by the angle from Sagittarius on the wheel; how the angle is read is explained on the compatibility hub.
| With | Aspect | Angle | Score | Element |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Trine | 120° | 88% | Fire |
| Leo | Trine | 120° | 88% | Fire |
| Libra | Sextile | 60° | 82% | Air |
| Aquarius | Sextile | 60° | 82% | Air |
| Sagittarius | Conjunction | 0° | 78% | Fire |
| Gemini | Opposition | 180° | 75% | Air |
| Virgo | Square | 90° | 62% | Earth |
| Pisces | Square | 90° | 62% | Water |
| Scorpio | Semi-sextile | 30° | 58% | Water |
| Capricorn | Semi-sextile | 30° | 58% | Earth |
| Taurus | Quincunx | 150° | 55% | Earth |
| Cancer | Quincunx | 150° | 55% | Water |
Famous Sagittarians
Taylor Swift, Brad Pitt, Jane Austen, Winston Churchill
Sagittarius accounts for 7.95% of US births, so a list of famous Sagittarians is trivia rather than evidence.
Common questions about Sagittarius
What are the exact Sagittarius dates?
November 22 – December 21 as usually published. In 2026 the Sun enters Sagittarius on November 22 at 7:23 AM UTC and leaves on December 21 at 8:50 PM UTC.
Who is Sagittarius most compatible with?
By aspect, Aries, Leo and Libra — they sit at the easiest angles from Sagittarius.
What is a Sagittarius decan?
A ten-degree third of the sign with its own sub-ruler: Jupiter, Mars and the Sun in the modern scheme, Mercury, the Moon and Saturn in the older Chaldean order.
What body part does Sagittarius rule?
Hips, thighs and liver — Sagittarius rules them, and overindulgence is the traditional risk.
Is the Sagittarius man different from the woman?
Not in the chart: the Sun in Sagittarius works the same for everyone. The difference is in how it is written about — the Sagittarius man is usually read through Mars, which spends 7.9% of days in Sagittarius, and the Sagittarius woman through Venus, at 7.4%.
Sources
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822)
- William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI
Statements of fact on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. How we choose and check sources: editorial policy.
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