Sagittarius zodiac sign: dates, traits, love and career

Sagittarius closes the northern autumn and is the mutable fire sign. People born under Sagittarius are often cheerful, frank and adventurous, keen to see what lies past the next horizon.

Sagittarius at a glance

The dates follow the Western (tropical) zodiac. The Sun changes sign at a different hour each year, so if you were born around 22 November or 21 December, the exact sign depends on your birth year, time and place.

Sagittarius traits and nature

In short: Sagittarius people are usually optimistic, honest and keen on freedom and learning. Details and promises need extra attention.

Sagittarius people usually love travel, big ideas and learning for its own sake. They speak their mind, laugh easily and are generous with their time and their opinions.

They need room to move. Tight rules and routine make them restless, and they may promise more than fits in a week. With a clear aim, like the archer's arrow, their energy goes far.

Strengths

• Optimism
• Honesty
• Love of learning
• Sense of humour
• Open to people and cultures

Things to watch

• Bluntness that hurts
• Overpromising
• Restlessness
• Skipping the details

Element, modality and ruling planet

Sagittarius is a fire sign. Fire signs are commonly linked with drive, warmth and enthusiasm. The other fire signs are Aries and Leo.

It is a mutable sign. Mutable signs close each season and are said to adapt and pass things on. The other mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo and Pisces.

Its ruling planet is Jupiter, on which traditional and modern Western astrology agree. Its opposite sign is Gemini, often read as its complement.

Sagittarius in love and compatibility

In love Sagittarius is often fun, warm and honest, and wants a partner who is also a travel companion and friend. Freedom inside the relationship matters to them. Jealousy or tight control pushes them away.

The table reads the match with all 12 signs by a common rule: the same element and complementary elements (fire with air, earth with water) read as easy, signs a square apart as tense, and signs that share nothing as mixed.

This is a general guide from the sun signs alone. How two people get on shows in their full birth charts; in India, marriage matching uses the Moon sign and nakshatra in Kundli milan. Kundli matching by date of birth · Love calculator

Sagittarius career themes

Fields commonly linked with Sagittarius: Higher education, Travel and tourism, Publishing, Law, Sport and outdoor work, Spiritual and philosophical study.

These are tendencies of the sun sign as commonly described, not predictions. Your rising sign, Moon and the other planets shape each person far more than the sun sign alone.

Western Sagittarius and the Vedic sign

Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, tied to the seasons: Aries always begins at the March equinox. Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, tied to the stars, which now sits about 24° behind (the Lahiri ayanamsa). That is why most people’s Vedic sun sign is the sign before their Western one.

In 2026 the Sun enters sidereal Dhanu rashi on 16 December. So of the people born 22 November to 21 December, those born 22 November to 15 December have the Sun in Vrishchika (Scorpio) in Vedic astrology, and those born 16 December to 21 December have it in Dhanu. These are the Sankranti dates.

Your Indian rashi (janma rashi) is a third thing: the sign the Moon was in at your birth. The Moon changes sign about every two and a quarter days, so it needs your date, time and place of birth: use the rashi calculator.

More on this site

• Sagittarius horoscope: today, weekly, monthly and yearly
• Zodiac sign calculator: by date of birth, with cusp days flagged
• Rashi calculator: your Vedic Moon sign
• Dhanu rashi (the Vedic Sagittarius)
• Sagittarius tarot card

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