A Sagittarius at the entrance of the eleventh sector would open a cosmopolitan, enthusiastic circle, carried by shared ideals.
Your friends are fellow travelers: you share with them a vision, a journey, a faith in the future.
Inspiring trust in a group and leading it toward a generous, ambitious goal.
Committing to the group beyond your strength, or preaching your convictions to friends who asked for nothing.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A friend met at a youth hostel in Lisbon, another known from a philosophy seminar, an international exchange association: this circle, according to the manuals, resembles a map of the world.
Sagittarius looks for friends who have ideas, a faith, a horizon. You enjoy introducing people from different cultures and setting up projects that have meaning: town twinning, a solidarity expedition, a community university. Your hopes are vast, sometimes excessive, and carried by a contagious confidence. You readily believe the group can change things.
Jupiter rules this Sagittarius, and it is precisely in the eleventh house that Hellenistic tradition gives it its joy: the planet of benefits governs here the place where it rejoices. Lodged itself in the 11th house, it would combine rulership of the place with the joy it finds there. Elsewhere, its position extends the domain: in the 9th house, friendships of travel or study; in the 2nd, financial support; in the 6th, colleagues who become friends. Exalted in Cancer, it would warm the circle; in Capricorn, its fall, it would make it cautious.
Excess would be the main flaw: too many projects, too many promises, unintended sermons. The 5th house in Gemini, opposite, invites lightness and play. Keeping one modest promise would be worth more than announcing ten grand ones.
Feeling would readily begin far away: on a train platform in Vienna, during a university exchange, at a festival.
You like to share an ideal, a cause, plans to leave with your loved one. You feel stifled in a couple that cuts you off from friends. The 5th house in Gemini would give you a playful charm, made of brilliant conversations and winks, lighter than your grand surges of idealism.
This placement would flourish in international organizations, publishing, teaching, humanitarian work, tourism, or educational projects.
Support would come from mentors, professors, and generous foreigners. You motivate a team by telling the vision that carries you. You do need, however, partners able to run the numbers, or projects overshoot their budget. A tracking sheet kept by a more methodical colleague would be your best ally in steering committees.
A hiking group, a debate night, a dinner where six languages are spoken: social life has breadth.
You suggest group trips and trade postcards with loved ones settled in Montreal, Dakar, or Seoul. You get irritated by closed or narrow circles, by evenings where people only talk about the weather. Listening before convincing would make your conversations even richer, and would leave quieter friends time to tell their own discoveries.
For the Hellenistic astrologers, Jupiter ruling the Good Spirit would be the most favorable configuration of this house: the great benefic would govern its own place of joy.
Lilly would read there numerous and honorable friends, people of the Church, of law, or of learning, and hopes fulfilled, provided Jupiter is neither retrograde nor afflicted. Valens, for his part, already associated the Good Spirit with friendships and benefits received: a Jupiterian lord would reinforce its promise.
The moderns would speak of an idealistic sociability, which needs a shared vision. The Sagittarius–Gemini axis would link the great conviction shared in a group to the playful curiosity of personal pleasures; one gives the heading, the other the flexibility. The risk, for these authors, would be taking the circle’s enthusiasm for a guarantee of success.
The sign on the cusp of the 11th house depends on the time and place of birth; its ruler becomes the ruler of the house, and where it sits in the chart extends the house.
succedent house: friendships, collective projects, hopes.
The 11th houseA fire sign, mutable.
The Sagittarius signJupiter rules Sagittarius: its place in the chart extends the 11th house.
Jupiter in the 11th houseIt would evoke a circle of friends open to the world, idealistic projects, and great trust in the collective. You connect people from all backgrounds. Your possible excess: promising too much and preaching. The 5th house in Gemini, its counterpart, brings to personal pleasures lightness and play, as a welcome counterweight.
Jupiter, which is doubly in its place here: lord of Sagittarius and planet of joy of the eleventh house for the Greeks. Its full tour of the sky takes about twelve years, roughly a year per sign. Its natal house shows where friendships carry on; in Capricorn, its fall, it would make them more sober.
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