A royal generosity: a striking presence, enthusiasm, and ideals, with a taste for grand gestures.
The Sun wears the crown, Jupiter holds the scepter: a royal generosity, turned toward the joy of creating and teaching.
Inspiring confidence and enthusiasm in a whole group, by example and warmth.
Thinking too big, spending without counting, and taking the slightest criticism as an offense.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
Leo and Sagittarius share fire and answer each other in trine, an accord reputed to flow.
Leo is fixed, it shines and lasts; Sagittarius is mutable, it explores. Helios in the east, Zeus at the core: warmth and largesse, scepter and tablets of the law. Their warmth is plain to see: a round of drinks on them, a waiter complimented, an anecdote told in which they do not always get the best part.
The Sun lodges in the 5th house, that of creation, children, pleasures, and love affairs. This combination loves the stage, parties, games, art in all its forms. It may put together a theater troupe, write an adventure novel, organize school trips, raise its children by opening the world to them. Their joy in living is contagious, and their friends know they will show up to celebrate every victory.
The double fire does lead to excess, however. Leo wants to shine, Sagittarius sees big: the person may spend beyond their means, promise a sumptuous reception, commit to an outsized project. Their pride bears contradiction poorly. The Water-Bearer, in the west, would advocate stepping back; its representatives, independent, refuse to be dazzled. Their friends learn to love this excess, and to temper it.
Sumptuous surprises, romantic getaways, ardent declarations in front of friends: this combination loves on a grand scale.
It needs a partner who shares its enthusiasm and reflects back a little admiration. Placed in the west, the Water-Bearer would bring them across free, original, somewhat distant minds. Their detachment surprises them; respecting their need for space would make the relationship more equal, more lasting, and ultimately more exciting.
Performance, teaching, publishing, tourism, entertainment, team leadership, starting a business: the combination shines wherever people must be inspired and led.
A sense of the audience and of big visions comes naturally. The solar 5th house would add a creative streak and a taste for passing things on to younger people. The trap would be counting on charisma to cover the gaps in a poorly prepared file.
A big table, exotic souvenirs, warm colors, music always on: the home looks like a party venue.
The person likes to entertain, go out, play cards, travel with a group of friends. Spending climbs fast, between restaurants and plane tickets. Setting a monthly ceiling for pleasures, while allowing a few owned follies, would preserve their future freedom without dimming their joy in living.
Helios, master of the Leo horizon, would travel under the Centaur without title, but within his own fiery family, whose guardianship by day Dorotheus entrusted to him.
The king of Olympus rules the birth sign. The authors readily brought these two stars together, kingship and justice, light and law: an alliance they judged noble. Helios and Zeus also shared, in some authors, the guardianship of the fire triplicity.
Around eleven at night, in the dead of winter, Leo crosses the horizon. The Archer then falls in the 5th house, dear to Aphrodite: offspring, feasts, gifts, works. The Centaur would find there a place favorable to play and creation.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Leo takes about 2 hr 45 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Sagittarius, the rising sign is Leo for a birth during that rise.
A fire sign, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
The Sagittarius signA fire sign, fixed; descendant in Aquarius.
Leo risingThe Sun rules Leo: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of the Sun| Sun in Sagittarius | Leo rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| November 24Start of the sign | 9:04 PM to 11:49 PM | 2 hr 45 min |
| December 7Middle of the sign | 8:13 PM to 10:58 PM | 2 hr 45 min |
| December 19End of the sign | 7:26 PM to 10:11 PM | 2 hr 45 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
Very. The Sun in the east and Jupiter at the core, two stars associated with largesse, make a lavish, warm person. Pleasing others, sharing their joy, buying the round: all of it comes without effort. A possible downside: excess, in spending as in promises, and a pride that takes criticism badly.
A rising Leo places the Centaur in the 5th house, that of works, children, and games. Identity would then flourish in art, joyful transmission, the successful party. Creating, playing, and teaching would give them the feeling of being fully alive, far more than a title or a salary.
The same fire, two ways of carrying it. Leo Sun with Sagittarius rising hides a royal pride under the look of a jovial traveler. Sagittarius Sun with Leo rising shows Leo’s majesty first, then reveals a philosophical, nomadic core, which does not stay put for long. The first reigns, the second explores.