Freedom on the move: frankness, optimism, a thirst for horizons, and a tendency toward excess.
The Sun rises in the Centaur: an arrow shot toward the horizon, always looking farther for truth and joy.
Giving others a taste for adventure and discovery, through a joyful faith in the future.
Invoking freedom to dodge every concrete commitment, even a wanted one.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
At the December dawn, the Archer and the Sun cross the horizon together: mobile, masculine fire, under the sole authority of Zeus.
Tradition saw in this a frank, generous character, in love with justice and wide open spaces. Warm, open, a little loud, the person tells of their latest journey, announces the next, and invites you along as a matter of course. The conversation quickly turns to plans.
This temperament works wonders when doors need opening. The person knows how to encourage a friend who doubts, set up a humanitarian project, teach with passion, learn a language in three months in order to leave and live elsewhere. They believe in the meaning of things and look for it everywhere: in religions, philosophies, encounters, books. Their frankness is legendary, and so is their generosity. Their students, friends, and colleagues remember their enthusiasm for a long time.
The flip side is well known: excess and flight. With no other sign to temper it, the person promises too much, leaves too fast, grows bored as soon as routine sets in. They may preach their convictions to those who ask nothing, or hurt with a clumsy frankness. Gemini, in the west, would teach listening; its representatives ask questions instead of hammering out answers.
Leaving together rather than mooring: that is what the double Sagittarius looks for, with trips, shared projects, and debates by the fire.
Gemini, in the west, would lead them toward quick, curious, somewhat elusive people who share their taste for movement. The danger: slipping away when the union calls for a lease, a joint account, or a calendar; moving forward in small steps would instead strengthen the complicity.
Teaching, research, publishing, tourism, law, international trade, reporting, humanitarian action: the person thrives in jobs that broaden the horizon.
Motivating and passing on knowledge are their gifts. Overly structured positions stifle them quickly, and they make it known. Surrounding themselves with rigorous collaborators, able to handle the details, would let them make their visions concrete without running out of breath. Jobs of transmission suit them particularly well.
A half-packed suitcase, a library overflowing with travel writing and philosophy, friends from everywhere : the double Sagittarius’s daily life resembles a stopover.
Nature, wide open spaces, hikes, horses attract them irresistibly. Routine bores them within days. A long-term project, a trip around the world prepared over years or long studies, would give a direction to this wandering energy.
Sole lord of both the horizon and the Sun, Zeus would be at home if he accompanies them.
The handbooks called him then magnanimous, fair, inclined to law, worship, and teaching. The ancients placed Sagittarius just before the winter solstice: the light declines, then is reborn, an image of a faith that crosses the darkness.
The Centaur rises with the Sun at the first light of December. The birth star thus lodges in the first place, the joy of Mercury among the Greeks, where the manner and course of life were read. Manilius saw in this sign the image of a being half man, half horse, archer and horseman at once.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Sagittarius takes about 2 hr 28 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Sagittarius, the rising sign is Sagittarius for a birth during that rise.
A fire sign, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
The Sagittarius signA fire sign, mutable; descendant in Gemini.
Sagittarius risingJupiter rules Sagittarius: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Jupiter| Sun in Sagittarius | Sagittarius rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| November 24Start of the sign | 8:08 AM to 10:36 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
| December 7Middle of the sign | 7:17 AM to 9:44 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
| December 19End of the sign | 6:29 AM to 8:57 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
On the day of birth, the Centaur sheltered the Sun and also crossed the eastern horizon: it was dawn. Inside as outside reign freedom, optimism, the search for meaning. Magazines simplify this portrait to the extreme; the Moon’s position and the other planets largely redraw its features.
The person values their freedom, that is true, and bears tight frames poorly. But a commitment that has meaning, a cause, a couple lived as an adventure, a teaching job, can mobilize them for the long term. The difficulty would come from routine rather than from commitment itself.
He rules both the horizon and the birth sign, where he sits at home. His exact placement, sign, sector, aspects, would show through which path this expansive energy passes: travel, teaching, faith, law, generosity. An angular Jupiter would reinforce this portrait still more. His house would indicate the broadest area of life.