A bon vivant with a secret garden: optimism and frankness in front, passions and secrets behind.
The traveler’s fire over deep water: one sets off far, laughs loudly, but what matters is lived in secret, away from view.
Combining a contagious optimism with a deep understanding of people and situations.
Putting on a front of cheerfulness to hide wounds confided to no one.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
November gives way to December: the Centaur follows the stinger, and these neighbors, the Greeks said, do not see each other.
Fixed water and mutable fire, Mars and Pluto in the depths, Jupiter on the horizon: depth and expansion, secrecy and frankness. The first contact is warm and open; the person laughs readily, tells of a trip to the ends of the earth, and proposes leaving together next weekend. Few people guess their depth at first.
The Sun hides in the 12th house: backstage, retreat, private life. Behind Sagittarius’s joviality, this combination lives an intense inner quest: spirituality, psychology, philosophy, meditation, esoteric reading. It needs regular retreats, solitude, remote places. It often understands others better than they understand themselves, and helps them discreetly. Its friends know they can confide anything to it.
The trap arises from a gap between the cheerful shop window and the grave interior. One displays confidence, the other keeps its wounds quiet: they are thought carefree in the midst of a storm, and they decline the outstretched hand. The Gemini of the west would encourage speech; their representatives, curious and light, help to name what is being lived.
Scorpio with Sagittarius rising combines the enthusiasm of an adventure with the depth of a commitment.
They need freedom and intensity at once, which sometimes baffles their partners. Gemini, in the west, would send lively, laughing, curious people who ease the atmosphere. Their lightness rests them. Asking them to listen to their silences too, and not only their travel stories, would make the bond deeper.
Research, teaching, psychology, publishing, international journalism, humanitarian work, counseling: the combination thrives in fields that join a distant horizon with depth.
They work well behind the scenes, on substantial projects carried out quietly. The Sun’s 12th house would favor discreet, even secluded trades. Their limit would be keeping to themselves difficulties that a team could have shared. They often find their true vocation there.
Their days alternate movement and retreat: a planned trip, a hike, then an evening alone with a philosophy essay or a notebook.
The home opens readily to friends, but includes a secret corner, office or workshop, where no one goes. The person needs nature and silence. A regular stay in a monastery, a mountain hut, or a little-visited island would let them recharge.
The great benefic, who commands the horizon, would have no privilege under Scorpio; he would take on a more mystical, more secret color.
Mars, ancient sovereign of the birth sign, is at home there. Pluto, attached to Scorpio by the moderns, would reinforce the attraction to the invisible. The two signs, neighbors, would not see each other, and each ruler would therefore act in their own way, without consulting.
The Centaur crosses the horizon in mid-morning; the Sun, risen not long ago, shines just above it. It resides in the 12th house, the “Bad Spirit” where Saturn took pleasure: confinement, hidden adversaries, secluded life. The ancients saw in this a rich inner life, hidden from the world’s gaze.
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 Scorpio, the rising sign is Sagittarius for a birth during that rise.
A water sign, fixed, ruled by Mars and Pluto (modern).
The Scorpio 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 Scorpio | Sagittarius rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| October 25Start of the sign | 10:06 AM to 12:34 PM | 2 hr 28 min |
| November 7Middle of the sign | 9:14 AM to 11:42 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
| November 20End of the sign | 8:23 AM to 10:51 AM | 2 hr 28 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
Both, depending on the floor you look at. The Sagittarius rising sign gives a jovial, optimistic, adventurous front; the Sun in Scorpio and in the 12th house, an intense, hidden inner life. The person laughs readily but rarely confides their sorrows. Those close to them learn to read between their bursts of laughter.
Just before the Centaur horizon, the solar Scorpio falls into the hidden place, the 12th of the chart. Inwardness, spiritual quest, and unsigned help would shape the self there. Regular retreats would be vital to them. Meditating, writing, and traveling alone would let them recharge. This need is not an escape.
Jupiter rules the rising sign. United with the Sun under the stinger, he would feed a secret fervor; exalted in Cancer, an enveloping kindness; at home in the Centaur, a thirst for wide-open spaces. His sector would designate the domain where meaning is sought, studies, travel, or commitment.