Sagittarius

You ask the question at the lecture that everyone else was thinking, then follow the speaker out into the corridor to hear the rest of the answer. Sagittarius wants to know what it all means, and will go a long way to find out.

The Archer is a centaur, half horse and half man, and the tradition sometimes names it Chiron, the wise teacher who trained heroes and healers. The glyph is an arrow, drawn upward and away. The sign aims, and it aims at something it cannot yet see.

In your chart

A Sun in Sagittarius is generous with its time and its opinions, and needs a horizon. The Moon in Sagittarius settles feeling with movement: a long walk, a plan for a trip, a good argument about something large. Sagittarius rising arrives friendly and enthusiastic, and makes Jupiter the chart’s ruler. The house Sagittarius holds is where you believe most strongly, and where you outgrow things fastest.

Themes

Mutable fire spreads: an idea catches and goes through a room. Jupiter rules it, the planet of expansion, so that a Sagittarius placement meets the world with more trust than caution, and usually finds the world meets it back. Travel, teaching, law, faith and any subject that asks what people are for belong here.

The risk is the sermon. A truth that has just been found is told to everyone at once, without checking who is listening, and a promise made in the first flush of enthusiasm still has to be kept in the second. Restlessness looks like freedom until the same door has been walked through many times. Sagittarius matures by staying long enough to see the end of something.

What it adds up to

Sagittarius faces Gemini. The one collects facts and the other asks what they mean, and a chart that holds both is hard to fool.

How the analysis treats it

Jupiter is where the analysis looks next. Its position shows where the belief goes and what it grows into; the placement itself is given a degree and a house.