When is Sagittarius season?

The season begins at 22 Nov 2026, 07:23 UTC and ends at 21 Dec 2026, 20:50 UTC. In between, the Sun sits in Sagittarius, and the whole stretch runs for about 29.6 days. The exact moments are the figures to use when you plan something around the change. A day on the calendar is a rounded version of them.

The 2026 season starts at 22 Nov 2026, 07:23 UTC. The later years are listed below.

The wheel is the twelve signs in order, with Sagittarius lit. For the length of the season the Sun is in Sagittarius, after Scorpio and before Capricorn. Read the wheel as a map of the signs, not as a description of any one person. Every reader sees the same lit sector.

The season is the stretch of the year when the Sun is in the sign called Sagittarius. In the traditional scheme it is a fire sign with a mutable quality, ruled by Jupiter. The hand-over from the sign before is measured, not felt, which is why this page gives exact moments rather than rounded dates.

The zodiac is a band of twelve signs that the Sun appears to pass through over a year. Each sign is a fixed slice of that band, measured from a starting point. A sign is not the same thing as the constellation that shares its name, and this page keeps the two apart.

The length of the season depends on how quickly the Sun appears to move at that point of the year. The Sun takes about 29.6 days to cross Sagittarius, and the exact length shifts by minutes from one year to the next. The start and end moments move by hours because the calendar year does not match the Sun's cycle, as the FAQ explains.

The start and end are the instants of the crossings. A crossing happens at one moment, so the page gives it to the minute in UTC. A calendar day is only a rounded version of that moment, and the rounding depends on where a reader lives.

The season is a frame for attention, not a verdict on any year. Many readers use it as a prompt for a route they have been meaning to take, or a question they have been carrying for a while. The facts tell you when the frame opens and closes. What you do inside it is yours to decide.

The ecliptic is the path the Sun follows through the sky, and the ephemeris is the table that gives its position day by day. The birth chart calculator turns the same positions into a personal chart, and zodiac dates also lists Sun ingresses to the minute.

The Sun is in one sign for the whole season, but it also forms angles with the other bodies as they move. Some of those angles are exact at a single instant. Any contacts this season brings are listed on this page, each as the moment the Sun and another body reach the angle named, in UTC.

An angle like this is a meeting point rather than a verdict. It tends to feel like a question put on the table at one place and one time. Seen from Earth, the Sun and the other body are at a set angle then. Treat it as a date to notice. The orb page explains how close an angle must be to count as exact.

The season is shared by every reader, but where it lands in a personal chart is not. The house it falls in depends on the sign that was rising at the moment of birth. The ascendant page explains how that rising sign is found. For a chart with Aries rising, the season falls in house 9. With Leo rising it falls in house 5, and with Capricorn rising it falls in house 12.

Sagittarius sits between Scorpio and Capricorn on the wheel, and the Sun spends about 29.6 days inside it before it moves on. In the traditional reading, it is a sign of open roads. It likes a route and a question more than a finished answer, and it asks what is worth going to look at.

In a person's life that can show up as a trip, a course taken late, or a book read to the last page. It can also show up as a conversation with someone whose life looks nothing like yours. In the traditional reading, the sign's appetite for the wide view is part of what makes it generous. The same appetite can make it hard to stay with a task that has become small and slow.

The strengths people usually name are curiosity, a readiness to test a belief against experience, and a humour that stays light even when the news is serious. Those are qualities to notice in yourself, not tests to pass. A wide view can also become a way out of a room that needs attention, and that is the care worth watching.

Read the sign as a set of tendencies, not a schedule. A season about the open road may still be a season for staying put. The sign's themes can be used in a kitchen as easily as on a trip, and the question you carry does not need a flight. Pick one question you have been putting off, and carry it with you for the length of the season.

The house page explains how a sign is placed on a chart. The lunation page covers the Moon's cycle, which moves through the same wheel every month.

Near the start, around 22 Nov, a birth before the crossing belongs to Scorpio and a birth after it belongs to Sagittarius. Near the end, around 21 Dec, a birth before the crossing belongs to Sagittarius, and a birth after it belongs to Capricorn. The difference can be a matter of hours, so the exact moment matters more than the calendar date.

A firm answer needs the exact birth time, and the birthplace is used only to turn the local clock reading into UTC. The birth chart calculator takes both and places the Sun in your chart. The cusp page explains how a birth close to a sign change is settled.

Read the result as a place to start a question, not as a settled answer about who you are. A birth near a boundary still belongs to one sign, and knowing the other side of the line is useful.