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Sagittarius

mutable fire · 240°–270° of the ecliptic · the end of autumn

Sagittarius ends autumn, mutable and fire — the last stretch of shortening days before the solstice reverses them.

Jupiter rules it, as it rules Pisces: expansion in its outward register here, and its dissolving one there.

The Sun crosses the galactic centre while in Sagittarius, at roughly 27° of the sign. That is a real alignment and a coincidence of perspective — nothing about it changes the ephemeris.

Traditionally attributed

Expansion, conviction, restlessness, and a talent for overshooting.

Listed because it is what the tradition says, not because this site can check it. Everything above this line is geometry; everything in it is convention.