Sagittarius Moon sign
A Sagittarius Moon sign means the Moon was in Sagittarius when you were born. It crosses the sign in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of it, how it mixes with each Sun sign, and when the next six crossings are.
- Ruled by Jupiter
- No dignity for the Moon here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Sagittarius
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
Sagittarius Moon personality
Restless indoors, and sincere to the point of bluntness.
- GiftsSincereHonourable, kindly and good humoured, active in body and fond of travel. Leo gives this Moon a natural turn for teaching, sharper intuition and something of the prophet.
- StrugglesUnsettledQuick, restless and unsettled in body or mind, often moving house and sometimes changing work, with a tendency to drift into dreaming.
Leo describes a quick, restless and unsettled manner in body or mind: active, fond of exercise, sport and athletics, a quick walker and worker, inclined to travel and to change address often. The disposition he calls sincere and honourable, kindly and good humoured.
He makes more of the religious side here than anywhere else. The native believes sincerely even when the belief is unorthodox, has a natural turn for teaching or preaching, and something of the prophet in them. He mentions increased intuition, a tendency to vivid dreaming, and a possible gift such as clairvoyance.
The Moon is one placement among many. See your whole birth chart, free, on Natal Chart Maker.
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, the chapter on the Sun and Moon combined
A Sagittarius Moon with each Sun sign
Alan Leo read the Moon together with the Sun. Find your Sun sign below.
Aries Sun, Sagittarius Moon
A very good pair, both fire. Quick, sympathetic and inspired, with a knack for speaking accurately about the future. Leo warns of haste and going to extremes, but it suits teachers, preachers and travellers.
Taurus Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Not a good pair unless the rest of the chart helps: the Moon is too impulsive for the steady Taurus nature. Hasty and argumentative when provoked, but with real aspiration and a love of science, philosophy and religion.
Gemini Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Not always a good pair: too much activity and restlessness, too little continuity, and much wasted mental energy. Great enthusiasm and force of character, and the higher and lower minds can help each other.
Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon
A very inharmonious pair, the outer self far too active for the inner one. It stirs feeling and devotion, a yearning for the unattainable, and some psychic and prophetic gifts. Success through foreign affairs and religion.
Leo Sun, Sagittarius Moon
A very good pair, both fire, and a hopeful, successful one. A great love of pleasure and much joy, though restless and inclined to go to extremes, especially in religion or in love.
Virgo Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Philosophical, very intuitive and keen to teach, but impulsive and quick to judge. A successful pair, especially for making money, and it often mixes religious feeling with a head for commerce.
Libra Sun, Sagittarius Moon
A very good pair, though reckless, over-active and excitable at times. Quick in thought and speech, with a talent for preaching and public speaking, and success in many pursuits.
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Combative, sarcastic and indiscreet in speech, with a strong pull towards rash action. Formidable when angry. It tends to join the occult with religion.
Sagittarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Too much independence and a streak of recklessness and rebellion, yet some conservative tendencies too. It quickens mind and body and brings out the love of travel, science, philosophy and religion.
Capricorn Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Not a harmonious pair, but the practical Capricorn Sun steadies the Sagittarian recklessness and gets things done better. Good for explorers, with much religious ambition.
Aquarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon
The Moon is rather too quick for the slow, steady Aquarius nature, though it gains a little concentration. Impulsive and sometimes abrupt in speech, with religious or psychic leanings.
Pisces Sun, Sagittarius Moon
Excitable, irritable and very talkative, though less impulsive than most Sagittarius Moons. Much sympathy, a strong charitable streak and religious feeling.
Alan Leo wrote this in 1899, and a whole chart says far more than two placements. See your Sun and Moon together, free.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition gives the Moon no special strength or weakness here.
There are only four signs where the Moon has a formal dignity. It rules Cancer, is exalted in Taurus, is in detriment in Capricorn and is in fall in Scorpio. In the other eight, including this one, the tradition treats it as a guest that takes the colour of the house it is standing in.
So the reading of these days comes from the sign itself rather than from the Moon's standing in it, which is what the section below sets out.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Travel, teaching, and saying the true thing plainly.
- FireOutwardFire moves outward. The tradition gives these days to starting things, to saying them out loud, and to spending energy rather than saving it.
- MutableTurningA mutable sign ends a season, so the days are read as turning: the impulse is to change, to sort, and to let go.
The tradition gives these days to distance and to open questions, and reads indoor confinement as harder to bear while they last.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Sagittarius Moons
| Enters Sagittarius | Time | Leaves for Capricorn | Time | Stays |
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Questions people ask
What does a Sagittarius Moon sign mean?
That the Moon was in Sagittarius at the moment you were born. In astrology the Moon stands for feelings and instinct, so a Sagittarius Moon is read as a quick, restless, sincere and good humoured emotional nature, drawn to travel and to belief.
How long is the Moon in Sagittarius?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Sagittarius Moon the same as being a Sagittarius?
No. A Sagittarius Sun means the Sun was in Sagittarius at your birth, which is late November to late December. A Sagittarius Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.