Sagittarius runs from the twenty second of November to the twenty first of December and gets Temperance, which looks at first like a joke at the sign’s expense.
It is not. Temperance is not really the card about moderation, whatever the name suggests. It is about mixing.
Why Temperance belongs to Sagittarius
Look at what the figure is doing: pouring water between two cups at an angle that could not work, one foot on the grass and one in the stream, entirely unbothered.
That is a picture of combining two things that should not go together and getting something new out of it, which is what Sagittarius does with places, ideas and people. The Temperance page has more on why it is one of the most quietly hopeful cards in the deck.
The court card: the Knight of Wands
Mutable fire is the Knight of Wands, the one on the rearing horse with his hair on end, halfway out of the frame already.
He is not subtle and he is often right. Beside Temperance he describes somebody with a great deal of momentum who is learning, slowly and against their will, that some things only work at their own pace.
Sagittarius in love
Generous, funny, allergic to being managed. Sagittarius in love wants a companion rather than an audience, and does badly in any arrangement that feels like a smaller room than the one they were in before.
Temperance suggests the useful thing here is blending rather than choosing: two lives that keep their own shape and still mix. That takes longer to build than either person expects.
Sagittarius at work
Big picture, quick to see where something is going, excellent at the parts of a job that involve conviction. The detail is the part that suffers, and everyone involved usually knows it.
The card’s advice at work is unglamorous: let something take the time it takes. Sagittarius tends to lose more to impatience than to any lack of ability.
More than a sun sign
A month is a broad thing to read from. The birth card calculator works from your actual date and usually lands closer.
And half a thing done today still counts, whatever the whole thing was going to be.
Questions people ask
Why does the biggest sign get the card about moderation?
Because Temperance is not really about moderation. It is about mixing two things that do not obviously go together until they become something else, which is a better description of Sagittarius than restraint would be.
What is the angel actually doing?
Pouring liquid between two cups at an angle no physics allows, with one foot on land and one in the water. Every part of the picture is about combining rather than choosing.
Is Temperance a slow card?
It is a patient one, which is not the same thing. It describes the time something takes to become right, and it is the card most likely to turn up when somebody is trying to rush a good thing.