Moon in Sagittarius

What Moon in Sagittarius means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Moon is actually in Sagittarius.

What Moon in Sagittarius means

With your Moon in Sagittarius, your feelings need room and a sense of possibility — you steady yourself by zooming out to the bigger picture. Sagittarius is a fire sign, so honesty, humor, and some freedom keep you well.

A sign placement reads the same in every house system.

These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.

The sign: Sagittarius

Element
Fire
Modality
Mutable
Polarity
Yang: outward, active
Ruler
Jupiter

Essential dignity

The Moon holds none of the four major dignities in Sagittarius: no rulership or exaltation, no detriment or fall.

The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).

When the Moon is in Sagittarius

The Moon spends about two and a half days in each sign and returns roughly every 27 days. Its next passes in Sagittarius:

EntersLeaves
Oct 14, 2026, 00:59Oct 16, 2026, 12:56
Nov 10, 2026, 08:35Nov 12, 2026, 20:27
Dec 7, 2026, 15:06Dec 10, 2026, 03:08
Jan 3, 2027, 20:56Jan 6, 2027, 09:17
Jan 31, 2027, 03:13Feb 2, 2027, 15:32
Feb 27, 2027, 10:52Mar 1, 2027, 22:35

Times in UTC, to the minute.

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How this page is made

Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.