11/24/2019
Sagittarius (The Centaur)
Sagittarius begins on November 23rd and ends December 21st spanning the 240th - 270th degrees of the zodiac. This is the ninth sign and house on the wheel; ruled by Jupiter which represents post-secondary education (college and university), religion and spiritual pursuits, luck, traveling abroad, culture and foreign lands, and I would even go as far as to say that we see who our male mentors will be in this house. Sagittarius also shows us our desire and ability to travel be it mentally, or physically.
Sag is Chiron the centaur; master archer who mentored the Greek God Achilles in the Trojan war. (Stay tuned for that post this month!)
But to say the least, Chiron is the learned healer who’s intelligence forms a bridge between the earth and the cosmos; meaning that Sag is self taught in matters of the spirit. The motto for Sagittarius is “I understand”. Archer folk are here to spread spiritual downloads and philosophical information to the collective just like me wanting to start my spiritual advising business! Seers and prophets are also born under this sign.
The sag archetype also represents freedom. I as a sag sun woman literally have this word etched into my skin as a tattoo. Sagittarius is a masculine mutable sign. Not receptive, but direct as we see how the archer points its arrow (energy) in a direction and executes by letting go. The Scorpio Ta**us axis that precedes this sign has control issues and struggles with holding things in or holding on to things that need to be released in order for the transformation that is inevitable for them to occur. It is only natural that the freedom-loving archetypes of Gemini and Sag come after Ta**us and Scorpio.
Sag is half man half animal; this translates as the ability to be wise and poised, or to be be***al and primal.
This archetype represents philosophy and religion and the journey into meaning,abstract concepts, and foreign lands
Sag rules the liver, thighs, and hips. People with this sun sign (or ascendant) often have a shapely bottom half; featuring a large behind, and muscular legs like a horse, or have very long traveling legs.
The light of Sagittarius is enthusiastic, optimistic, inspirational, confident, outdoorsy, curious, multi-cultural , ethical, metaphysical, scholarly, and philosophical. We sag folks love books about world religion and putting all the pieces together essentially to come to the conclusion that everyone has their own path to connect to the divine (which is actually just your higher-self–but that's another post for another day), it is the light of sag that can help the collective connect to their divine energy. This sign has a deep faith and reverence for spirit and flow of vast eternal intelligence which lies in each one of us.
The house with Sagittarius on the cusp is the area of life where you need to seek freedom, define your own beliefs and share them with the collective, philosophize, and travel be it mentally, physically, or spiritually.
The shadow side of Sagittarius is dogmatic, preachy, blunt to the point of rudeness, careless of details, uncommitted, foolish, selfish, judgmental, addictive, and clumsyl
Misdirected Sagittarius energy is very indecisive, much like their opposite Gemini. They’ll draw their arrow back but are too afraid to release and execute out of fear that they’ll miss their mark or make a wrong choice.The key for Sag here is that there are no failures; only lessons. Ruled by Jupiter, the planet of luck and abundance, it is imperative for Sag to have faith in themselves! I believe that this is the key for sag manifestations.
The Gemini and Sagittarius axis is about thought. I’ve been downloaded this year that your mind is actually your soul. The purity and state of it determines your physical reality. The lesson here is to understand that we are powerful creators and co-creators with the universe, and we are creating our reality whether we do so intentionally (deciding what we want and thinking on it, meditating about it, visualizing it, and speaking it into existence), OR letting our minds run rampant and recycling the same thoughts, programming, and emotions through our nervous system; thus passively creating our reality and simply accepting our circumstances. If you can change your mind/perspective, you can change your situation.
While sag is definitely here to explore religion and spirituality, the un-evolved archer becomes stuck and inflexible in their belief system. Clinging hopelessly to the rigidness of rituals and practices, or ways of thinking. I remember personally during a season of healing this year, I would wake up every day around 6am; commune with my ancestors, read, write, and do yoga. There were days that I would be sick or simply have a change in my schedule that wouldn’t allow for the three hours i was dedicating to this each morning. I would allow my ego to take over and beat myself up for this. A lesson my Sagittarius sun had to learn was that as life changes, so do we. I learned that instead of beating myself up for not doing the same thing every single day, (which I don’t really want to anyway as I find change exciting), to listen to my body and higher-self instead and base my rituals off of that. My needs emotionally and spiritually change from day to day and from season to season and that’s okay! My rituals also change in terms of time, and content, and frequency and that’s okay too. I realize now that I”m not here to hold myself to ridiculous dogmatic standards of rigidity; but simply to embrace the interchangeability of my spirit and to set my sights high; point, pull back, and release to hit my target with grace and ease
xoxo
Jes
SN: Stay tuned for more articles about sag season, chiron, 9th house affairs, and Jupiter
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