Sagittarius: Divinatory Meaning

The symbol of the Centaur with bow and arrow aimed heavenward represents his attempt to liberate himself from his lower nature and become one with the Higher Plane. His fire nature pushes him onward and upward.

The average Sag is outgoing, optimistic, friendly, extroverted. They love sports and gambling, taking chances, pushing the envelope. They are rather superficial in the first half of their lives, and freedom to move is of utmost importance. "Don’t fence me in," is their battle cry. Where a Capricorn will cling to tradition, a Sag wants to move forward. They love to travel, whether physically or in the mind.

Sagittarius is a born optimist; for him everything is always okay and always arranged in the best way possible. Sagittarians feel they can solve all problems and will do all things required of them. Sagittarians are prone to over-optimism, exaggeration, mockery, gambling and light-headedness. They are natural philosophers, teachers, educators, lovers, communicators, and friends. They like to travel, they love their freedom and space, and they are interested in world exploration as well as the study of human behavior, culture and religion. They share their knowledge with whoever seeks it. They love life and can be quite mischievous children.

Sagittarians are usually modest and are often religious, with a strong sense of morality, though they tend to overemphasize the ethical codes they follow and worship beliefs about God rather than God Himself. This means that, negatively, they regard rigid, unloving, intolerant adherence to ritual and conventional codes as more important than the truths they symbolize or embody. They sometimes pay lip service to religions and political parties in which they have ceased to believe because the outward forms satisfy them, yet they may not hesitate to switch allegiance in politics or change their system of belief if they see personal advantage to themselves in doing so.

They have both profound and widely ranging minds, equipped with foresight and good judgement, and they can be witty conversationalists. They love to initiate new projects (they make excellent researchers) and have an urge to understand conceptions that are new to them. they think rapidly, are intuitive and often original, but are better at adapting than inventing and are at their best when working with colleagues of other types of character that compliment their own. They are strong-willed and good at organizing, a combination that gives them the ability to bring any project they undertake to a successful conclusion. Their generosity can be balanced by their extreme care at handling their resources. Sagittarians are ardent, sincere and straightforward in love, normally conventional and in control of their sexual natures.

Their restlessness, if excessive, can jeopardize more than their own stability. Procrastination and lack of organization can give their nerves a hard time. They can also be quite blunt, thus wounding others with their words. On the other hand they are magnanimous in forgiving offenses and are responsible when looking after the elderly in the family. They are natural teachers and philosophers with a talent for expounding the moral principles and laws which seem to explain the universe. This gift enables them to be successful churchmen on the one hand and scientists on the other. The law and politics also suit them, as does public service, social administration, public relations and advertising. Travel and exploration naturally appeal to such restless souls.

Sagittarius has tremendous spiritual potential. As mid-life approaches, they become interested in distant horizons of the superconscious – philosophy, higher learning, the esoteric. When they lean toward spirituality they can create miracles, and that is why so many consider them lucky. Being Jupiter ruled, the Greater Benefic does give them an amount of luck. 

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Medically Speaking

Sagittarius governs the hips, thighs and sacral area, and upper leg. Natives may suffer from ailments of the hips and thighs and are liable to sciatica and rheumatism. An alleged deficiency of silicon in their physiques can give them poor skin, nails and hair.

As they are often sportsmen indulging in dangerous pursuits, and overdoing things (negative Jupiter), they are prone to accidents which arise from these. The ancient astrologers mention falls from horses and hurts from them and other four-footed beasts. The taking of risks in other sports is a danger to the modern Sagittarian, and he is also liable to accidents with fire and heat.

Kabbalistic Connection

Kislev is the sign of Sagittarius. It is central column of the fire signs, ruled by Jupiter, in Hebrew “Tzedek”, and the Hebrew letters Samech and Gimel. The letter Samech created the sign of Sagittarius. Samech comes from the phrase Somech noflim (supporting the fallen). In the Zohar, the article called “the letter of Rav Hamnuna Saba (the Elder)”, it says that the Hebrew letters came before the Creator to ask that the world be created beginning with each one. When the letter Samech came before the Creator, the Creator told it to go back to its place, which is after the letter Nun, and to support the Nun from falling. That is how we get the word nes (Eng. miracle). The letter Nun created the sign of Scorpio in which the Flood happened, and after the Flood God put the rainbow in the sky as an omen that there never be a flood again.

Sagittarius in Hebrew is called Keshet, or rainbow. This is the rainbow in the sky, an omen between God and Noach a flood would never destroy the land. Keshet is represented by the centaur, the mythological half-man, half-horse figure who hunts with a bow and arrow.

John of Berry’s Petites Heures
France, Paris 14th Century.

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