November Zodiac Signs: Scorpio and Sagittarius

November: Scorpio until the Sun enters Sagittarius. In US Eastern Time the change fell on November 21 in 18 years, November 22 in 68 years, November 23 in 1 year (birth years 1940-2026, JPL Horizons); on those days the sign depends on the year and time of birth.

November at a glance

• Signs: Scorpio → Sagittarius
• Change days (ET): see the table below
• Elements: Water (Scorpio) → Fire (Sagittarius)
• Modalities: Fixed (Scorpio) → Mutable (Sagittarius)
• Rulers: Pluto (traditional: Mars) and Jupiter

Start with the row for your birthday. Every birth year from 1940 to 2026 puts November 1–20 in Scorpio and November 24–30 in Sagittarius, on Eastern clocks and on Pacific ones, so for those days the November zodiac sign needs nothing more.

These counts follow New York time. A switch less than an hour after midnight there happens, by Central, Mountain or Pacific reckoning, on the evening before, and a switch near the end of the Eastern day is already dated a day later in UTC.

The Sun reached Scorpio in late October, around October 22–24 Eastern Time, so November keeps its closing stretch. By Eastern clocks, across the 1940–2026 birth years, the stretch covers November 1–20 in full, November 21 at least until 2:57 p.m., and in most years the part of November 22 before the switch.

Cold, wet and soft are the three qualities the tradition assigns to Water, Scorpio's element, and Cancer and Pisces share the Water triplicity with it. In the Northern Hemisphere Scorpio stands midway through autumn, and in the Southern Hemisphere midway through spring; that central place is what the label Fixed records. It belongs to the negative polarity, the group the tradition also calls receptive.

The ruler notes below give astrology's view of planets and signs: astrology is an interpretive tradition, not a scientifically validated method, and it says nothing certain about a person with a November birthday. Mars was Scorpio's ruler in classical astrology, and the 20th century brought in Pluto as its modern ruler. Astrology lists incredible feats among Pluto's associations, together with a need for two sides to cooperate or share if both are to survive. For the sign's full profile, see Scorpio zodiac sign.

Sagittarius takes the rest of the month and carries on into December until the Sun reaches Capricorn around December 21–22, Eastern Time. November therefore gets its first days: November 24–30 in every birth year 1940–2026, on either coast's clock, plus November 23 in every one of those years except 1943 by Eastern Time, and whatever part of the change day came after the switch.

Sagittarius is a Fire sign, grouped with Aries and Leo in one triplicity, and in the tradition Fire stands for heat, dryness and ardor. It is the last of the three signs of northern autumn, and of southern spring, and Mutable is the label for that closing place. Its polarity is the positive one, which the tradition also terms active.

Crossing into Sagittarius, the Sun leaves Water for Fire and Fixed for Mutable, yet stays in northern autumn, moving from its middle sign to its last.

Jupiter rules Sagittarius. Astrology ties Jupiter to the law, and the tradition regarded the planet as warm and moist by nature and therefore favorable to life. Everything else about the sign, from its symbol to its dates, sits on the Sagittarius zodiac sign page.

Plenty of people call a November 21 or 22 birthday a "cusp" birthday, yet the sky has no overlap to be born into: the Sun passed into Sagittarius at a single minute.

Which date carries the switch has been drifting. On Eastern clocks it fell on November 22 in 41 of the 44 birth years from 1940 to 1983, with November 21 in 2 and November 23 in 1. Across 1984–2026 the split was 27 years on November 22 and 16 on November 21.

Pacific clocks pull some switches back a day. One that comes soon after midnight Eastern on November 22 is still November 21 in California, so by Pacific Time November 21 was a change day in 28 birth years from 1940 to 2026. The 2005 switch shows it: 12:15 a.m. on November 22 by Eastern clocks was 9:15 p.m. on November 21 by Pacific ones. The lone November 23 switch, in 1943, came at 12:21 a.m. Eastern War Time, still the evening of November 22 on the West Coast. The November 21 zodiac sign and November 22 zodiac sign pages show each birth year's switch time in both zones.

When a birthday lands on one of those dates, three things decide the sign: year, clock time and birthplace. Add them to check with your birth time, at no cost and without an account. With no time entered, the chart is calculated for 12:00 noon and marked as such.

Instead of relying on a single noon position, the calculator checks for any sign changes across your entire local birth date. If the Sun, the Moon, or another planet changes sign during that local day, the result shows each possible sign for that day rather than guessing a single one.

Scorpio's first days are on the October zodiac signs page, the end of Sagittarius is on December zodiac signs, and the whole year is under birthday zodiac signs.

FAQ

What zodiac sign is November? Scorpio for November 1–20 and Sagittarius for November 24–30, in every birth year from 1940 to 2026 on Eastern and Pacific clocks alike. By Eastern Time, each of November 21, 22 and 23 has gone either way, which brings in the year and the hour.

Is November 22 Scorpio or Sagittarius? In most birth years from 1940 to 2026 the Sun entered Sagittarius at some point during November 22, so a birth before that minute is Scorpio and one after it Sagittarius. Before November 22 ended, Sagittarius held the Sun in every one of those years by Pacific clocks, and in all but 1943 by Eastern ones.

Is November 21 Scorpio or Sagittarius? In most birth years from 1940 to 2026 it stayed Scorpio for all 24 hours, on Eastern and Pacific clocks alike. In the other years the Sun entered Sagittarius during the day, and that has happened more often since 1984.

How this page was made

Prepared by the Astrolivo editorial team. Change days and switch times rest on NASA JPL Horizons ephemeris data; the sign labels and planet associations are drawn from the Wikipedia articles "Astrological sign," "Planets in astrology," "Triplicity," "Astrology and the classical elements" and "Astrology and science," and fact-checked against them. Sign readings are the Western tradition's.