December 22 Zodiac Sign

December 22 by year

Rows with a clock time all lie at or before 2011. Every later row reads Capricorn all day.

Faster: enter your year above and you get your answer without the table.

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Times are clock times of that year in New York and Los Angeles, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris, rounded to the minute, with the daylight saving rules in force at the time. Central and Mountain time fall between the two columns.

Sagittarius and Capricorn: the two signs of December 22

Tradition pairs the two signs with opposite habits when a plan falls apart. Capricorn is cardinal earth under Saturn, and the Capricorn reading steps forward at once: it makes the list and hands out the tasks, keeping the heaviest one. Saturn adds the lesson that a limit is information, so the sign is read as rationing effort and cutting losses early. Sagittarius, mutable fire under Jupiter, is read as bargaining with the odds. It looks for the larger lesson in the mess and bets on the next opening, leaving the cleanup for a calmer hour.

The books list the weak points too. The Capricorn reading can take on more than one person can carry, and the Sagittarius reading can announce a recovery before it has happened.

On this site: Moon in Sagittarius, Moon in Capricorn, Venus in Sagittarius, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Sagittarius, Mars in Capricorn, Mercury in Sagittarius, Mercury in Capricorn.

Each sign in full: Sagittarius zodiac sign · Capricorn zodiac sign; how the two get along: Sagittarius and Capricorn compatibility.

The year ahead for both sides of December 22: Sagittarius horoscope 2027 · Capricorn horoscope 2027.

How often Sagittarius and Capricorn come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics.Sagittarius belongs to the fire element with two other signs: fire signs. Where Capricorn stands among Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn: earth signs.

Is December 22 a Capricorn?

Where December 21 turns on the hour, December 22 mostly does not. Capricorn held 90.4% of the date on average in Eastern time and all of it in 58 years.

A birth at any hour on December 22 is therefore a Capricorn except in the 38 years that opened in Sagittarius, and there the Sagittarius stretch ran from midnight until the minute of the entry. The table marks those rows.

When was December 22 Sagittarius?

The Sagittarius stretch sat in the first half of the day, and the last one came in 2011. From 2012 the date has been Capricorn from midnight.

Take 1970. The Sun entered Capricorn at 1:35 a.m. on Dec 22, 1970, so a New York birth at midnight sat in Sagittarius for the next hour and a half. In Los Angeles the entry had come the evening before (Dec 21, 1970, 10:35 p.m.), and all of December 22 was already Capricorn.

What time does the Sun enter Capricorn?

In 2026 the Sun reaches 0° Capricorn, the December solstice, at 3:50 p.m. on Dec 21, 2026, so December 22 is Capricorn from its first minute. The same holds for every year through 2030.

Of the split years, the entry came before 6 a.m. in 21, between 6 a.m. and noon in 13 and in the afternoon in 4. None had it in the evening. The range ran from 12:03 a.m. to 2:29 p.m.

Questions about the December 22 zodiac sign

Other cusp birthdays

Every date where the zodiac sign depends on the year or the hour, grouped by the change of sign:

• ♓︎ Pisces to ♈︎ Aries: March 19 · March 20 · March 21
• ♈︎ Aries to ♉︎ Taurus: April 19 · April 20
• ♉︎ Taurus to ♊︎ Gemini: May 20 · May 21
• ♊︎ Gemini to ♋︎ Cancer: June 20 · June 21 · June 22
• ♋︎ Cancer to ♌︎ Leo: July 22 · July 23
• ♌︎ Leo to ♍︎ Virgo: August 22 · August 23
• ♍︎ Virgo to ♎︎ Libra: September 22 · September 23
• ♎︎ Libra to ♏︎ Scorpio: October 22 · October 23 · October 24
• ♏︎ Scorpio to ♐︎ Sagittarius: November 21 · November 22 · November 23
• ♐︎ Sagittarius to ♑︎ Capricorn: December 21 · December 22
• ♑︎ Capricorn to ♒︎ Aquarius: January 19 · January 20 · January 21
• ♒︎ Aquarius to ♓︎ Pisces: February 18 · February 19

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every time and count on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over the years 1930 to 2030, with historical US time zone rules. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.