November 21 Zodiac Sign

November 21 by year

Only the rows that name a clock time break the Scorpio pattern. The first came in 1976 in Eastern time and in 1956 in Pacific time.

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

Shown: 2021 to 2030. Born earlier? Tap Show all years under the table, then jump to your decade.

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.

Scorpio and Sagittarius: the two signs of November 21

Astrology gives the two signs different working styles. Scorpio is fixed water under Mars, with Pluto as the modern co-ruler. Fixed signs are read as the finishers, and the Scorpio version is stamina: one hard problem, every claim tested before it is trusted, and a decision that rarely gets reversed. Sagittarius is mutable fire under Jupiter. Mutable signs adapt, and this one is read as starting on enthusiasm, sketching a large plan and changing course without much fuss.

At one desk, the Scorpio reading takes the audit and the long investigation. The Sagittarius reading takes the pitch and the project that needs somebody to say yes to the unknown. The first can be slow to begin because it wants certainty; the second can be slow to finish because the next idea has arrived.

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

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

The year ahead for both sides of November 21: Scorpio horoscope 2027 · Sagittarius horoscope 2027.

How often Scorpio and Sagittarius 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.Scorpio is one of the three water signs, with its own section on how much water a chart holds: water signs.

Why November 21 is usually Scorpio

The Sun usually reaches Sagittarius a day or so after November 21, which leaves the date inside Scorpio. Eastern time never recorded a full day of Sagittarius here, not once in 96 years.

Take 2022. The Sun crossed over at 3:20 a.m. on Nov 22, 2022, hours after November 21 had ended in New York, so anyone born in the Eastern zone on November 21, 2022 was a Scorpio.

From 1930 through 1975 the date read Scorpio from midnight to midnight. The first exception was 1976, and leap years have been exceptions ever since, joined from 2009 by the year after each one.

Can November 21 be Sagittarius?

Yes, but only late. The Eastern-time changes on this date split into 5 afternoon ones and 13 evening ones, with none before noon. The earliest was 2:56 p.m. in 2024, the last 11:22 p.m. in 2009.

On Pacific clocks, three hours behind New York, the earliest change was 11:56 a.m. A birth earlier that day is a Scorpio in every year we counted, in all four zones. For a later birth, find your year in the table and compare its change time with the one on the certificate.

Pacific time disagrees in nine years

Picture a Los Angeles birth certificate from 1960, stamped late on November 21. The Pacific clock showed 11:18 p.m. on Nov 21, 1960 when the Sun reached Sagittarius, so a baby delivered after that minute was a Sagittarius. A New York baby born at any hour that day was a Scorpio, because the clocks there showed 2:18 a.m. on Nov 22, 1960 when it happened.

Nine years show the disagreement, five of them between 1956 and 1972 and four between 1993 and 2005. Eastern time has an all-Scorpio day in each, Pacific time a split one.

Questions about the November 21 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.