November 22 Zodiac Sign

November 22 by year

Most rows show the clock time of the change: born before it, you are a Scorpio; born at that minute or later, a Sagittarius. A whole-day row means the change fell on November 21 or 23 that year.

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 22

Astrology reads these two signs almost as opposites. Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Mars, with Pluto as its modern ruler. The tradition gives it depth and a long memory: it commits slowly and lets go slowly. Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign ruled by Jupiter, read as candid and restless, drawn to whatever lies past the next horizon, a sign that would rather move on than dwell.

In love the difference shows up as pace. The Scorpio reading wants a few close bonds and full trust before opening up; the Sagittarius reading wants room, honesty said out loud and a partner who travels light. At work Scorpio is described as the researcher who digs until the problem gives way, Sagittarius as the teacher or traveler who sells the big picture. A November 22 Sun sits at the last degree of Scorpio or the first of Sagittarius, so your Moon and rising sign weigh as much as this one degree does.

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 22: 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 22 drifted toward Sagittarius

Through the 1950s and 1960s the answer in Eastern time was the same every year: the Sun changed signs during November 22, 10 years out of 10 in both decades. Since 1976 the change has come on November 21 in every leap year, and since 2009 in the year after each leap year as well. That makes November 22 a whole Sagittarius day 18 times in our count.

The calendar causes this. The Sun's year is about six hours longer than 365 days, so the change slides later by about six hours a year and jumps back a day in each leap year. Over a century the leap days slightly overcorrect, and the change creeps earlier. The year 1900 had no February 29, which reset the drift, but 2000 did have one, so the creep has continued. In 2100 a skipped leap day will push the change back toward November 22 and 23.

Whole-day Scorpio on November 22 belongs to the past: in Eastern time it happened in 1931, 1935 and 1943, and not once since.

Your time zone changes the answer

The Sun changes signs at one instant for the whole planet, but the clock reads differently in each place. The same moment is 2:23 a.m. on November 22, 2026 in New York and 11:23 p.m. on November 21 in Los Angeles. So a baby born in New York at 1 a.m. that day is a Scorpio, while every baby born in Los Angeles on November 22, 2026 is a Sagittarius.

Across 1930 to 2025, an average November 22 was 62.9% Sagittarius by the hour in Eastern time, 66.1% in Central, 69.3% in Mountain and 72.3% in Pacific. In Pacific time the whole day was Sagittarius in 27 years and never all Scorpio.

What time the Sun enters Sagittarius on November 22

There is no fixed hour. In the 75 years when the change fell on November 22 in Eastern time, it came between midnight and 6 a.m. in 21, in the morning in 25, in the afternoon in 17 and in the evening in 12. In 2026 it comes at 2:23 a.m. Eastern, and in 2027 at 8:16 a.m.

If your birth certificate gives a time and the table shows a change on your birthday, compare the two. A birth one minute before the change is a Scorpio Sun at 29°59′; one minute after, a Sagittarius Sun at 0°00′.

The Scorpio-Sagittarius cusp

Birthday books treat the days around November 22 as a blend of both signs. Gary Goldschneider's The Secret Language of Birthdays named the week of about November 18 to 24 the Cusp of Revolution, and cusp sites that use the name, such as vibekin.app, credit it to that book. Astrologers who work from charts put it differently: the Sun stands in one sign at the moment you are born, so you are one or the other.

If you recognize yourself in both signs, the rest of your chart is the usual explanation. Mercury never strays far from the Sun, and on a November 22 birthday it was in Sagittarius in 52 of our 96 years and in Scorpio in 44, so a Scorpio Sun often comes with a Sagittarius Mercury, or the reverse.

Questions about the November 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.