November 23 Zodiac Sign

November 23 by year

Almost all rows show Sagittarius from midnight on. The exceptions are the Eastern-time rows for 1931, 1935 and 1943, which show Scorpio for the first hour or so after midnight.

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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.

Scorpio and Sagittarius: the two signs of November 23

The tradition sorts these two signs by what they do when a plan collapses. Scorpio sits in the fixed water slot, with Mars as classical ruler and Pluto as modern one. A fixed sign stays put, and the Scorpio reading tightens and stays silent: it says little, takes control of whatever can be controlled and waits for the right moment to act, keeping a sharp reply in reserve. Sagittarius is mutable fire, handed to Jupiter. Mutable signs bend, and the Sagittarian reading meets a crisis with bluntness and a change of scenery.

Each style carries a cost in the books. Scorpio is said to turn a setback into a long standoff, and Sagittarius to treat a real problem as something a good attitude can outrun.

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 23: 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 23 is almost always Sagittarius

Counting midnight to midnight, 93 years gave a pure Sagittarius date on New York clocks, 95 on Chicago clocks, and 96 and 96 on Denver and Los Angeles clocks. Moving west only moves the Sun's entry earlier on the calendar.

The Sun normally crosses into the sign around the 21st or 22nd. In 2026 the moment is Nov 22, 2026 in New York, about a day before November 23 starts. Every decade from the 1950s through the 2020s reads Sagittarius all day.

Was November 23 ever Scorpio?

Yes, in 3 years, all of them in Eastern time. In each the Sun entered Sagittarius just after midnight, earliest at 12:21 a.m. in 1943 and latest at 1:24 a.m. in 1931.

Take 1943, when New York ran on year-round war time. A birth in the first minutes of November 23, before 12:21 a.m., belonged to Scorpio. In Los Angeles the same moment had come the evening before, on November 22, so a Pacific birth that day was a Sagittarius from the start.

Why some charts print Scorpio for November 23

A birthday chart on a relative's refrigerator may stop Scorpio on the 23rd. That is a rounding. The book by Gary Goldschneider, The Secret Language of Birthdays, names a week around these dates the Cusp of Revolution, and some tables carry the name over as a Scorpio ending. In our data the Sun spends essentially all of the date in Sagittarius.

If you feel pulled both ways, look at Mercury. Mercury, which stays near the Sun, was found in Sagittarius on this date for 54 of the birth years and in Scorpio on 42 of them.

Questions about the November 23 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.