Aspects for the week beginning 7 December 2025

Sagittarius Archetypes

I am writing about the Sagittarian Archetypes today, before the month of Sagittarius is out (a friend reminded me this week!),  This is the tenth of my series specifically on astrological Archetypes.  It is time to embrace the potential of this sign, turning the spotlight on its Archetypes.

A few words about Sagittarius:  If  you have a Sagittarian Ascendant, you are likely to be more physically Sagittarian, e.g. sporty.  If you have Sagittarian Sunsign, you may not have that type of physicality, and may be more of a traveller in the realms of seeking after truth.  Often Sun Sagittarians have both, of course.

So, following, are some thoughts I highlighted back in my 2015 blog, and then some examples of Sagittarius and its Archetypes, including from history:

“Storyteller

According to Caroline Myss, the Storyteller “relays wisdom and foolishness, mistakes and successes, fact and fiction on a plane that’s often heightened beyond ordinary awareness, including a metaphorical level of teaching.”

I am sure that Scheherazade, spinner of “The 1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights”, was a Sagittarian!  Sagittarians like to embroider and exaggerate the truth.

Famous Examples: Jane Austen, Edna o’ Brien, Joanna Trollope

Philosopher

Famous Example: Alain de Botton

Let’s face it, to carve out a profession as a Philosopher is a rare thing, but Alain de Botton has managed to do it in this modern day.  He has followed his Soul’s path and made it his career.  His birthday is 20th December (Sun at 28 degrees Sagittarius).

Clown

Sagittarius is known for its humour, and the Clown is an old Archetype, and professes comedy but sometimes sheds a tear.  People often wonder why Sagittarians are not always jolly – often they will have some planets of their neighbouring sign Capricorn in their chart, so are no strangers to depression.  There are people who have a phobia of Clowns – this can be a past-life association or childhood trauma, and can be seen in the chart in a difficult aspect to jolly Jupiter.

Famous Examples: Miranda Hart, Christopher Biggins, Billy Connolly and Martin Clunes

New Archetype – The Spiritual Seeker

In her book “Archetypes” Caroline Myss identifies the Spiritual Seeker as one of her new Archetypes for the 21st Century.

Characteristics of the Spiritual Seeker are very Sagittarian and include:

• “trusts intuition unconditionally
• searches for the true meaning and purpose of her life”

She points out that the Spiritual Seeker is a Seeker and not a Finder.  This resonates with the esoteric seed thought for Sagittarius in the Alice Bailey teachings:

“I see the goal.  I reach that goal and then I see another.”  The Sagittarian archer needs an endless supply of arrows.

Caroline is herself a Sagittarian, with a good few planets in that sign.  In “Archetypes” she stresses that the real goal is Truth, and becoming comfortable with the Truth.

There are other aspects of the Spiritual Seeker which are more of a Piscean nature, however.”

Other Archetypes

The Animal Lover

Sagittarians are most likely to be animal lovers, and this can lead them to be veterinary surgeons or work with animals in some way.  The animals they are most associated with are horses (centaurs!) and large dogs.

Famous Equestrian Jockeys: Frankie Dettori, Greville Starkey

This archetype can be seen in other ways in a birth chart.  For example, with Jupiter being the ruling planet of Sagittarius, I know of someone who has Jupiter on her I.C. (at the nadir of the chart).  This point represents roots and security.  Thus in her psychology (the comfort that horses can bring) and in her lifestyle, horses are the foundation of her life and lifestyle.

The Pollyanna

The Pollyanna plays “the glad game” and always looks for the silver lining.  An Optimist par excellence, but often a Sagittarian will have planets in the next sign, Capricorn, so their cup may be only half full!  So that may answer a query in your mind.

The Adventurer

Possibly because they are focussed on positivity, or have such an expansive energy, The Adventurer is one of the Archetypes associated with this sign.

The Traveller

Sagittarians can be addicted to travel, or may emigrate significantly in their lives.  This travelling is internal in the context of mental travel such as philosophy, or armchair travelling, but can lead to work as a travel or tour guide, or a career in imports and exports for example.

Historical/more in-depth Examples

The Veterinary Surgeon

Noel Fitzpatrick (b 13/12/1957)

The well-known TV Vet Noel Fitzpatrick has the Sun in Sagittarius, combined with a caring Cancerian Ascendant (we have a birth time for him).  He has the Sun conjunct Mercury in that sign.  His Chiron (Inner Healer) is conjunct his Midheaven (career) and is exactly trine his Neptune, indicating the gift of healing and great compassion.  He strikes me as having kind eyes.  In an interview in the Observer in March this year, he said:

“This week I’ve done brain surgery spinal surgery, elbow surgery, knee surgery and a fracture that took 14 hours to fix.  By the end, everything ached.  I empathise with my patients, for sure.  You feel connected to the universe, helping to prolong the lives of animals.”

The Adventurer

Olivia de Bergerac (b. 2/12/1950)

Olivia is the author of a book titled “The Dolphin Within – Awakening Human Potential” published in 1998.  As the title suggests, she has done extensive work with dolphins in the wild.  Early in the book, she identifies herself:

“I was on the bow deck, watching for dolphins, when I reconnected with a very important part in me: the adventurer.  This part will not die, despite my job as a management consultant. As soon as I am on a boat a little voice says, ‘you belong to this world’.”

Her pathway with sea creatures is well accentuated in her chart, with Jupiter (her ruling planet) sextile Neptune (spelling success with creatures of the sea), and two more key aspects to Neptune: Neptune sextile Pluto, and Neptune exactly sextile the North Node (depicting the involvement of her karmic mission).

In her glossary at the end of her book, she offers her own take on a definition of Archetype:

“The perfect prototype.  Once created, all things and beings evolve towards the perfection of their archetype.  We call the archetype of each individual their ‘full potential’, or their ‘Dolphin Within’. “

Olivia sees humans in terms of four Archetypes.  In her system, she divides people into four types: Seahorses, Dolphins, Turtles and Sharks.

Two Comedians

Martin Clunes (b. 28/11/1961)

Comedy actor Martin Clunes has the Sun conjunct Mars in Sagittarius, and has an association with horses and dogs (Mars rules dogs in general; Sagittarius more specifically large dogs).  His family run a farm with heavy horses.  He is also president of the British Horse Society. He also has the Sun sextile Jupiter, enhancing his various Sagittarian functions (such as the love of animals).  As a character, his creation of the long running Doc Martin, is a firm favourite, at least in my household.  His earlier alter ego was in a duo with Neil Morrisey in Men Behaving Badly – well he can use the excuse that he has Mars exactly square Pluto in his birth chart!  He is also well travelled.  When asked in the Observer:

“If you could go back in time, where would you go?”

He replied: “To the height of the horse-drawn era”…

Miranda Hart – (b. 14/12/1972)

Comedian Miranda has Mercury, Neptune and the Sun in Sagittarius.  Physically, she has the clumsiness associated with Sagittarius, which gives rise to a slapstick humour.  She also has the physique of a classic Sagittarian, normally seen with Sag rising.  As a Sagittarian, I identify as a Clutz!  I have recently been enjoying old re-runs of Not Going Out, in which Miranda plays a cleaning lady who doesn’t really do any cleaning!  The phase of life associated with Jupiter and Sagittarius is mid life, and she recently announced that she secretly married, in her early 50s.  The relationship may have developed through her Chiron Return (the development of the Inner Healer), and she married when Chiron was trine her natal Sun and the North Node (karma) was trine her natal Neptune (spiritual harmony).  This seemed to trigger a new blossoming in her public profile, together with a new book “I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You” on the wisdom she garnered in her years of struggle when she was more withdrawn.

Two Storytellers

Edna O’ Brien (15/12/30 – 27/7/24)

The Irish novelist Edna O’Brien had Neptune on the Ascendant, giving her a rich imagination.  She had just the Sun in Sag in her 4^th House, so was very much travelling in her mind from the home.  With Mercury opposite Jupiter, she was travelling different ways.

I wrote about her when she died last year: “We have the luxury of a birth time for Edna, and can therefore give the signature of her chart as Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Scorpio and Ascendant in Virgo.  With 0 planets in Air signs, she very much operated on instinct.  Her birth chart tells us she was a leader and trailblazer of sorts (i.e. in her field) with 5 Cardinal planets and the Sun trine the North Node.“ She wrote about powerful and uncomfortable themes, with her ruling planet Jupiter conjunct Pluto.

Taylor Swift (b. 13/12/1989)

“No one is more influential when it comes to writing music today”.

~ National music Publishers’ Association, 2021

The stratospherically successful music artist Taylor Swift emphasizes the unlimited potential carried by the ever-expanding planetary principle of Jupiter!  She considers herself a storyteller, and is drawn to the storytelling aspect of country music.  She has stated that she owed her self-confidence and her “fascination with writing and storytelling” to her mother who encouraged her in preparing for school presentations in childhood.

I wrote in 2024:

“She has the Sun in Sagittarius, but unaspected, making her very individualistic. An exception is a karmic sextile to her Sun from the North Node, so she may be driven by destiny.  She has a fascination for storytelling, and one of the Archetypes for Sagittarius is The Storyteller.  Venus is also unaspected, making her a free spirit in terms of relationship… Mercury is opposite Jupiter [like Edna O’Brien: perhaps a feature of the Storyteller], giving her an interesting breadth of mind”

Philosopher Archetype

Jonathan Cainer (18/12/57 – 2/5/2016)

‘We’re not here for long. So make the most of every moment’

~ his Sagittarian forecast on the day he died

I wrote about the Astrologer’s chart and philosophy in 2016, when he died:

“Jonathan practised Transcendental Meditation, and his style of forecasting was primarily through Philosophy.  He would write a philosophical piece for each sign based on the psychology of the sign, and people often identified with it.  Jupiter and Sagittarius are associated with Philosophy.

Mercury was sextile the North Node in his chart, so he had an understanding of the workings of karma.  Mercury was Retrograde in Capricorn in his 1st House, and he is quoted as saying of Mercury in Capricorn that it “blesses you with the ability to sound like you know what you’re talking about even when you’re spouting rubbish”.  Pluto in 9th House also lent depth to his readings.

He was an optimist, and that buoyed up his readership.  Any eclipse or special transit was always treated as the best thing since sliced bread, and he always put a positive spin on it.”

His Sagittarian credentials were immaculate:

“Jonathan had an incredibly Jupiterian birth chart.  His Sun at 26 degrees Sagittarius was exactly conjunct the powerhouse of the Galactic Centre.  It was exactly sextile the ruling planet of Sagittarius, Jupiter at 26 degrees Libra, and Mars lay at their midpoint, at 26 degrees Scorpio.  This represented a huge resource of energy, with Mars enabling him to make the most use of his Sun-Jupiter sextile.  His Ascendant was also in Sagittarius (thus he was a double Sagittarian), and 1 degree away from the Sun.  A Jupiterian powerhouse of a chart.  Two of the principles associated with Jupiter and Sagittarius are expansion, and luck. As well as being the ruler of his Sun sign and Ascendant, Jupiter was also conjunct his Midheaven (Careerpoint) bringing him lucky opportunities.”

You may notice that with your Sagittarian family, friends and acquaintances, some of them have more than one of these Archetypes.  While the Sun is in Sagittarius (until 21^st December), you can connect with your own Sagittarian Archetypes, or Jupiterian qualities if you do not have any Sagittarian planets, and explore their potential.  Sagittarians like to look at the bigger picture, so if you are feeling stuck in an introspective bubble, seek out a Sagittarian!

Aspects

This afternoon, Mercury trines Saturn.  This combines mental work with practicality, and brings focus and realism to the mental activities.  So it is a good day for making plans.  Serious conversations can also safely take place under this aspect

On Tuesday (9^th) Saturn squares Mars (in the first hour of the day, so you could experience this on Monday evening).  This can bring awkwardness – for example, physically you may want to push an issue, but that approach may not work.  Think before you act, to avoid clumsiness (especially if you are a Sagittarian!).  It may be difficult to obtain co-operation (e.g. on worldwide climate agreements).  You may experience fatigue, including compassion fatigue, discouragement, and a feeling of not having accomplished all you set out to do.  Honour your own pace.

Neptune is Stationary prior to going Direct on Wednesday (10^th).  If you have felt confused of late, there is a chance for more clarity, certainty, inspiration and spirituality.  If  you felt your feet were treading water, then your  path could be on surer ground.  It is an opportunity to fine-tune relationships, art, or spiritual practices.  After the turnaround has been achieved you may detect greater flow and movement.  Interactions may be subtle, but subtlety can be powerful.

In the evening (while Neptune is still turning…) Uranus opposes Mercury.  This could be tricky for communications, such as I.T.  Social media could be a bit fraught!  A spanner could enter into the works.  But if you are tuned into a higher mental wavelength, e.g. that of telepathy, you may achieve progress and flow.   Outages can occur, but so can remedial action when expert help is sought.

On to Thursday (11^th), when the Nodal Axis squares Venus.  This  square challenges us to take note of the karma of personal relationships, and group dynamics.  You may work with past life patterns, or present life practicalities.

An easier influence on the same day is Mercury trine Neptune.  This aspect brings the possibility of mysteries being solved, e.g. around health conditions.  In personal applications, things may fall into place spiritually, and you may be ready to talk about a sensitive subject.  This trine brings mental inspiration, transcendent wisdom, higher harmony, spiritual journeys, and insight.  A small kindness can bring about significant mental healing.

We end the week with a sextile between Mercury and Pluto on Saturday (13^th).  You could make real progress under this aspect.  This aspect can produce profound thought and communication,  honouring the gravity of a situation if necessary, and enabling meaningful debate to occur.  If you have something important lined up, you may be successful in getting your point across.

The week in bullet points:

• Today – knuckling down to work
• Tuesday – clumsiness
• Wednesday – some clarity; some mis-communication
• Thursday – personal karma; spiritual insight
• Saturday – profound communication