How to recognize SAGITTARIUS

I would say that finding an example of this sun sign is as easy as rolling off a log, except that it isn't true. It's much easier than rolling off a log. Pick any party and look at thr centre of the liveliest group. See that fellow sitting there happily with his rather foot stuck in his mouth? He's a Sagittarian who has just gone out on a verbal limb, but he doesn't know it yet. When he does, he'll look slightly bewildered and the group around him will be looking daggers.

The archer will walk up to you, give you a hearty slap on the back and awide, friendly grin. Then he'll greet you with a remark like, "How the heck do you manage to look so young when you're as old as you are? Or "say, that turtleneck sweater sure is flattering. You should wear them all the time. Hides your double chin. After one of these cheery openers, he'll still be wearing his bright grin, but your own smile may start to droop a little. It will take him a while to figure out just what he said that set you back on your heels, and even longer to understand why. Then he'll try to explain. Keep your cool. It gets worse.

Golly, didn't you understand what he meant? He thinks it's fabulous to look only twenty-five years old when you're really thirty-eight ( Which is six years older than you actually are) As for the double chin, lots of people your age have a little flab in the neck region. The only time you can see it is from the side. You know, when you turn your head. Just don't have any pictures taken in profile.

Their physical characteristics aren't heard to learn . Look for a fairly large, well-shaped skull and a high broad forehead. The features will be open and cheerful, inviting friendship and the exchange of ideas, and the movements will normally be rapid ( though you'll find a few who move slowly and deliberately) They will often make a wide, sweeping gestures. Which may be dramatic and vigorous but possibly not very graceful. Sagittarius can wave his arms to make a point and upset the ketchup. He'll stride purposefully forward, head high, and trip over the curbstone. His brief case may snap open at the same time, scattering his papers all over the street.

Jupiter eyes are as bright and alert as a sparrow's and they sparkle and twinkle with refreshing humor. The archers are either very tall and athletic looking or shorter than average, with strong, sturdy bodies. The tall ones will remind you of thoroughbred horses or spirited colts. In youth especially, many of them have a stray lock of hair which keeps falling over the forehead, like a horse's mane. They'll flip it back with a toss of the head or quick, unconscious movement of the hand- a habit that may last long after a new hairstyle has been adopted in maturity or after baldness has set in.

Sagittarians are normally restless. They hate to sit or stand still. The archer is physically conspicuous, if only through his obvious confidence and his disregard for conventional behavior. He walks as if he's really going somewhere. There's no halting or hesitating. ( But remember that a conflicting ascendant can slow down the gait) . When you first meet him, Sagittarius could be perched on a horse ot walking his dog. He loves animals passionately. Sagittarian with natal afflictions to the birth planets can have, instead, a morbid fear of animals, but it doesn't happen often. Ordinarily, people born under Jupiter's influence fear nothing. The typical Sagittarian is attracted to danger in sports and in his job or his hobby. An element of risk excites and challenges the archers. They love speed. Fast cars, planes-even roller coasters draw them magnetically. Daredevil test pilots are often Sagittatians. The average Jupiter person enjoys nothing more than a hairbreadth escape of some kind-either physical or emotional. It exhilarates them. They'll take a chance on literally anything ( unless a meeker sign on the ascendant dilutes Jupiter's daring)

There's a difference between the legendary bluntness of the archer and the brutal speech of the Scorpio. Scorpio tells the truth, completely conscious of its effect, but still refusing to compromise. Sagittarius is totally unaware of the effect when his direct honesty compels him to speak. Scorpio feels little compunction about the wounds his statement cause. To him, the truth is the truth, and if you can't bear to hear it, don't ask. The Jupiter person, on the other hand,is crushed and dismayed at his own lack of discretion when he discovers he's really cut you. It would be touching if it weren't so infuriating.

What is on the archer's mind and heart is almost instantly on his lips. He's as frank and earnest as a six year old. You can take that old advice, "If you want the truth, go to a child, and switch it to "if you want the truth, go to a Sagittarian."

There's a woman in the publishing business in New York about whom the same thing is said. "If you want the trutn, go to kay-if you can find stand it." Kay is not only authentic archer, she also has additional Sagittarius influences in her natal chart. A Jupiter girl plus, you might say. She's warm and generous, typical of the sign, and she has lots of loyal friends who love her, also typical of the sign. They would have to be loyal, and they would have to love her to survive incident like the three year ago when she opened her big heart and decided to completely outfit her secretary for the winter. The young girl was flat broke, since she had just been through a drizzly financial disaster, and she was touched to tears. Others had sympathized, but until Kay, no one had offered a concrete helping hand. Leave it to Sagittarius. (You can read that several ways.)

One fine day, the two of them set forth for Saks Fifth Avenue in a fever of excited female anticipation. The poor secretary was delirious with happiness-until they entered the elevator. Suddenly, the Sagittarian gave her a long, appraising look, and said quite loudly, "We'd better try the Fat girls department first."

Just after Kays warm. Generous excursion with her secretary, she cheered up her boss, the publisher, who had been on doctor's order not to drink for a year. One solid year. He had infectious hepatitis. No liquor. Not one drop. After going for twelve long months without even wetting his lips, he was justifiably proud of his will power. Kay, just freshly back from Europe, paid him a typical Sagittarian compliment. "About your drinking." She began, and she smiled, waiting. "I hear you've been trying to stay on the wagon." Trying? After twelve months without a single drop? Trying? As he recovered his composure, she went on. "Say, you know there's a party tomorrow night for joe's book?
I though I ought to warn you, but I never get to see you alone." Warn him? Warn him about what? The publisher forgot his chagrin under this new threat. She continued; "We were all hoping that, this is embarrassing but we are all hoping that you wouldn't spoil the party." By now, the publisher was speechless Not Sagittarius.

Then she noticed something else weird. Her boss's face it was purple. Suddenly contrite the friendly Sagittarian immediately apologized. :Gee, I hope I didn't sat the wrong thing. It won't matter how you behave anyway. Joe thinks you're really swell. He was just telling us all today that he's glad he decided to come to us even though his old agent had been against it. He can't understand why he's heard such awful things about you. I told him people were just jealous. Say, you don't look so hot. Are you sure your doctor knows what he's doing?" (There are rumors that Kay's boss went off the wagon that night, permanently.) The Sagittarian? Oh, she's happily helping new authors get over their nervousness at the same publishing company. Fired? He wouldn't dare fire her. As I said in the beginning, everybody loves her.

Few people can resent the archer for very long, because he's so transparently free of harmful intent. You'll see this lovable, likable, intelligent idealist almost anywhere or any time. You may catch him shooting out his careless arrows from your television screen some Sunday night, leaving his guest stars numb and speechless with astonishment at his frankness. He may be your cab driver some Monday, morning, the one who cheerfully explains to why you why he hates stingy tippers- or you could find him serving you in a restaurant some Friday evening, earnestly advising you not to order oysters because they're a little on the tired side.

Most of the time the typical Sagittarian is happy and gregarious, but his temper can flare like a sky rocket if he's pushed around by people who abuse his natural friendliness or who get too familiar. Rebellion against authority and stuffy society is also common. Sagittarius will never run away from a fight or call for help. The woman can lose their normally pleasant dispositions and let go with a barrage of unexpected plain talk that puts troublemakers right were they belong. The men will use their fists and scorn weapons. A rude, insulting person who has challenged Jupiter's good nature often find himself sprawied on the sidewalk wondering where that truck came from.

You'll always notice something child-like about the typical, naïve, brave, optimistic Sagittarian. He refuses to accept the seriousness of life, though some of them manage responsibility with conscientiousness in later years. Still, They're never truly happy when they're burdened by it. Jupiter natures rebel against confinement, and too much of it can bring on serious, illness. If the Sagittarian can survive that, and the wear and tear of scattering his energies, he'll live to be as Methuselah. Most archers retain their faculties, razor sharp and refined by age, to the end. Senility is almost never a problem.

His sensitive areas are the hips, lungs, liver, arms, hands, shoulders, intestines and feet. The Sagittarian love of sports and the outdoors may bring accidents through reckless over-activity. Hospital can rarely keep him bedded down more than a few days. He gives in to sickness reluctantly, and usually recuperates with amazing swiftness. Life seldom defeats these people permanently. They believe that tomorrow will surely be better than yesterday, and today is pretty interesting. Moody spells are gone almost before the clouds have a chance to obscure the sunshine.

Every Sagittarian is something of a gambler, unless there's a cautious, conservative influence in the natal chart. Very few of them can resist throwing a couple of bills on the green felt. The sound of dice rattling in the dealer's hand attracts some Jupiter men and women like the siren songs of Circe. With adverse aspects between the planets at birth, an archer can gamble away a fortune, or throw the rent money on the nose of a favorite horse. Las Vegas attracts Sagittarian like sugar attracts flies. So do the more staid gambles of the stock market and real estate. Fortunately, the majority of them keep the urge to speculate under control, but even these will risk a few dollars now and then on a fast poker game or a lottery ticket.

Sagittarians have a tendency to go off on tangents. The archer will take on a great cause with blind devotion and believe that the possibilities outweigh the shortcomings, an attitude that results from his brilliant imagination and progressive thinking. He never fails to present his case with cool, reasonable arguments, sometimes cutting the opposition to ribbons with sharp satire, and yet remaining aloof from the fray, somehow. The fire is always ready to leap forth, however, when anyone unfairly attacks his miracle or his cause of the moment. He's formidable foe, because he aims straight when he takes the time to focus on the victim. His arrows then rarely miss their mark. They're dipped in clever wit and sharp enough to pierce the strongest armor.

Although Sagittarians have fantastic memories that tell them exactly what they said and where they were on April 14, 1939, and they remember every detail of books and movies, they can forget where they left their coats. Most of them are constantly losing gloves, car keys ,wallets and some people are unkind enough to say they would lose their heads if they weren't fastened on their necks.

A Sagittarian can never successfully tell a lie. No one believes him for a minute. Deceit is unnatural to the archer, and when he tries to dabble in it, the exposure is usually swift and sure. He's always better off to stick to the truth and let the chips fall where they may. Even his observant, highly aware mind won't rescue him from the result of an excursion into deception unless he has Scorpio rising. I know a secretive archer who has such a Pluto ascendant and therefore manages very well to play a good chess game. This kind of a Jupiter person is an exception, but be prepared to meet a few.

To the Sagittarian, life is secretly a circus, and he's the clown, rolling and tumbling through purple hoops in a sky -blue suit, His face is smeared with the bright, gay colors of greasepaint, and his eyes glitter with curiosity and fun. As the music of the calliope gets louder, he stumbles and falls, then executes a perfect somersault on the back of a prancing pony. On his fingers he wears three turquoise rings; on his toes are bells that ring like the chimes in a distant church spire that disappears into the clouds. The archer happily blows a lustrous tin horn, made of the soft, ,malleable metal that's barely affected by moisture. Whether he's bold or backward, the true nature of this generous idealist is as merry as the Christmas holly berry. Bravely, he pins a large carnation over his big heart, and curves his bow toward the sky. When he aims straight he shoot higher than man can see-past the stars to the place where all dreams are really born.

Famous Sagittarius Personalities

Beethoven, Julie Harris, Arthur Brisbane, Pope John XXIII, Maria Callas, Mary Martin, Andrew Carnegie, David Merrick, Winston Churchill, Frank Sinatra, Lillian Russell, Walt Disney, Grimaldi, James Thurber, Betty Grable.