November 20 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
The short answer
People born on November 20 are Scorpio. On this date the Sun sits between 26.8° Scorpio and 29.1° Scorpio in every year from 1950 to 2025, in the third decan of Scorpio.
November 20 at a glance
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio (October 23 to November 21) |
|---|---|
| Sun position, 1950 to 2025 | 26.8° Scorpio to 29.1° Scorpio (usually 28.0° Scorpio at noon UTC) |
| Decan | third decan of Scorpio: Cancer (triplicity), Venus (Chaldean), Seven of Cups (Golden Dawn) |
| Element | Water |
| Modality | Fixed |
| Ruling planet | Pluto, traditionally Mars |
| Nearest sign change | About 0.9 days away |
What a November 20 birthday means
On November 20 the Sun sits between 26.8° Scorpio and 29.1° Scorpio in every year from 1950 to 2025, counting every hour of the day in UTC. Its usual noon position is 28.0° Scorpio.
That places November 20 in the third decan of Scorpio. The modern triplicity system gives this decan to Cancer, the older Chaldean order gives it to Venus, and the Golden Dawn tradition pairs it with the Seven of Cups.
Scorpio is a water sign of the fixed modality, ruled by Pluto. Water signs read the mood first; feeling is how they know what is true. Fixed signs hold steady: each one sits in the middle of a season.
November 20 sits close to the boundary between Scorpio and Sagittarius, about 0.9 days away, but in every year charted the Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of this date.
When the Sun changes sign around November 20
Across 1950 to 2025, the Sun entered Sagittarius on these dates (UTC):
- November 21: 6 years
- November 22: 65 years
- November 23: 5 years
If you were born near the change, your birth year and time decide your sign: cast your free birth chart to see it.
Where these figures come from
The Sun's position was charted at 12:00 UTC on every day from 1950 to 2025, and the start and end of each date were placed on the straight line between neighbouring days, which is exact to a small fraction of a degree. The range covers every hour of November 20 in UTC across all 76 years; someone born far from UTC can sit up to about half a degree beyond it. Decans follow two traditional systems: the triplicity system, which gives each third of a sign to the three signs of its element in turn, and the older Chaldean order of faces, which runs through the seven classical planets from Mars at the start of Aries.
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