Born on December 22
Born on December 22: Capricorn or Sagittarius
On December 22, the Sun is in Capricorn: that is your Sun sign, the core of your identity, your vitality and the way you shine.
A cusp day: Capricorn or Sagittarius
On December 22, the Sun changes sign: over a century it is in Capricorn in 92% of years and in Sagittarius in 8%. Your birth year and time settle it, to the minute. Calculate your chart: it gives you the exact degree.
Your sign: Capricorn
With the Sun in Capricorn, you climb the mountain one step at a time, and you always arrive where you decided to go.
Saturn, master of time and structure, rules your Sun in Capricorn and gives you an identity built on responsibility, ambition and endurance. You were often mature before your years, aware very early that serious things are built with effort and patience. You don’t look for shortcuts: you look for what lasts. Someone with the Sun in Capricorn has a deep sense of duty and a rare ability to delay gratification for a bigger goal. You’re the person people lean on when things get serious, and your calm in difficulty inspires lasting respect.
Your decan: 1st decan of Capricorn
Saturn rules the first decan of Capricorn with no one to share the throne: you are the mountain climbed step by step, the will that never yields.
From about December 22 to 31, depending on the year and time of birth, the first decan of Capricorn concentrates the full power of Saturn. You’re the most Saturnian Capricorn: serious, structured, ambitious, with a sense of responsibility that has impressed people since childhood. You don’t look for ease but for solidity, and you’re ready to work for years to reach a summit worth reaching. Your patience is strategic, your reliability absolute, your maturity early. You build your life the way an architect builds a cathedral: methodically, and for the centuries.
The degree of the Sun
On December 22, the Sun sits between 0° and 1° Capricorn depending on the birth year. Every degree has its own colour: decan, dwad, term, sometimes a fixed star. Read yours:
Your solar return
Every year around December 22, the Sun returns to the exact degree of your birth: that is your solar return, the chart of your year, from birthday to birthday. Calculate it for free (date, time and place of birth), then, if you want the full reading, have it read.
And the rising sign, the Moon, the houses?
The Sun sign is not the whole story. Your rising sign changes every two hours, the Moon changes sign every two and a half days, and the houses depend on the place. With your birth time and city, the free calculation gives you all of it in 30 seconds.
Frequently asked questions
What is the zodiac sign of someone born on December 22?
December 22 is a cusp day: the Sun is in Capricorn in 92% of years and in Sagittarius in 8%. Only the birth year and time can settle it, by calculating the chart.
What is the decan of someone born on December 22?
The 1st decan of Capricorn, ruled by Saturn: it gives the sign a nuance of its own, described on the decan page.
How do I find my rising sign if I was born on December 22?
The rising sign depends on the time and place of birth, not only the date: it changes about every two hours. Enter your time and city in the free chart calculation.
What is the solar return of someone born on December 22?
The chart drawn at the moment the Sun returns, every year around December 22, to the exact degree of the birth. It describes the dynamic of the year that opens. The free calculator gives it, the year-ahead reading interprets it.