Sagittarius · Dog
Coyote
“Run out of every town, and now living in all of them.”
The Coyote is the Ancient Zodiac sign for a Sagittarius born in the Year of the Dog, the point where the Sagittarius sun meets the Dog moon.
The Sagittarius-Dog, known as the Coyote, is honesty, humour and an absolute refusal to be got rid of. Sagittarius brings wanderlust, optimism, and a bluntness that arrives before the tact does. The Dog brings loyalty and a working conscience. Together they make someone funny, principled, adaptable, and much harder to discourage than anyone planning around them expects. In the stories told across much of North America, Coyote is the trickster: the one who breaks the rules, gets it wrong, gets it spectacularly right, and teaches by both. The living animal has been just as difficult to write off. A century of trapping, poisoning and bounties was aimed at eliminating it, and the coyote responded by expanding across the entire continent, because pressure on the population triggers larger litters and earlier breeding. It now lives in every major city on the map, including inside their downtowns. Sagittarius-Dogs land on their feet in places nobody sent them. They say the unwelcome thing, keep their promises, laugh at their own disasters, and make friends in any territory. The risk is a life of restarts: an instinct to move on when a place turns hostile, when staying and arguing would have settled it once. The name fits because a coyote is the survivor everyone underestimated and nobody managed to remove. It is loyal to its family, absurd on purpose, and it did not merely outlast the campaign against it. It moved into the city that ran the campaign.
Coyote Birth Dates
You are the Coyote if you were born in one of these stretches, when the Sun was in Sagittarius during a year of the Dog.
- November 22 to December 21, 1922
- November 22 to December 21, 1934
- November 22 to December 21, 1946
- November 22 to December 21, 1958
- November 22 to December 21, 1970
- November 22 to December 21, 1982
- November 22 to December 21, 1994
- November 22 to December 21, 2006
- November 22 to December 21, 2018
- November 22 to December 21, 2030
- November 22 to December 21, 2042
Sagittarius
“Aimed at the far thing, and honest about it on the way.”
Sagittarius is mutable fire ruled by Jupiter, the sign of travel, philosophy and the unedited opinion. It wants range: more countries, more books, more arguments worth having, and it is genuinely optimistic in a way that survives evidence. The bluntness that comes with it is not unkindness, it is a nature that finds the diplomatic version slower than the true one. The archer is usually identified as Chiron, the centaur who was nothing like the rest of his kind: a scholar and physician who taught Achilles, Jason and Asclepius. Struck by an arrow that could not be healed, and immortal, he was left with a wound that would never close and no way to die of it, so he gave his immortality away and was placed in the stars. And the bow points somewhere specific. Directly behind Sagittarius lies the centre of our galaxy, so the arrow is aimed straight at the heart of everything we belong to, which no other sign can claim. A Sagittarius is the friend who tells you the truth about your relationship, arrives back from somewhere with three new obsessions, and treats a setback as material. They are generous, funny and hard to keep in one place. The cost is the arrow's flight: always aimed further out, rarely at what is in the room, and a candour that can leave real damage behind while the archer has already moved on.
Polarity: positive · Modality: mutable · Element: fire · Ruler: Jupiter
Dog
“Best swimmer in the race, and stopped for a wash.”
The Dog is loyalty, honesty and a working sense of justice. It defends the people it has taken on, says the awkward true thing rather than the comfortable one, and holds a standard of fairness that it applies to itself first. Anxious under the surface, steady on it, and almost impossible to buy. Its finish is the funniest result in the story and the most revealing. The Dog was the strongest swimmer in the field and should have placed near the front. Instead it treated the river as the best water it had seen in weeks, stopped partway to bathe and play, and wandered in eleventh, second to last, having beaten almost nobody. The Jade Emperor asked what had happened, and the answer amounted to the river being too good to hurry through. Nothing about it was laziness. The Dog simply did not think winning was the point of a river. Dog people are the friends who turn up, defend the absent, and remember who was kind. They are principled, funny, and quietly worried about more things than they let on. The cost is the distraction on the crossing: a nature that will not optimise its own position, and that watches less deserving people finish ahead of it with a mixture of genuine indifference and a grievance it insists it does not have.
Polarity: yang · Direction: west · Element: earth
Zodiac Interplay
Polarity: Solar Noon
Both engines pointed the same way: forward.
Your solar half leans out toward the world and your lunar half pushes from behind, so there is no internal committee meeting before you act. You are the one saying "let's just go" while everyone else is still reading the reviews, and you are usually already halfway there by the time they agree.
Modality and Direction: Quicksilver
Fast, fluid, and weirdly precise about it.
Flexible energy with western exactness. You improvise, but you improvise accurately - you can rebuild the approach mid-sentence and still land on the detail nobody else had spotted.
Elemental Cycle: Lava
Molten rock. It moves, then it becomes the ground.
Solar fire carried in a lunar earth vessel. Your passion is not vapour - it cools into something you can stand on, which is why your enthusiasms leave permanent geography behind them.
Generating. Fire feeds earth. Your Sagittarius half is the fuel and your Dog half is what it becomes.
Coyote Best Matches
- Coyote and Moose: Total Eclipse, 98 out of 100
- Coyote and Satyr: Total Eclipse, 98 out of 100
- Coyote and Cougar: Total Eclipse, 95 out of 100
Coyote Hardest Matches
- Coyote and Lobster: Night Crossing, 37 out of 100
- Coyote and Elephant: Night Crossing, 37 out of 100
- Coyote and Siren: Night Crossing, 39 out of 100
Other Sagittarius Signs
The eleven other signs a Sagittarius can be, one for each remaining year of the Chinese zodiac. Same sun, different moon.
Other Dog Signs
The eleven other signs someone born in a year of the Dog can be, one for each remaining sun sign. Same moon, different sun.
