Eye on the Horizon- Goal Setting for Sagittarius

Photo Credit: Jo Tracey

See that line out there in the distance? That’s the horizon...and if you have the Sun in Sagittarius, the horizon is generally where you will be aiming to get to. But, especially if you are a Sagittarius (or have Sagittarius on the Midheaven), there are so many interesting deviations along the way.

Along the way you may be distracted by islands, mountains, little roads that send you into a village that doesn’t exist on any map you have previously seen, but was so worth the side trip. All of this means that goals- when you can be bothered to make them- become moving targets with a scope that varies widely.

This isn’t the same scope creep that Gemini likes- where things are constantly added to the detail as the detail emerges. This is mega scope creep- where the entire direction, end point and critical to quality items are completely changed. This is scope creep where the original destination is now unrecognisable. It is sort of like starting off for Bali and ending up in New Zealand. They are both really great places to visit, but an entirely different result.

This is so not how the project management textbooks tell you to do it (well, that is not how they would tell you if you had bothered to read them…), but somehow, someway, it very often works. Why? Simply because:

It doesn’t occur to you that it won’t. Your faith is such that the glass is always half full and the party always about to start and the plane always about to take off. What can possibly go wrong? How hard can it be? How high is the sky?

Your optimism is such that everyone around you finds themselves drawn into your dreams. If you are really lucky amongst your followers will be at least one Gemini or one Virgo who can help you grasp the detail.

One of the most wonderful things about Sagittarius is their ability to focus on the big picture, but from a goal achievement viewpoint, this is also their most frustrating. In order to achieve, Sag needs to get in touch with his Gemini opposite and check out the details...just enough to every so often make sure that they are on the right flight going to the right destination- Mount Cook is gorgeous (as you can see by the photo), but an entirely different sort of gorgeous to Legian Beach- and with a lot more snow. Get my drift?