AAPL · IPO · 1980
Apple is a Sagittarius
A chart that announces the destination before checking the map. Apple is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Apple first traded as a public company on Friday, December 12, 1980, the day of its IPO. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Sagittarius, 20 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aquarius, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Sagittarius |
| Venus | Scorpio |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Libra |
| Element and quality | Fire, Mutable |
| Life Path | 6 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Monkey, Yin Earth |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Sagittarius
The Sun sat in late Sagittarius (20 degrees in). Sagittarius is the archer, ruled by Jupiter: a sign that aims far, travels widely and promises big. For Apple that reads as a character that announces the destination before checking the map, and one that is optimistic in a way that needs supervision.
Its element is Fire. Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Its quality is mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
AAPL's Moon is in Aquarius, a placement that feels things at a slight, scientific distance. The phase was a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. Further out: Mercury in Sagittarius, Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Libra.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 6: the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not. In BaZi, 1980 gives a Metal Monkey year, clever, playful and always three ideas ahead, and a Day Master of Yin Earth, where earth holds everything up and hates being rushed.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Apple" is Expression 5, the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same, with Soul Urge 6 and Personality 8.
AAPL as a person
The reveal names people by letting seven traditions vote on four questions: move first or wait, this year or the next ten, one thing or many, out loud or in private. Run AAPL's birth date through it and the tally says The Vault.
We wrote the long version: Apple Is a Sagittarius, Which Explains the Keynotes.
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Questions people ask
What is Apple's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on December 12, 1980, Apple is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Aquarius and Life Path 6.
When was AAPL born?
December 12, 1980, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict AAPL?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. AAPL's chart is a character sketch.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart