APA · first trade · 1979
APA Corporation is a Taurus
A chart that builds slowly and then refuses to move. APA Corporation is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Energy.
The birth certificate
APA Corporation's first trade was on Tuesday, May 15, 1979. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and APA gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Taurus, 24 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Capricorn, waning gibbous |
| Mercury | Taurus |
| Venus | Aries |
| Mars | Aries |
| Jupiter | Leo |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Earth, Fixed |
| Life Path | 1 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Goat, Yang Water |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Taurus
The Sun sat in late Taurus (24 degrees in). Taurus is the bull, ruled by Venus: a sign that builds slowly and then refuses to move. For APA Corporation that reads as a character that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for, and one that calls stubbornness patience and is right about half the time.
Fixed Earth: that is the short version of APA Corporation. The long version is that the sign is fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge, and that earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works.
The rest of the sky
APA's Moon is in Capricorn, a placement that keeps its feelings in a well-organised filing cabinet. The phase was a waning gibbous Moon, just past full, the phase of sharing what was learned. Further out: Mercury in Taurus, Venus in Aries, Mars in Aries, Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Virgo.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Earth Goat, gentle, creative and fond of comfort, and the day Yang Water, because water finds the way around whatever is in front of it. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted.
The name gets a vote too. "APA Corporation" adds up to an Expression number of 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 3 and its Personality (consonants only) is 6.
APA as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given APA Corporation's birth date, it returns The Founder.
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Questions people ask
What is APA Corporation's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on May 15, 1979, APA Corporation is a Taurus, with its Moon in Capricorn and Life Path 1.
When was APA born?
May 15, 1979, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict APA?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
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