BBY · first trade · 1985
Best Buy is an Aries
A chart that goes first and reads the manual later. Best Buy is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Consumer Discretionary.
The birth certificate
Best Buy's first trade was on Thursday, April 18, 1985. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Aries, 28 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, new Moon |
| Mercury | Aries |
| Venus | Aries |
| Mars | Taurus |
| Jupiter | Aquarius |
| Saturn | Scorpio |
| Element and quality | Fire, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 9 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Ox, Yin Fire |
| Archetype | The Long Bet |
Sun in Aries
BBY has its Sun in late Aries (28 degrees in), the sign of the ram. Tradition says Aries goes first and reads the manual later, and gives it Mars as its ruler. The less flattering half: it mistakes speed for a plan about once a quarter.
Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Aries is also cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first. Put together, BBY is fire and cardinal.
The rest of the sky
Moon in Aries: the mood that feels things instantly and is over them by lunch. Phase: a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate. And Mercury in Aries, Venus in Aries, Mars in Taurus, Jupiter in Aquarius and Saturn in Scorpio, for completeness.
The numbers
Numerology gives Best Buy Life Path 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once. The Chinese calendar gives it a Wood Ox year (steady, strong and unimpressed by hurry), and its Day Master, the element of the day itself, is Yin Fire: fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Best Buy" reduces to Expression 22/4 (a master number, the master builder with plans at the scale of cities). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 8; only its consonants for a Personality of 5.
BBY as a person
If Best Buy typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Long Bet. That is the same engine, the same seven traditions and the same four questions a person gets.
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Questions people ask
What is Best Buy's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on April 18, 1985, Best Buy is an Aries, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 9.
When was BBY born?
April 18, 1985, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict BBY?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. BBY'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