BRK.B · class B introduced · 1996
Berkshire Hathaway Class B is a Taurus
A chart that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for. Berkshire Hathaway Class B is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Berkshire Hathaway Class B's class B introduced was on Thursday, May 9, 1996. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Taurus, 19 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aquarius, last quarter |
| Mercury | Taurus |
| Venus | Gemini |
| Mars | Taurus |
| Jupiter | Capricorn |
| Saturn | Aries |
| Element and quality | Earth, Fixed |
| Life Path | 3 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Rat, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Opportunist |
Sun in Taurus
On that date the Sun was in the middle of Taurus (19 degrees in), so BRK.B is a Taurus. In the tradition that is the bull, which builds slowly and then refuses to move. It also calls stubbornness patience and is right about half the time, which is less often put in the prospectus.
As an element, Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. As a quality, Fixed, which is the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Aquarius here, and a Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight, scientific distance. It was a last quarter Moon, half lit and shrinking, read as a time of letting go of the old version. The planets: Mercury in Taurus, Venus in Gemini, Mars in Taurus, Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Aries.
The numbers
Reduce May 9, 1996 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 3, the talker, happiest with an audience. Chinese astrology files BRK.B under a Fire Rat year, quick, resourceful and first to the food, with a Day Master of Yang Fire: fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Berkshire Hathaway Class B", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 4: the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 5, the consonants a Personality of 8.
BRK.B as a person
Feed BRK.B's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Opportunist. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is Berkshire Hathaway Class B's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on May 9, 1996, Berkshire Hathaway Class B is a Taurus, with its Moon in Aquarius and Life Path 3.
When was BRK.B born?
May 9, 1996, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict BRK.B?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
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