BTC · genesis block timestamp · 2009
Bitcoin is a Capricorn
A chart that climbs, one ledge at a time, for decades. Bitcoin is a network rather than a company, so its birthday is the day its first block or mainnet went live.
The birth certificate
Bitcoin went live on Saturday, January 3, 2009. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: the launch timestamp in our hand-checked asset registry.
| Sun sign | Capricorn, 13 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, first quarter |
| Mercury | Aquarius |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Capricorn |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Earth, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 6 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Rat, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Capricorn
On that date the Sun was in the middle of Capricorn (13 degrees in), so BTC is a Capricorn. In the tradition that is the sea goat, which climbs, one ledge at a time, for decades. It also schedules fun and then reschedules it, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Cardinal Earth: that is the short version of Bitcoin. The long version is that the sign is cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first, and that earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Aries here, and a Moon in Aries feels things instantly and is over them by lunch. It was a first quarter Moon, half lit and growing, the phase tradition reads as a push through resistance. The planets: Mercury in Aquarius, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo.
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, 2009 gives an Earth Rat year, quick, resourceful and first to the food, and a Day Master of Yang Earth, where earth holds everything up and hates being rushed.
The name gets a vote too. "Bitcoin" adds up to an Expression number of 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 6 and its Personality (consonants only) is 3.
BTC as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given Bitcoin's birth date, it returns The Vault.
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Questions people ask
What is Bitcoin's zodiac sign?
By its launch on January 3, 2009, Bitcoin is a Capricorn, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 6.
When was BTC born?
January 3, 2009, according to the launch timestamp in our hand-checked asset registry.
Can astrology predict BTC?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart