COST · IPO · 1985
Costco is a Sagittarius
A chart that aims far, travels widely and promises big. Costco is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Costco first traded as a public company on Thursday, December 5, 1985, the day of its IPO. 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 | Sagittarius, 13 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Virgo, last quarter |
| Mercury | Scorpio |
| Venus | Sagittarius |
| Mars | Libra |
| Jupiter | Aquarius |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Fire, Mutable |
| Life Path | 4 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Ox, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Sagittarius
COST has its Sun in the middle of Sagittarius (13 degrees in), the sign of the archer. Tradition says Sagittarius aims far, travels widely and promises big, and gives it Jupiter as its ruler. The less flattering half: it is optimistic in a way that needs supervision.
Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Sagittarius is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, COST is fire and mutable.
The rest of the sky
COST's Moon is in Virgo, a placement that calms down by tidying something. The phase was a last quarter Moon, half lit and shrinking, read as a time of letting go of the old version. Further out: Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Sagittarius, Mars in Libra, Jupiter in Aquarius and Saturn in Sagittarius.
The numbers
Reduce December 5, 1985 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. Chinese astrology files COST under a Wood Ox year, steady, strong and unimpressed by hurry, with a Day Master of Yang Earth: earth holds everything up and hates being rushed.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Costco" reduces to Expression 3 (the talker, happiest with an audience). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 3; only its consonants for a Personality of 9.
COST as a person
If Costco typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Vault. 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 Costco's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on December 5, 1985, Costco is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Virgo and Life Path 4.
When was COST born?
December 5, 1985, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict COST?
No. What a chart gives Costco is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
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