EBAY · first trade · 1998
eBay is a Libra
A chart that will redesign the logo before it picks a fight. eBay is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Consumer Discretionary.
The birth certificate
eBay's first trade was on Thursday, September 24, 1998. Financial astrology treats that moment as a birth and casts a chart for it, the same way it would for you.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Libra, 1 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Scorpio, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Libra |
| Venus | Virgo |
| Mars | Leo |
| Jupiter | Pisces |
| Saturn | Taurus |
| Element and quality | Air, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 6 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Tiger, Yang Wood |
| Archetype | The Empire Builder |
Sun in Libra
EBAY has its Sun in early Libra (1 degrees in), the sign of the scales. Tradition says Libra balances, negotiates and makes it look effortless, and gives it Venus as its ruler. The less flattering half: it takes a very long time to choose a restaurant.
As an element, Air. Air signs run on ideas: they connect, compare and talk it through. As a quality, Cardinal, which is the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. eBay has it in Scorpio, which feels everything and admits to none of it. That day brought a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum, with Mercury in Libra, Venus in Virgo, Mars in Leo, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Taurus.
The numbers
Life Path 6 for eBay, which numerology calls the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not. In BaZi terms: an Earth Tiger year (bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly) and a Yang Wood Day Master, because wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "eBay", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 6: the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 6, the consonants a Personality of 9.
EBAY as a person
Feed EBAY's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Empire Builder. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs eBay's
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Read EBAY against your own chart
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Questions people ask
What is eBay's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on September 24, 1998, eBay is a Libra, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 6.
When was EBAY born?
September 24, 1998, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict EBAY?
No. What a chart gives eBay is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
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