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EL · first trade · 1995

Estee Lauder is a Scorpio

A chart that goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. Estee Lauder is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Consumer Staples.

The birth certificate

Estee Lauder's first trade was on Friday, November 17, 1995. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and EL gets a chart like anyone else.

Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.

Sun signScorpio, 24 degrees
Moon signVirgo, waning crescent
MercuryScorpio
VenusSagittarius
MarsSagittarius
JupiterSagittarius
SaturnPisces
Element and qualityWater, Fixed
Life Path7
BaZi year and Day MasterWood Pig, Yang Water
ArchetypeThe Vault

Sun in Scorpio

The Sun sat in late Scorpio (24 degrees in). Scorpio is the scorpion, ruled by Mars and Pluto: a sign that goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. For Estee Lauder that reads as a character that reads the footnotes and then the footnotes' sources, and one that holds a grudge like a long position.

Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. Scorpio is also fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge. Put together, EL is water and fixed.

The rest of the sky

The Moon was in Virgo, which calms down by tidying something. It was a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation. The rest of the sky that day: Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Sagittarius, Mars in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Sagittarius and Saturn in Pisces.

The numbers

Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 7: the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. In BaZi, 1995 gives a Wood Pig year, generous, easygoing and good at enjoying things, and a Day Master of Yang Water, where water finds the way around whatever is in front of it.

Dates are given; names are picked. "Estee Lauder" reduces to Expression 7 (the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 6; only its consonants for a Personality of 1.

EL as a person

If Estee Lauder 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 Estee Lauder's zodiac sign?

By its first trade on November 17, 1995, Estee Lauder is a Scorpio, with its Moon in Virgo and Life Path 7.

When was EL born?

November 17, 1995, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.

Can astrology predict EL?

No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.

A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart