GOOGL · IPO · 2004
Alphabet is a Leo
A chart that would like the launch to have lighting. Alphabet is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Alphabet first traded as a public company on Thursday, August 19, 2004, the day of its IPO. Financial astrology treats that moment as a birth and casts a chart for it, the same way it would for you.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Leo, 26 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Libra, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Virgo |
| Venus | Cancer |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Virgo |
| Saturn | Cancer |
| Element and quality | Fire, Fixed |
| Life Path | 6 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Monkey, Yang Metal |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Leo
GOOGL has its Sun in late Leo (26 degrees in), the sign of the lion. Tradition says Leo performs, and wants the room to notice, and gives it the Sun as its ruler. The less flattering half: it hears silence as a review.
As an element, Fire. Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. As a quality, Fixed, which is the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge.
The rest of the sky
GOOGL's Moon is in Libra, a placement that needs the room to like each other. The phase was a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. Further out: Mercury in Virgo, Venus in Cancer, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Virgo and Saturn in Cancer.
The numbers
Life Path 6 for Alphabet, which numerology calls the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not. In BaZi terms: a Wood Monkey year (clever, playful and always three ideas ahead) and a Yang Metal Day Master, because metal cuts, refines and keeps its edges sharp.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Alphabet", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 11/2: a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 7, the consonants a Personality of 22/4.
GOOGL as a person
Feed GOOGL's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Vault. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs Alphabet's
Put in your birthday and see how your chart gets on with GOOGL's, plus the next day tradition marks for the two of you.
Read GOOGL against your own chart
It starts with yours (free, about a minute, no card). After that, Read Anything puts GOOGL next to it.
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Its neighbours
Questions people ask
What is Alphabet's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on August 19, 2004, Alphabet is a Leo, with its Moon in Libra and Life Path 6.
When was GOOGL born?
August 19, 2004, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict GOOGL?
No. What a chart gives Alphabet is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart