HD · first trade · 1981
Home Depot is a Virgo
A chart that fixes, sorts and improves the thing nobody asked about. Home Depot is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Consumer Discretionary.
The birth certificate
Home Depot's first trade was on Tuesday, September 22, 1981. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and HD gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Virgo, 29 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Cancer, last quarter |
| Mercury | Libra |
| Venus | Scorpio |
| Mars | Leo |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Libra |
| Element and quality | Earth, Mutable |
| Life Path | 5 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Rooster, Yin Water |
| Archetype | The Live Wire |
Sun in Virgo
The Sun sat in late Virgo (29 degrees in). Virgo is the maiden with the wheat, ruled by Mercury: a sign that fixes, sorts and improves the thing nobody asked about. For Home Depot that reads as a character that has a checklist for the checklist, and one that cannot leave a typo alone, including other people's.
Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. Virgo is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, HD is earth and mutable.
The rest of the sky
Moon in Cancer: the mood that is at its happiest at home, which is the Moon in its own sign. Phase: a last quarter Moon, half lit and shrinking, read as a time of letting go of the old version. And Mercury in Libra, Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Leo, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Libra, for completeness.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 5: the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same. In BaZi, 1981 gives a Metal Rooster year, precise, proud and up before everyone, and a Day Master of Yin Water, where water finds the way around whatever is in front of it.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Home Depot" reduces to Expression 11/2 (a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 22/4; only its consonants for a Personality of 7.
HD as a person
If Home Depot typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Live Wire. 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 Home Depot's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on September 22, 1981, Home Depot is a Virgo, with its Moon in Cancer and Life Path 5.
When was HD born?
September 22, 1981, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict HD?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. HD's chart is a character sketch.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart