ITW · first trade · 1973
Illinois Tool Works is a Pisces
A chart that imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. Illinois Tool Works is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Industrials.
The birth certificate
Illinois Tool Works's first trade was on Tuesday, March 13, 1973. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Pisces, 22 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Cancer, first quarter |
| Mercury | Pisces |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Aquarius |
| Saturn | Gemini |
| Element and quality | Water, Mutable |
| Life Path | 9 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Ox, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Sniper |
Sun in Pisces
On that date the Sun was in late Pisces (22 degrees in), so ITW is a Pisces. In the tradition that is the two fish, which imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. It also swims in two directions and calls it strategy, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. Pisces is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, ITW is water and mutable.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what Illinois Tool Works does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Cancer, which is at its happiest at home, which is the Moon in its own sign. Sky notes for the record: a first quarter Moon, half lit and growing, the phase tradition reads as a push through resistance; Mercury in Pisces, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius and Saturn in Gemini.
The numbers
Reduce March 13, 1973 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once. Chinese astrology files ITW under a Water 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. "Illinois Tool Works" reduces to Expression 4 (the builder, who trusts a process more than a person). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 6; only its consonants for a Personality of 7.
ITW as a person
If Illinois Tool Works typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Sniper. 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 Illinois Tool Works's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on March 13, 1973, Illinois Tool Works is a Pisces, with its Moon in Cancer and Life Path 9.
When was ITW born?
March 13, 1973, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict ITW?
No. Illinois Tool Works's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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