JCI · first trade · 1987
Johnson Controls is a Libra
A chart that will redesign the logo before it picks a fight. Johnson Controls is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Industrials.
The birth certificate
Johnson Controls's first trade was on Monday, September 28, 1987. 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 | Libra, 4 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Sagittarius, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Libra |
| Venus | Libra |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Aries |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Air, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 8 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Rabbit, Yang Metal |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Libra
The Sun sat in early Libra (4 degrees in). Libra is the scales, ruled by Venus: a sign that balances, negotiates and makes it look effortless. For Johnson Controls that reads as a character that will redesign the logo before it picks a fight, and one that takes a very long time to choose a restaurant.
Its element is Air. Air signs run on ideas: they connect, compare and talk it through. Its quality is cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Sagittarius here, and a Moon in Sagittarius gets restless the moment things settle. It was a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. The planets: Mercury in Libra, Venus in Libra, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 8: the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power. In BaZi, 1987 gives a Fire Rabbit year, careful, diplomatic and quietly lucky, and a Day Master of Yang Metal, where metal cuts, refines and keeps its edges sharp.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Johnson Controls" is Expression 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person, with Soul Urge 6 and Personality 7.
JCI as a person
The reveal names people by letting seven traditions vote on four questions: move first or wait, this year or the next ten, one thing or many, out loud or in private. Run JCI's birth date through it and the tally says The Founder.
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Questions people ask
What is Johnson Controls's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on September 28, 1987, Johnson Controls is a Libra, with its Moon in Sagittarius and Life Path 8.
When was JCI born?
September 28, 1987, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict JCI?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. JCI'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