MA · IPO · 2006
Mastercard is a Gemini
A chart that would rather have ten conversations than one meeting. Mastercard is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Mastercard first traded as a public company on Thursday, May 25, 2006, the day of its IPO. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and MA gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Gemini, 4 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Taurus, new Moon |
| Mercury | Gemini |
| Venus | Aries |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Scorpio |
| Saturn | Leo |
| Element and quality | Air, Mutable |
| Life Path | 2 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Dog, Yang Wood |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Gemini
Sun in early Gemini (4 degrees in). That makes Mastercard a Gemini, the twins, a sign that would rather have ten conversations than one meeting. The ruler is Mercury. The known bug is that it starts a sentence in one mood and finishes it in another.
Its element is Air. Air signs run on ideas: they connect, compare and talk it through. Its quality is mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Taurus here, and a Moon in Taurus wants comfort, a routine and the good chair. It was a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate. The planets: Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Aries, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Scorpio and Saturn in Leo.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 2: the partner, diplomatic and allergic to a scene. In BaZi, 2006 gives a Fire Dog year, loyal, principled and suspicious of strangers, and a Day Master of Yang Wood, where wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Mastercard" is Expression 3, the talker, happiest with an audience, with Soul Urge 7 and Personality 5.
MA 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 MA's birth date through it and the tally says The Vault.
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Questions people ask
What is Mastercard's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on May 25, 2006, Mastercard is a Gemini, with its Moon in Taurus and Life Path 2.
When was MA born?
May 25, 2006, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MA?
No. What a chart gives Mastercard 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