MCD · IPO · 1965
McDonald's is a Taurus
A chart that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for. McDonald's is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
McDonald's first traded as a public company on Wednesday, April 21, 1965, the day of its IPO. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and MCD gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Taurus, 1 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Capricorn, waning gibbous |
| Mercury | Aries |
| Venus | Taurus |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Taurus |
| Saturn | Pisces |
| Element and quality | Earth, Fixed |
| Life Path | 1 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Snake, Yin Wood |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Taurus
Sun in early Taurus (1 degrees in). That makes McDonald's a Taurus, the bull, a sign that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for. The ruler is Venus. The known bug is that it calls stubbornness patience and is right about half the time.
As an element, Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. As a quality, Fixed, which is the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge.
The rest of the sky
MCD's Moon is in Capricorn, a placement that keeps its feelings in a well-organised filing cabinet. The phase was a waning gibbous Moon, just past full, the phase of sharing what was learned. Further out: Mercury in Aries, Venus in Taurus, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Pisces.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Wood Snake, patient, private and very hard to surprise, and the day Yin Wood, because wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "McDonald's", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 4: the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 7, the consonants a Personality of 6.
MCD as a person
Feed MCD's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Founder. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is McDonald's's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on April 21, 1965, McDonald's is a Taurus, with its Moon in Capricorn and Life Path 1.
When was MCD born?
April 21, 1965, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MCD?
No. What a chart gives McDonald's is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
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