MET · first trade · 2000
MetLife is an Aries
A chart that goes first and reads the manual later. MetLife is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Financials.
The birth certificate
MetLife's first trade was on Wednesday, April 5, 2000. 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 | Aries, 16 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, new Moon |
| Mercury | Pisces |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Taurus |
| Jupiter | Taurus |
| Saturn | Taurus |
| Element and quality | Fire, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 11/2 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Dragon, Yin Water |
| Archetype | The Gardener |
Sun in Aries
On that date the Sun was in the middle of Aries (16 degrees in), so MET is an Aries. In the tradition that is the ram, which goes first and reads the manual later. It also mistakes speed for a plan about once a quarter, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Cardinal Fire: that is the short version of MetLife. The long version is that the sign is cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first, and that fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what MetLife does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Aries, which feels things instantly and is over them by lunch. Sky notes for the record: a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate; Mercury in Pisces, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Taurus, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Taurus.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 11/2: a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears. In BaZi, 2000 gives a Metal Dragon year, ambitious, flamboyant and fond of a grand entrance, and a Day Master of Yin Water, where water finds the way around whatever is in front of it.
The name gets a vote too. "MetLife" adds up to an Expression number of 7, the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 1 and its Personality (consonants only) is 6.
MET as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given MetLife's birth date, it returns The Gardener.
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Questions people ask
What is MetLife's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on April 5, 2000, MetLife is an Aries, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 11/2.
When was MET born?
April 5, 2000, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MET?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
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