META · iPO as Facebook · 2012
Meta Platforms is a Taurus
A chart that builds slowly and then refuses to move. Meta Platforms is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Meta Platforms's iPO as Facebook was on Friday, May 18, 2012. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and META gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Taurus, 28 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Taurus, waning crescent |
| Mercury | Taurus |
| Venus | Gemini |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Taurus |
| Saturn | Libra |
| Element and quality | Earth, Fixed |
| Life Path | 1 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Dragon, Yin Earth |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Taurus
The Sun sat in late Taurus (28 degrees in). Taurus is the bull, ruled by Venus: a sign that builds slowly and then refuses to move. For Meta Platforms that reads as a character that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for, and one that calls stubbornness patience and is right about half the time.
Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. Taurus is also fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge. Put together, META is earth and fixed.
The rest of the sky
Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. Meta Platforms has it in Taurus, which wants comfort, a routine and the good chair. That day brought a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation, with Mercury in Taurus, Venus in Gemini, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Libra.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Water Dragon, ambitious, flamboyant and fond of a grand entrance, and the day Yin Earth, because earth holds everything up and hates being rushed. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Meta Platforms" reduces to Expression 6 (the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 4; only its consonants for a Personality of 11/2.
META as a person
If Meta Platforms typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Founder. 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 Meta Platforms's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on May 18, 2012, Meta Platforms is a Taurus, with its Moon in Taurus and Life Path 1.
When was META born?
May 18, 2012, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict META?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
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