MMM · first trade · 1946
3M is a Capricorn
A chart that respects a hierarchy and plans to run it. 3M is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
3M's first trade was on Monday, January 14, 1946. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Capricorn, 23 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Gemini, waxing gibbous |
| Mercury | Capricorn |
| Venus | Capricorn |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Cancer |
| Element and quality | Earth, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 8 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Rooster, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Capricorn
The Sun sat in late Capricorn (23 degrees in). Capricorn is the sea goat, ruled by Saturn: a sign that climbs, one ledge at a time, for decades. For 3M that reads as a character that respects a hierarchy and plans to run it, and one that schedules fun and then reschedules it.
Its element is Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. Its quality is cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
The inner planets and the slow ones, as they stood for MMM: Mercury in Capricorn, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Cancer. The Moon was in Gemini, a placement that processes every feeling by describing it to someone, at a waxing gibbous Moon, almost full, the phase of refining before the reveal.
The numbers
Reduce January 14, 1946 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 8, the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power. Chinese astrology files MMM under a Wood Rooster year, precise, proud and up before everyone, with a Day Master of Yang Earth: earth holds everything up and hates being rushed.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "3M" is Expression 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person, with Soul Urge 0 and Personality 4.
MMM 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 MMM's birth date through it and the tally says The Founder.
Your chart vs 3M's
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Questions people ask
What is 3M's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on January 14, 1946, 3M is a Capricorn, with its Moon in Gemini and Life Path 8.
When was MMM born?
January 14, 1946, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MMM?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. MMM'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