MRK · first trade · 1927
Merck is a Cancer
A chart that carries its home on its back and decorates it. Merck is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Merck's first trade was on Friday, July 1, 1927. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and MRK gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open. The year is sourced; the exact day is an approximation, so treat the Moon, which changes sign every two and a half days, as a best guess.
| Sun sign | Cancer, 8 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Leo, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Leo |
| Venus | Leo |
| Mars | Leo |
| Jupiter | Aries |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Water, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 9 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Rabbit, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Live Wire |
Sun in Cancer
Sun in early Cancer (8 degrees in). That makes Merck a Cancer, the crab, a sign that carries its home on its back and decorates it. The ruler is the Moon. The known bug is that it takes a comment from 2014 personally, still.
As an element, Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. As a quality, Cardinal, which is the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
Moon in Leo: the mood that needs applause the way other Moons need sleep. Phase: a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. And Mercury in Leo, Venus in Leo, Mars in Leo, Jupiter in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius, for completeness.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Fire Rabbit, careful, diplomatic and quietly lucky, and the day Yang Fire, because fire warms the room and burns through fuel. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Merck", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 5: the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 5, the consonants a Personality of 9.
MRK as a person
Feed MRK's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Live Wire. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs Merck's
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Read MRK against your own chart
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Questions people ask
What is Merck's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on July 1, 1927, Merck is a Cancer, with its Moon in Leo and Life Path 9.
When was MRK born?
July 1, 1927, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open. The year is sourced; the exact day is an approximation.
Can astrology predict MRK?
No. What a chart gives Merck 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