MSFT · IPO · 1986
Microsoft is a Pisces
A chart that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet. Microsoft is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Microsoft first traded as a public company on Thursday, March 13, 1986, the day of its IPO. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Pisces, 22 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Pisces |
| Venus | Aries |
| Mars | Sagittarius |
| Jupiter | Pisces |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Water, Mutable |
| Life Path | 4 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Tiger, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Pisces
On that date the Sun was in late Pisces (22 degrees in), so MSFT is a Pisces. In the tradition that is the two fish, which imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. It also swims in two directions and calls it strategy, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Its element is Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. Its quality is mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Aries here, and a Moon in Aries feels things instantly and is over them by lunch. It was a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. The planets: Mercury in Pisces, Venus in Aries, Mars in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Sagittarius.
The numbers
Reduce March 13, 1986 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. Chinese astrology files MSFT under a Fire Tiger year, bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly, with a Day Master of Yang Fire: fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Microsoft" is Expression 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted, with Soul Urge 3 and Personality 7.
MSFT 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 MSFT's birth date through it and the tally says The Vault.
We wrote the long version: Microsoft Is a Pisces. So Is Oracle, by One Day..
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Read MSFT against your own chart
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Questions people ask
What is Microsoft's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on March 13, 1986, Microsoft is a Pisces, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 4.
When was MSFT born?
March 13, 1986, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MSFT?
No. Microsoft's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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