MTCH · first trade · 1993
Match Group is a Capricorn
A chart that respects a hierarchy and plans to run it. Match Group is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Communication Services.
The birth certificate
Match Group's first trade was on Tuesday, January 19, 1993. 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 | Capricorn, 29 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Sagittarius, waning crescent |
| Mercury | Capricorn |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Aquarius |
| Element and quality | Earth, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 33/6 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Monkey, Yang Metal |
| Archetype | The Gardener |
Sun in Capricorn
The Sun sat in late Capricorn (29 degrees in). Capricorn is the sea goat, ruled by Saturn: a sign that climbs, one ledge at a time, for decades. For Match Group that reads as a character that respects a hierarchy and plans to run it, and one that schedules fun and then reschedules it.
As an element, Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. As a quality, Cardinal, which is the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. Match Group has it in Sagittarius, which gets restless the moment things settle. That day brought a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation, with Mercury in Capricorn, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Aquarius.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 33/6: a master number, the teacher, rare enough that numerologists get excited. In BaZi, 1993 gives a Water Monkey year, clever, playful and always three ideas ahead, and a Day Master of Yang Metal, where metal cuts, refines and keeps its edges sharp.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Match Group", 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 1, the consonants a Personality of 4.
MTCH as a person
Feed MTCH's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Gardener. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is Match Group's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on January 19, 1993, Match Group is a Capricorn, with its Moon in Sagittarius and Life Path 33/6.
When was MTCH born?
January 19, 1993, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict MTCH?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. MTCH'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