NKE · IPO · 1980
Nike is a Sagittarius
A chart that announces the destination before checking the map. Nike is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Nike first traded as a public company on Tuesday, December 2, 1980, the day of its IPO. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and NKE gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Sagittarius, 10 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Libra, waning crescent |
| Mercury | Scorpio |
| Venus | Scorpio |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Libra |
| Element and quality | Fire, Mutable |
| Life Path | 5 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Monkey, Yin Earth |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Sagittarius
Sun in the middle of Sagittarius (10 degrees in). That makes Nike a Sagittarius, the archer, a sign that announces the destination before checking the map. The ruler is Jupiter. The known bug is that it is optimistic in a way that needs supervision.
As an element, Fire. Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. As a quality, Mutable, which is the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. Nike has it in Libra, which needs the room to like each other. That day brought a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation, with Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Libra.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Metal Monkey, clever, playful and always three ideas ahead, and the day Yin Earth, because earth holds everything up and hates being rushed. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 5, the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Nike", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 3: the talker, happiest with an audience. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 5, the consonants a Personality of 7.
NKE as a person
Feed NKE's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Vault. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is Nike's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on December 2, 1980, Nike is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Libra and Life Path 5.
When was NKE born?
December 2, 1980, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict NKE?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
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