PG · first trade · 1891
Procter & Gamble is a Cancer
A chart that carries its home on its back and decorates it. Procter & Gamble is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Procter & Gamble's first trade was on Wednesday, July 1, 1891. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.
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, 9 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Taurus, waning crescent |
| Mercury | Cancer |
| Venus | Gemini |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Pisces |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Water, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 9 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Rabbit, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Magpie |
Sun in Cancer
On that date the Sun was in early Cancer (9 degrees in), so PG is a Cancer. In the tradition that is the crab, which protects its own and remembers everything. It also takes a comment from 2014 personally, still, 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 cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
PG's Moon is in Taurus, a placement that wants comfort, a routine and the good chair. The phase was a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation. Further out: Mercury in Cancer, Venus in Gemini, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Virgo.
The numbers
Numerology gives Procter & Gamble Life Path 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once. The Chinese calendar gives it a Metal Rabbit year (careful, diplomatic and quietly lucky), and its Day Master, the element of the day itself, is 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 "Procter & Gamble" is Expression 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once, with Soul Urge 8 and Personality 1.
PG 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 PG's birth date through it and the tally says The Magpie.
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Questions people ask
What is Procter & Gamble's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on July 1, 1891, Procter & Gamble is a Cancer, with its Moon in Taurus and Life Path 9.
When was PG born?
July 1, 1891, 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 PG?
No. Procter & Gamble's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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