SCHW · IPO · 1987
Charles Schwab is a Virgo
A chart that has a checklist for the checklist. Charles Schwab is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Charles Schwab first traded as a public company on Tuesday, September 22, 1987, the day of its IPO. Financial astrology treats that moment as a birth and casts a chart for it, the same way it would for you.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Virgo, 29 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Virgo, new Moon |
| Mercury | Libra |
| Venus | Libra |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Aries |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Earth, Mutable |
| Life Path | 11/2 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Rabbit, Yang Wood |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Virgo
SCHW has its Sun in late Virgo (29 degrees in), the sign of the maiden with the wheat. Tradition says Virgo fixes, sorts and improves the thing nobody asked about, and gives it Mercury as its ruler. The less flattering half: it cannot leave a typo alone, including other people's.
Its element is Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. 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 Virgo here, and a Moon in Virgo calms down by tidying something. It was a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate. The planets: Mercury in Libra, Venus in Libra, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius.
The numbers
Life Path 11/2 for Charles Schwab, which numerology calls a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears. In BaZi terms: a Fire Rabbit year (careful, diplomatic and quietly lucky) and a Yang Wood Day Master, because wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Charles Schwab" is Expression 5, the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same, with Soul Urge 7 and Personality 7.
SCHW 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 SCHW's birth date through it and the tally says The Vault.
Your chart vs Charles Schwab's
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Questions people ask
What is Charles Schwab's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on September 22, 1987, Charles Schwab is a Virgo, with its Moon in Virgo and Life Path 11/2.
When was SCHW born?
September 22, 1987, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict SCHW?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. SCHW'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