SHOP · nYSE IPO · 2015
Shopify is a Gemini
A chart that would rather have ten conversations than one meeting. Shopify is a way into markets outside the United States, listed in New York.
The birth certificate
Shopify's nYSE IPO was on Thursday, May 21, 2015. That is the day SHOP arrived in public, so that is the day its chart is cast for.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Gemini, 0 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Cancer, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Gemini |
| Venus | Cancer |
| Mars | Gemini |
| Jupiter | Leo |
| Saturn | Sagittarius |
| Element and quality | Air, Mutable |
| Life Path | 7 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Goat, Yin Fire |
| Archetype | The Opportunist |
Sun in Gemini
Gemini, early Gemini (0 degrees in): Shopify shares a sign with the twins, ruled by Mercury. Read as a personality, it would rather have ten conversations than one meeting. Read less kindly, it starts a sentence in one mood and finishes it in another.
Its element is Air. Air signs run on ideas: they connect, compare and talk it through. Its quality is mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
SHOP's Moon is in Cancer, a placement that is at its happiest at home, which is the Moon in its own sign. The phase was a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum. Further out: Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Cancer, Mars in Gemini, Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Sagittarius.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Wood Goat, gentle, creative and fond of comfort, and the day Yin Fire, because fire warms the room and burns through fuel. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 7, the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Shopify" is Expression 8, the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power, with Soul Urge 6 and Personality 11/2.
SHOP 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 SHOP's birth date through it and the tally says The Opportunist.
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Questions people ask
What is Shopify's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on May 21, 2015, Shopify is a Gemini, with its Moon in Cancer and Life Path 7.
When was SHOP born?
May 21, 2015, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict SHOP?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart