TMO · first trade · 1980
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a Cancer
A chart that carries its home on its back and decorates it. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Thermo Fisher Scientific's first trade was on Tuesday, July 1, 1980. 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 | Aquarius, waning gibbous |
| Mercury | Cancer |
| Venus | Gemini |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Virgo |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Water, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 8 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Monkey, Yin Wood |
| Archetype | The Empire Builder |
Sun in Cancer
On that date the Sun was in early Cancer (9 degrees in), so TMO 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.
As an element, Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. As a quality, Cardinal, which is the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
The inner planets and the slow ones, as they stood for TMO: Mercury in Cancer, Venus in Gemini, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Virgo and Saturn in Virgo. The Moon was in Aquarius, a placement that feels things at a slight, scientific distance, at a waning gibbous Moon, just past full, the phase of sharing what was learned.
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 Wood, because wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 8, the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Thermo Fisher Scientific", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 7: the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 3, the consonants a Personality of 4.
TMO as a person
Feed TMO's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Empire Builder. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is Thermo Fisher Scientific's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on July 1, 1980, Thermo Fisher Scientific is a Cancer, with its Moon in Aquarius and Life Path 8.
When was TMO born?
July 1, 1980, 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 TMO?
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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