UPS · first trade · 1999
United Parcel Service is a Scorpio
A chart that goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. United Parcel Service is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Industrials.
The birth certificate
United Parcel Service's first trade was on Wednesday, November 10, 1999. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Scorpio, 17 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Sagittarius, waxing crescent |
| Mercury | Scorpio |
| Venus | Libra |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Aries |
| Saturn | Taurus |
| Element and quality | Water, Fixed |
| Life Path | 4 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Rabbit, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Scorpio
On that date the Sun was in the middle of Scorpio (17 degrees in), so UPS is a Scorpio. In the tradition that is the scorpion, which goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. It also holds a grudge like a long position, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. Scorpio is also fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge. Put together, UPS is water and fixed.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what United Parcel Service does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Sagittarius, which gets restless the moment things settle. Sky notes for the record: a waxing crescent, the first sliver after the new Moon, read as early momentum; Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Libra, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aries and Saturn in Taurus.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 4: the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. In BaZi, 1999 gives an Earth Rabbit year, careful, diplomatic and quietly lucky, and a Day Master of Yang Fire, where fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
Dates are given; names are picked. "United Parcel Service" reduces to Expression 11/2 (a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 6; only its consonants for a Personality of 5.
UPS as a person
If United Parcel Service typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Vault. That is the same engine, the same seven traditions and the same four questions a person gets.
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Questions people ask
What is United Parcel Service's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on November 10, 1999, United Parcel Service is a Scorpio, with its Moon in Sagittarius and Life Path 4.
When was UPS born?
November 10, 1999, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict UPS?
No. United Parcel Service's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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