V · IPO · 2008
Visa is a Pisces
A chart that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet. Visa is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Visa first traded as a public company on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, the day of its IPO. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Pisces, 29 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Virgo, waxing gibbous |
| Mercury | Pisces |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Capricorn |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Water, Mutable |
| Life Path | 5 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Rat, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Patron |
Sun in Pisces
The Sun sat in late Pisces (29 degrees in). Pisces is the two fish, ruled by Jupiter and Neptune: a sign that imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. For Visa that reads as a character that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet, and one that swims in two directions and calls it strategy.
Its element is Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. 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 waxing gibbous Moon, almost full, the phase of refining before the reveal. The planets: Mercury in Pisces, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo.
The numbers
Reduce March 19, 2008 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 5, the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same. Chinese astrology files V under an Earth Rat year, quick, resourceful and first to the food, with a Day Master of 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 "Visa" is Expression 6, the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not, with Soul Urge 1 and Personality 5.
V 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 V's birth date through it and the tally says The Patron.
Your chart vs Visa's
Put in your birthday and see how your chart gets on with V's, plus the next day tradition marks for the two of you.
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Questions people ask
What is Visa's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on March 19, 2008, Visa is a Pisces, with its Moon in Virgo and Life Path 5.
When was V born?
March 19, 2008, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict V?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
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