WDC · first trade · 1978
Western Digital is a Scorpio
A chart that goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. Western Digital is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public, filed under Information Technology.
The birth certificate
Western Digital's first trade was on Tuesday, October 31, 1978. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and WDC gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Scorpio, 7 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Scorpio, new Moon |
| Mercury | Scorpio |
| Venus | Scorpio |
| Mars | Scorpio |
| Jupiter | Leo |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Water, Fixed |
| Life Path | 3 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Horse, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Opportunist |
Sun in Scorpio
The Sun sat in early Scorpio (7 degrees in). Scorpio is the scorpion, ruled by Mars and Pluto: a sign that goes deep, keeps secrets and plays the long game. For Western Digital that reads as a character that reads the footnotes and then the footnotes' sources, and one that holds a grudge like a long position.
Fixed Water: that is the short version of Western Digital. The long version is that the sign is fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge, and that water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what Western Digital does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Scorpio, which feels everything and admits to none of it. Sky notes for the record: a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate; Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Scorpio, Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Virgo.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 3: the talker, happiest with an audience. In BaZi, 1978 gives an Earth Horse year, energetic, independent and allergic to fences, and a Day Master of Yang Fire, where fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
The name gets a vote too. "Western Digital" adds up to an Expression number of 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 11/2 and its Personality (consonants only) is 11/2.
WDC as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given Western Digital's birth date, it returns The Opportunist.
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Questions people ask
What is Western Digital's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on October 31, 1978, Western Digital is a Scorpio, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 3.
When was WDC born?
October 31, 1978, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict WDC?
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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