WMT · IPO · 1972
Walmart is a Virgo
A chart that fixes, sorts and improves the thing nobody asked about. Walmart is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
Walmart first traded as a public company on Friday, August 25, 1972, the day of its IPO. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and WMT gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Virgo, 2 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Pisces, full Moon |
| Mercury | Leo |
| Venus | Cancer |
| Mars | Virgo |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius |
| Saturn | Gemini |
| Element and quality | Earth, Mutable |
| Life Path | 7 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Rat, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Long Bet |
Sun in Virgo
The Sun sat in early Virgo (2 degrees in). Virgo is the maiden with the wheat, ruled by Mercury: a sign that fixes, sorts and improves the thing nobody asked about. For Walmart that reads as a character that has a checklist for the checklist, and one that cannot leave a typo alone, including other people's.
Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. Virgo is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, WMT is earth and mutable.
The rest of the sky
The Moon was in Pisces, which soaks up whatever mood is in the room. It was a full Moon, everything lit at once, which tradition reads as a very public arrival. The rest of the sky that day: Mercury in Leo, Venus in Cancer, Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Sagittarius and Saturn in Gemini.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Water Rat, quick, resourceful and first to the food, and the day Yang Earth, because earth holds everything up and hates being rushed. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 7, the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Walmart" reduces to Expression 7 (the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 2; only its consonants for a Personality of 5.
WMT as a person
If Walmart typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Long Bet. 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 Walmart's zodiac sign?
By its IPO on August 25, 1972, Walmart is a Virgo, with its Moon in Pisces and Life Path 7.
When was WMT born?
August 25, 1972, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict WMT?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. WMT's chart is a character sketch.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart