Astrologers believe that everything on Earth that has a beginning has the potential to have a birth chart. After all, when you know what time something starts you can immediately see what the planets were doing, at this particular time. A business is no different from anything else, though there is the question of what do you take as the start date. And when I do business astrology, I often look at several different charts.
Sometimes businesses start off as being informal concerns, where someone slowly makes money. Perhaps a hobby gradually becomes a profession. Under these circumstances, the time a business starts could be the time that one contracts the first piece of paid business. So if someone is an artist, the key moment could be when they get a phone call, and they agree with a client to paint a picture for them, for a particular price.
Other businesses are more definite. A shopkeeper’s business will start on the day they open their shop. For example, the first branch of Wal-Mart, the American retail giant, was opened on Monday July 2 1962, when both the Sun and Moon were in Cancer. A good date for the foundation of an American success story, being only two days short of July 4!
Yet if two or more people come together to form a business, their lawyers will advise them to sign an agreement, to formalise their relationship. The time and date that the agreement is signed could mark an important moment.
Many businesses are incorporated – in the UK they become ‘Limited Companies’, in the US they get Incorporation status. The day of incorporation is astrologically significant, even if the business is already up and running. So although the software company Microsoft was founded in 1975, it wasn’t incorporated until June 25 1981.
If one is a stock market investor, one is not just interested in the internal workings of a company, but also in its share price. To better understand the movement of the share price, one consults a further chart, that’s set for the moment its shares become tradeable.
In conclusion, one can certainly do a birth chart for a company, but one has to consider a number of different charts. Also, we must never forget the human dimension. There are directors running the company, and one should consider their charts as well, to understand the kind of events they’re attracting in their business life.
Tomorrow I’ll be taking an in-depth look at the horoscope of a company that’s much in the news, namely the Toyota Motor Corporation.
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