Steve Jobs, Fired From Apple at 30 and Back at 42: The Timing in His Real Chart
Fired from his own company at 30, back in charge at 42. Scroll: twelve years is not a random number in a chart.
Her birth chart ID
Steve Jobs
24 February 19557:15 pmSan Francisco
- ☉︎Sun Pisces
- ACRising Virgo
- ☽︎Moon Aries
With this birth time, his houses can be read, not just his signs.
His fall and comeback in 9 dates
Scroll down, the years slide by.
1 April 1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple.
December 1980
Apple goes public. At 25, he is worth more than 200 million dollars.
April 1983
He hires John Sculley, the boss of Pepsi, to run Apple with him.
31 May 1985
The board backs Sculley. Jobs loses every operating role.
September 1985
He resigns and starts a new company, NeXT.
February 1986
He buys the small graphics team of Lucasfilm. It becomes Pixar.
November 1995
Toy Story comes out. Pixar goes public a week later.
December 1996
Apple announces it is buying NeXT.
16 September 1997
Steve Jobs becomes Apple's interim CEO.
His real chart
A Sun in the house of partners.
Virgo rising
Virgo rising
Mercury, ruler of Virgo, runs his chart: ideas, tools, words. It sits in his 6th house of work.
His Sun in the 7th
5° Pisces, in the house of partners. And of open rivals: the person across the table.
Jupiter with Uranus
Together in Cancer, in his 11th house of friends and allies: the famous signature of his tech revolution.
Two clocks, one place
1985: the hand of his chart lands on his Sun.
Ages 0, 12, 24
Ages 0, 12, 24
Profections: each birthday moves the hand one house. Ages 0, 12 and 24 are 1st house years.
Age 30, 1985
Six houses further: the 7th house, his Sun. The topic of the year: partners and rivals. His partner becomes his rival.
Saturn comes home
The day he loses his role, Saturn stands 2° from its birth place. His Saturn return, the test of what you built, was exact on 30 November 1984.
Age 42, 1997
Twelve years later, the hand is back on the 7th house. Apple buys NeXT, Microsoft invests, and he is back in charge.
From the fall to the comeback
12 years: one full turn of the clock
The same house, the same Sun, the same topic. Only his way of living it changed.
Releasing from the Lot of Fortune
A peak can be a fall.
His Lot of Fortune is at 20° Leo. Releasing from it, his big chapter from 1973 to 1993 is Virgo. Inside it, small chapters. Scroll through 1983 to 1987.
Gemini, 11 signs from Fortune, the place of allies: NeXT finds investors, Pixar is bought.
- 1983Sculley
- 1984Macintosh
- 1985Loses his role
- 1985NeXT
- 1986Pixar
Three layers, one spring
1985: watch the clocks meet.
Saturn
Saturn return, exact 30 Nov 1984
Profection
Age 30: 7th house, partners and rivals
Releasing
Peak period in Taurus, from Fortune
31 May 1985 All three overlap from April 1985. He loses his role, then resigns in September. Twelve years later, the same 7th house year brings him back.
The house where you fall is often the house where you come back.
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Questions people ask
When was Steve Jobs fired from Apple?
After a clash with CEO John Sculley, Apple's board backed Sculley in April 1985. On 31 May 1985 Jobs lost every operating role, and he resigned on 17 September 1985, at 30. He came back when Apple bought his company NeXT (announced 20 December 1996) and became interim CEO on 16 September 1997.
What is Steve Jobs' rising sign?
Virgo rising, with the birth time of 7:15 pm on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco. His Sun is at 5° Pisces in the 7th house, the house of partners, and Jupiter and Uranus sit together in Cancer in his 11th house.
What does astrology say about Steve Jobs leaving Apple?
1985 was a 7th house year for him (annual profections), the house of partners and open rivals. Saturn had just come back to its birth place (exact on 30 November 1984), and zodiacal releasing from the Lot of Fortune was in a peak period from April to December 1985. His comeback, in 1997, was again a 7th house year.
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