Celebrity Charts · 1955 – 2011
The Secret Destiny of Apple's Visionary: Revealed by Korean Astrology (Saju)
The man who put a computer in every pocket, read through Korean Saju (Four Pillars)
The Chart
Steve Jobs at a Glance
Steve Jobs was born on 24 Feb 1955, in the Year of the Goat. The stem of that birth day makes Steve Jobs a Yang Fire Day Master, the Sun. No reliable birth time is on public record, so the chart is read from three pillars, six characters; the Day Master does not depend on the hour.
Counted character by character, the chart contains 2 Wood, 1 Fire, 3 Earth, 0 Metal, 0 Water. Earth is the strongest element, which for a Fire Day Master plays the role of Output: expression and talent. The chart holds no Metal or Water, and in Saju a missing element is often the quality a life has to build deliberately, or the one a later decade finally brings.
Weighing the season of birth and the support around the Day Master, the elements that help this chart most are Fire and Wood. Decades that bring them tend to read as rising tides on the Life Flow curve, and decades that bring their opposites as low tides.
The Story
A Life in Elements
Born a Yang Fire Sun on a field of Earth, Steve Jobs carried saju's Eating God, the star of makers who turn ideas into objects. Yet his chart held no Metal and no Water: no wealth star, no power star.
Then the seasons turned. A Fire decade (1971-1980), saju's companion energy, brought the partner who matched his spark, and Apple was born in 1976. Two Wood decades (1981-2000) kept the Sun burning through his exit from Apple in 1985 and his return in 1997. And from 2001, Water and Metal arrived together, the exact elements he lacked, as the iPod, iPhone and iPad changed the world.
The Day Master
A Sun That Made Everything It Touched Shine
In Korean saju, your Day Master is your core self. His is Yang Fire, the Sun: bold, magnetic and impossible to ignore, sitting on the Dragon, a field of Earth where every idea could take shape.
The Five Elements
Three Mountains of Earth, No Metal
Three Earth, two Wood, one Fire, and no Metal or Water. For a Fire Day Master, Earth is the Eating God, saju's star of creation: a chart built to turn vision into things people can hold.
The Elemental Key
Wood: The Fuel Behind the Vision
In the cycle of creation, Wood feeds Fire and Fire feeds Earth. With so much Earth to fill, the Sun needed Wood to keep burning. The Metal and Water he lacked were wealth and power, still to come.
Great Luck Cycles
From a Garage Spark to Rivers of Fortune
Great Luck Cycles are saju's 10-year seasons of life. A Fire decade (1971-1980) brought a partner who matched his spark. Wood (1981-2000) fed him through exile and return. Then Water and Metal arrived.
The Defining Chapter
The Water Rooster Decade of iPhone
From 2001 his Great Luck ran Yin Water over the Rooster: Water and Metal, the two elements his chart lacked, power and wealth at once. In this decade came the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.
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Decade by Decade
Each Great Luck Cycle adds a stem (top element) and a branch (bottom element) to the chart. The roles show what those elements mean for a Fire Day Master; the tide is the decade's overall direction on the Life Flow curve.
| Years | Pillar | Roles | Tide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961–1970 | Yin Fire Ox | Companion over Output | low |
| 1971–1980 | Yang Fire Rat | Companion over Power | low |
| 1981–1990 | Yin Wood Pig | Resource over Power | steady |
| 1991–2000 | Yang Wood Dog | Resource over Output | low |
| 2001–2010 | Yin Water Rooster | Power over Wealth | low |
| 2011–2020 | Yang Water Monkey | Power over Wealth | low |
Career milestones on the curve
- ✦ 1976 · Apple Founded
- ✦ 1985 · Leaves Apple
- ✦ 1997 · Back at Apple
- ✦ 2007 · iPhone
Keep Reading
Go Deeper
- → The Yang Fire Day Master: full profile
- → What it means when Metal is missing from a chart
- → What it means when Water is missing from a chart
- → How Great Luck Cycles work
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Calculated from the publicly reported birth date. For entertainment only; this reading reflects public career milestones and makes no claims about private life.
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