YouTube Foundation

In February 2005, three former PayPal colleagues, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, hit a small, universal frustration: they could not easily share videos filmed at a dinner party. From that ordinary snag they built YouTube, a place where anyone could upload, share and watch video for free. It launched that November, spread like wildfire on the strength of a simple interface, and by late 2006 Google bought it for 1.65 billion dollars in stock. This is the chart of that founding moment, and its signature reads like a blueprint for the thing it became.

The Sun stands in Aquarius in the fifth house, and few placements could suit it better. Aquarius is born to shine within the collective, the tribe, the whole network of humanity; the fifth is the Sun's own house of creativity, play and self-expression, the house of the born influencer. Together they describe a platform where the individual creator shines for and through the masses.

The Moon, exalted in Taurus in the eighth house, grounds this in lasting value and in cycles of reinvention: an earthy, sensual comfort tuned to money and endurance, plunged into the house of shared wealth and rebirth.

Libra rises, Venus-ruled, giving the whole enterprise its mask: beautiful, balanced, relational and easy to invite in. It is the face of a platform built to connect people, the world watching itself through a graceful pair of scales.