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Steve Jobs
Given up for adoption soon after birth, he left university after one term and started Apple from a garage at twenty-one. At thirty he left the company he had built; twelve years later he returned, and with the iPod and the iPhone remade the tools of the world. The founding sat inside a twenty-year void of ten-year phases. The return fell in the years when that same cycle came round again. Why those years? And what was the decade at the summit of the world traded against? From birth to his death at fifty-six, his life set against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Steve Jobs — Apple
- Period analysed
- 1955–2011
- Three pillars
- Day 丙辰 / Month 戊寅 / Year 乙未
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Void decades
- 1962–1982
- Destiny area
- 1.27 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 15 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- A destiny missing the seat of the father and the seat of the spouse. Soon after birth, he left the father’s seat.
- The twenty years from age seven fall inside a void of ten-year phases. Leaving university and founding the company both sit within it.
- The year he founded the company carried the same cycle as the day he was born.
- The year he left the company he had built fell outside the void decades. The tie remained — and his next two companies began that year.
- He returned to the company he founded in the two years when the cycle of the founding decades came round again at the scale of a year.
- In the decade when the energy that supports his life arrived, he released the products that remade the world’s tools. The calendar of the launch window matched his year of birth.
- That same decade was also the one that cut deepest into his life.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why could he return to the company he left in a year of the same cycle?
- Why did what he began inside a twenty-year void endure?
- What was the decade at the summit traded against?
- Who inherited the business, and who held the family together?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1955 | 乙未 | 24 Feb — born in San Francisco; adopted soon after |
| 1972 | 壬子■ | Enters university and leaves after one term |
| 1976 | 丙辰 | 1 Apr — founds Apple |
| 1980 | 庚申 | 12 Dec — Apple goes public |
| 1984 | 癸亥 | 24 Jan — Macintosh launched |
| 1985 | 乙丑■ | 17 Sep — leaves Apple; founds NeXT |
| 1986 | 乙丑■ | 3 Feb — buys Pixar |
| 1995 | 乙亥 | 22 Nov — Toy Story released |
| 1996 | 丙子■ | 20 Dec — Apple announces the acquisition of NeXT |
| 1997 | 丁丑■ | 16 Sep — becomes Apple’s interim CEO |
| 2001 | 辛巳 | 23 Oct — iPod announced |
| 2007 | 丁亥 | 29 Jun — iPhone launched |
| 2011 | 辛卯 | 24 Aug steps down as CEO; 5 Oct dies at fifty-six |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. ■ = void year.
Contents
15 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Rank and type
- Ten-year phases
- The twenty-year void
- The missing father’s seat
- The karma of distrust
- 1985 — leaving outside the void
- The same cycle, twenty years on
- The decade of the first guardian
- Light and life
- Successor and supporter
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii