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Andrew Carnegie
The son of a handloom weaver emigrated at thirteen, rose from telegraph boy through the railroad, and built the largest steel company in America. In 1901 he sold it, and spent the rest of his life giving away nine-tenths of his fortune. On 1 March 1901, when the sale was settled, what overlapped?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Andrew Carnegie — Steel magnate; philanthropist
- Period analysed
- 1835–1919
- Three pillars
- Day 辛酉 / Month 丁亥 / Year 乙未
- Void branches
- 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Destiny area
- 0.778 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny sets a pattern that breaks old frames with talent, a key star in the place of the father, and a binding formed in boyhood.
- The year a superior raised him up, the year he went independent, the year he declared how wealth should be used and the year he sold his company fall in the same kind of year, twelve years apart.
- From the start of his steelworks to the purchase of Homestead, everything falls inside the twenty years when his most supportive stars ran.
- In 1901, when he let the company go, three forces of the same nature as himself aligned and reached their peak.
- After the sale, the measures pointing toward giving kept rising, and in his last decade he died leaving peace as his unfinished theme.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- How did an immigrant boy build the largest steel company in America?
- Why did the turning points of his life fall twelve years apart?
- What overlapped on 1 March 1901?
- Why did he give away the fortune he had built?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1848 | 戊申 | Emigrates with his family to Pittsburgh |
| 1853 | 癸丑 (天) | Becomes secretary to Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad |
| 1865 | 乙丑 (天) | Leaves the railroad for his own businesses |
| 1873 | 癸酉 | Begins a steelworks in the middle of a panic |
| 1883 | 癸未 | Buys the Homestead steelworks |
| 1889 | 己丑 (天) | Publishes the essay "Wealth" |
| 1892 | 壬辰 | Forms Carnegie Steel; the Homestead strike |
| 1901 | 辛丑 (天) | Sells to J.P. Morgan; U.S. Steel is born |
| 1911 | 辛亥 | Founds the Carnegie Corporation of New York |
| 1919 | 己未 | 11 Aug — dies at Lenox, Massachusetts |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The first-decade binding and the year of 丙戌
- Four turning points in the Rat–Ox years
- The four layers of 1 March 1901
- Twenty years of the main star and steel
- A destiny of giving
- The decade of the adverse element
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii