Four-Mirror Biographical Study · Revised Oct 25, 2026
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs · Feb 24, 1955 to Oct 5, 2011
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Technology Pioneer · Industrial Design Visionary · Rodden AA Birth Record
The Life of Steve Jobs Through Four Metaphysical Lenses
Co-founder of Apple, builder of Pixar, and architect of the personal computing and smartphone eras
Rodden Rating AA Civil Record & Public Sources: Birth date (February 24, 1955) and exact time (7:15 PM PST) are documented on the official State of California Certificate of Live Birth (Local Registrar's Number 3918, signed by Dr. H. M. Lyons at University of California Hospital, San Francisco), holding a Rodden Rating AA on Astro-Databank. Biographical milestones are cited from Walter Isaacson's authorized biography (2011), Encyclopaedia Britannica, ABC News, and Wikipedia.
Placed for adoption at birth, raised beside his adoptive father's workbench in a Silicon Valley garage, drawn to Zen Buddhism and India in his youth, Steve Jobs built Apple from that very family garage into a global empire.
Ousted in 1985 from the company he founded, he spent eleven years in exile building NeXT and Pixar before returning in 1997 to rescue Apple and unveil the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Yet just as all four classical charts warn through a blazing Bing Fire natal structure lacking Water regulation and a Prenatal Mountain-Earth Stripping (Bo) hexagram, that relentless fire consumed its own vessel, ending his journey at age fifty-six.
Revised and updated on October 25, 2026 to demonstrate how deeply four independent Eastern metaphysical traditions resonate when placed beside an exhaustively documented historical biography.
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