EWJ · fund launch · 1996
iShares MSCI Japan is a Pisces
A chart that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet. iShares MSCI Japan is a way into markets outside the United States, listed in New York.
The birth certificate
iShares MSCI Japan's fund launch was on Tuesday, March 12, 1996. Financial astrology treats that moment as a birth and casts a chart for it, the same way it would for you.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Pisces, 22 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Sagittarius, last quarter |
| Mercury | Pisces |
| Venus | Taurus |
| Mars | Pisces |
| Jupiter | Capricorn |
| Saturn | Pisces |
| Element and quality | Water, Mutable |
| Life Path | 4 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Fire Rat, Yang Earth |
| Archetype | The Vault |
Sun in Pisces
EWJ has its Sun in late Pisces (22 degrees in), the sign of the two fish. Tradition says Pisces imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries, and gives it Jupiter and Neptune as rulers. The less flattering half: it swims in two directions and calls it strategy.
As an element, Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. As a quality, Mutable, which is the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Sagittarius here, and a Moon in Sagittarius gets restless the moment things settle. It was a last quarter Moon, half lit and shrinking, read as a time of letting go of the old version. The planets: Mercury in Pisces, Venus in Taurus, Mars in Pisces, Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Pisces.
The numbers
Numerology gives iShares MSCI Japan Life Path 4, the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. The Chinese calendar gives it a Fire Rat year (quick, resourceful and first to the food), and its Day Master, the element of the day itself, is Yang Earth: earth holds everything up and hates being rushed.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "iShares MSCI Japan", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 3: the talker, happiest with an audience. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 8, the consonants a Personality of 4.
EWJ as a person
Feed EWJ's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Vault. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs iShares MSCI Japan's
Put in your birthday and see how your chart gets on with EWJ's, plus the next day tradition marks for the two of you.
Read EWJ against your own chart
It starts with yours (free, about a minute, no card). After that, Read Anything puts EWJ next to it.
Born the same day
iShares MSCI Japan shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with one other asset:
Other Pisces charts
Its neighbours
Questions people ask
What is iShares MSCI Japan's zodiac sign?
By its launch on March 12, 1996, iShares MSCI Japan is a Pisces, with its Moon in Sagittarius and Life Path 4.
When was EWJ born?
March 12, 1996, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict EWJ?
No. What a chart gives iShares MSCI Japan is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart