IAU · fund launch · 2005
iShares Gold Trust is an Aquarius
A chart that prefers a system to a person and a future to a present. iShares Gold Trust is a fund tied to physical stuff, the kind that gets mined, grown or pumped, filed under Commodities.
The birth certificate
iShares Gold Trust's fund launch was on Friday, January 28, 2005. That is the day IAU arrived in public, so that is the day its chart is cast for.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Aquarius, 8 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Virgo, waning gibbous |
| Mercury | Capricorn |
| Venus | Capricorn |
| Mars | Sagittarius |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Cancer |
| Element and quality | Air, Fixed |
| Life Path | 9 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Monkey, Yang Water |
| Archetype | The Magpie |
Sun in Aquarius
Aquarius, early Aquarius (8 degrees in): iShares Gold Trust shares a sign with the water bearer, ruled by Saturn and Uranus. Read as a personality, it prefers a system to a person and a future to a present. Read less kindly, it is friendly with everyone and close with nobody.
As an element, Air. Air signs run on ideas: they connect, compare and talk it through. As a quality, Fixed, which is the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Virgo here, and a Moon in Virgo calms down by tidying something. It was a waning gibbous Moon, just past full, the phase of sharing what was learned. The planets: Mercury in Capricorn, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Cancer.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Wood Monkey, clever, playful and always three ideas ahead, and the day Yang Water, because water finds the way around whatever is in front of it. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 9, the humanitarian, thinking about everyone at once.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "iShares Gold Trust", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 8: the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 6, the consonants a Personality of 11/2.
IAU as a person
Feed IAU's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Magpie. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Other Aquarius charts
- Chipotle Mexican Grill
- Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking
- iShares MSCI South Africa
- iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF
Commodities
- VanEck Gold Miners
- SPDR S&P Metals & Mining
- iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust
- Invesco DB Oil Fund
Questions people ask
What is iShares Gold Trust's zodiac sign?
By its launch on January 28, 2005, iShares Gold Trust is an Aquarius, with its Moon in Virgo and Life Path 9.
When was IAU born?
January 28, 2005, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict IAU?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart