SMH · first trade · 2000
VanEck Semiconductor is a Taurus
A chart that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for. VanEck Semiconductor is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
VanEck Semiconductor's first trade was on Friday, May 5, 2000. No hospital, no birth certificate, but a date and a time, which is all a chart needs.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Taurus, 15 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Gemini, new Moon |
| Mercury | Taurus |
| Venus | Taurus |
| Mars | Gemini |
| Jupiter | Taurus |
| Saturn | Taurus |
| Element and quality | Earth, Fixed |
| Life Path | 3 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Dragon, Yin Water |
| Archetype | The Empire Builder |
Sun in Taurus
The Sun sat in the middle of Taurus (15 degrees in). Taurus is the bull, ruled by Venus: a sign that builds slowly and then refuses to move. For VanEck Semiconductor that reads as a character that likes things heavy, tangible and paid for, and one that calls stubbornness patience and is right about half the time.
Its element is Earth. Earth signs run on proof: they build, count and keep what works. Its quality is fixed, the quality that holds the middle of each season and does not budge.
The rest of the sky
SMH's Moon is in Gemini, a placement that processes every feeling by describing it to someone. The phase was a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate. Further out: Mercury in Taurus, Venus in Taurus, Mars in Gemini, Jupiter in Taurus and Saturn in Taurus.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 3: the talker, happiest with an audience. In BaZi, 2000 gives a Metal Dragon year, ambitious, flamboyant and fond of a grand entrance, and a Day Master of Yin Water, where water finds the way around whatever is in front of it.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "VanEck Semiconductor" is Expression 8, the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power, with Soul Urge 8 and Personality 9.
SMH as a person
The reveal names people by letting seven traditions vote on four questions: move first or wait, this year or the next ten, one thing or many, out loud or in private. Run SMH's birth date through it and the tally says The Empire Builder.
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Questions people ask
What is VanEck Semiconductor's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on May 5, 2000, VanEck Semiconductor is a Taurus, with its Moon in Gemini and Life Path 3.
When was SMH born?
May 5, 2000, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict SMH?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. SMH's chart is a character sketch.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart