SOXX · first trade · 2001
iShares Semiconductor is a Cancer
A chart that carries its home on its back and decorates it. iShares Semiconductor is a listed company, so its birthday is the day its shares first changed hands in public.
The birth certificate
iShares Semiconductor's first trade was on Tuesday, July 10, 2001. That is the day SOXX arrived in public, so that is the day its chart is cast for.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Cancer, 18 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Pisces, waning gibbous |
| Mercury | Gemini |
| Venus | Gemini |
| Mars | Sagittarius |
| Jupiter | Gemini |
| Saturn | Gemini |
| Element and quality | Water, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 11/2 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Metal Snake, Yang Wood |
| Archetype | The Empire Builder |
Sun in Cancer
Cancer, the middle of Cancer (18 degrees in): iShares Semiconductor shares a sign with the crab, ruled by the Moon. Read as a personality, it carries its home on its back and decorates it. Read less kindly, it takes a comment from 2014 personally, still.
As an element, Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. As a quality, Cardinal, which is the quality that opens each season and likes to go first.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what iShares Semiconductor does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Pisces, which soaks up whatever mood is in the room. Sky notes for the record: a waning gibbous Moon, just past full, the phase of sharing what was learned; Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Gemini, Mars in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Gemini and Saturn in Gemini.
The numbers
Life Path 11/2 for iShares Semiconductor, which numerology calls a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears. In BaZi terms: a Metal Snake year (patient, private and very hard to surprise) and a Yang Wood Day Master, because wood grows toward the light and does not ask permission.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "iShares Semiconductor", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 4: the builder, who trusts a process more than a person. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 8, the consonants a Personality of 5.
SOXX as a person
Feed SOXX's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Empire Builder. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
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Questions people ask
What is iShares Semiconductor's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on July 10, 2001, iShares Semiconductor is a Cancer, with its Moon in Pisces and Life Path 11/2.
When was SOXX born?
July 10, 2001, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict SOXX?
No. iShares Semiconductor's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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