SPY · fund launch · 1993
S&P 500 is an Aquarius
A chart that prefers a system to a person and a future to a present. S&P 500 is a fund that holds a whole market, which makes this the chart of a crowd.
The birth certificate
S&P 500's fund launch was on Friday, January 29, 1993. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.
Source: our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Aquarius, 9 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, first quarter |
| Mercury | Aquarius |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Cancer |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Aquarius |
| Element and quality | Air, Fixed |
| Life Path | 7 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Monkey, Yang Metal |
| Archetype | The Sniper |
Sun in Aquarius
On that date the Sun was in early Aquarius (9 degrees in), so SPY is an Aquarius. In the tradition that is the water bearer, which invents, networks and ignores how it has always been done. It also is friendly with everyone and close with nobody, which is less often put in the prospectus.
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 Aries here, and a Moon in Aries feels things instantly and is over them by lunch. It was a first quarter Moon, half lit and growing, the phase tradition reads as a push through resistance. The planets: Mercury in Aquarius, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Cancer, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Aquarius.
The numbers
Reduce January 29, 1993 digit by digit and numerology hands back Life Path 7, the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. Chinese astrology files SPY under a Water Monkey year, clever, playful and always three ideas ahead, with a Day Master of Yang Metal: metal cuts, refines and keeps its edges sharp.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "S&P 500", 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 0, the consonants a Personality of 8.
SPY as a person
Feed SPY's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Sniper. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs S&P 500's
Put in your birthday and see how your chart gets on with SPY's, plus the next day tradition marks for the two of you.
Read SPY against your own chart
It starts with yours (free, about a minute, no card). After that, Read Anything puts SPY next to it.
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Questions people ask
What is S&P 500's zodiac sign?
By its launch on January 29, 1993, S&P 500 is an Aquarius, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 7.
When was SPY born?
January 29, 1993, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict SPY?
No. S&P 500's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
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