TIP · fund launch · 2003
iShares TIPS Bond is a Sagittarius
A chart that aims far, travels widely and promises big. iShares TIPS Bond is a bond fund, the part of a portfolio that is meant to be boring on purpose.
The birth certificate
iShares TIPS Bond's fund launch was on Thursday, December 4, 2003. 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 | Sagittarius, 12 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Aries, waxing gibbous |
| Mercury | Capricorn |
| Venus | Capricorn |
| Mars | Pisces |
| Jupiter | Virgo |
| Saturn | Cancer |
| Element and quality | Fire, Mutable |
| Life Path | 3 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Water Goat, Yin Metal |
| Archetype | The Opportunist |
Sun in Sagittarius
On that date the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius (12 degrees in), so TIP is a Sagittarius. In the tradition that is the archer, which aims far, travels widely and promises big. It also is optimistic in a way that needs supervision, which is less often put in the prospectus.
Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Sagittarius is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, TIP is fire and mutable.
The rest of the sky
The inner planets and the slow ones, as they stood for TIP: Mercury in Capricorn, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Pisces, Jupiter in Virgo and Saturn in Cancer. The Moon was in Aries, a placement that feels things instantly and is over them by lunch, at a waxing gibbous Moon, almost full, the phase of refining before the reveal.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 3: the talker, happiest with an audience. In BaZi, 2003 gives a Water Goat year, gentle, creative and fond of comfort, and a Day Master of Yin Metal, where metal cuts, refines and keeps its edges sharp.
Dates are given; names are picked. "iShares TIPS Bond" reduces to Expression 7 (the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 3; only its consonants for a Personality of 4.
TIP as a person
If iShares TIPS Bond typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Opportunist. That is the same engine, the same seven traditions and the same four questions a person gets.
Your chart vs iShares TIPS Bond's
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Its neighbours
- iShares Core US Aggregate Bond
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- iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond
- iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond
Questions people ask
What is iShares TIPS Bond's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 4, 2003, iShares TIPS Bond is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Aries and Life Path 3.
When was TIP born?
December 4, 2003, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict TIP?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal, and published the result: they do not.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart