VGK · fund launch · 2005
Vanguard FTSE Europe is a Pisces
A chart that imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. Vanguard FTSE Europe is a way into markets outside the United States, listed in New York, filed under International.
The birth certificate
Vanguard FTSE Europe's fund launch was on Thursday, March 10, 2005. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and VGK gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Pisces, 20 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Pisces, new Moon |
| Mercury | Aries |
| Venus | Pisces |
| Mars | Capricorn |
| Jupiter | Libra |
| Saturn | Cancer |
| Element and quality | Water, Mutable |
| Life Path | 11/2 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Wood Rooster, Yin Water |
| Archetype | The Gardener |
Sun in Pisces
The Sun sat in late Pisces (20 degrees in). Pisces is the two fish, ruled by Jupiter and Neptune: a sign that imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. For Vanguard FTSE Europe that reads as a character that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet, and one that swims in two directions and calls it strategy.
Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. Pisces is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, VGK is water and mutable.
The rest of the sky
The Moon was in Pisces, which soaks up whatever mood is in the room. It was a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate. The rest of the sky that day: Mercury in Aries, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Cancer.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Wood Rooster, precise, proud and up before everyone, and the day Yin Water, because water finds the way around whatever is in front of it. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 11/2, a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Vanguard FTSE Europe" reduces to Expression 11/2 (a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 11/2; only its consonants for a Personality of 9.
VGK as a person
If Vanguard FTSE Europe typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Gardener. That is the same engine, the same seven traditions and the same four questions a person gets.
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Born the same day
Vanguard FTSE Europe shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with one other asset:
Other Pisces charts
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Questions people ask
What is Vanguard FTSE Europe's zodiac sign?
By its launch on March 10, 2005, Vanguard FTSE Europe is a Pisces, with its Moon in Pisces and Life Path 11/2.
When was VGK born?
March 10, 2005, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict VGK?
Not in any way we could measure. We tested charts against returns and published it: no signal. VGK'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