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VPL · fund launch · 2005

Vanguard FTSE Pacific is a Pisces

A chart that sells a feeling better than a spec sheet. Vanguard FTSE Pacific is a way into markets outside the United States, listed in New York, filed under International.

The birth certificate

Vanguard FTSE Pacific's fund launch was on Thursday, March 10, 2005. Astrologers who read companies use exactly this date as the moment of birth.

Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.

Sun signPisces, 20 degrees
Moon signPisces, new Moon
MercuryAries
VenusPisces
MarsCapricorn
JupiterLibra
SaturnCancer
Element and qualityWater, Mutable
Life Path11/2
BaZi year and Day MasterWood Rooster, Yin Water
ArchetypeThe Gardener

Sun in Pisces

On that date the Sun was in late Pisces (20 degrees in), so VPL is a Pisces. In the tradition that is the two fish, which imagines, absorbs and dissolves the boundaries. It also swims in two directions and calls it strategy, which is less often put in the prospectus.

As an element, Water. Water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers. As a quality, Mutable, which is the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.

The rest of the sky

Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. Vanguard FTSE Pacific has it in Pisces, which soaks up whatever mood is in the room. That day brought a new Moon, the dark start of the lunar month, which astrologers read as a clean slate, with Mercury in Aries, Venus in Pisces, Mars in Capricorn, Jupiter in Libra and Saturn in Cancer.

The numbers

Numerology gives Vanguard FTSE Pacific Life Path 11/2, a master number, the visionary who picks up signals nobody else hears. The Chinese calendar gives it a Wood Rooster year (precise, proud and up before everyone), and its Day Master, the element of the day itself, is Yin Water: water finds the way around whatever is in front of it.

Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Vanguard FTSE Pacific", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 5: the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 11/2, the consonants a Personality of 3.

VPL as a person

Feed VPL's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Gardener. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.

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Born the same day

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Questions people ask

What is Vanguard FTSE Pacific's zodiac sign?

By its launch on March 10, 2005, Vanguard FTSE Pacific is a Pisces, with its Moon in Pisces and Life Path 11/2.

When was VPL born?

March 10, 2005, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.

Can astrology predict VPL?

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