WOOD · fund launch · 2008
iShares Global Timber & Forestry is a Cancer
A chart that protects its own and remembers everything. iShares Global Timber & Forestry is a fund tied to physical stuff, the kind that gets mined, grown or pumped, filed under Commodities.
The birth certificate
iShares Global Timber & Forestry's fund launch was on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and WOOD gets a chart like anyone else.
Source: Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
| Sun sign | Cancer, 4 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Pisces, last quarter |
| Mercury | Gemini |
| Venus | Cancer |
| Mars | Leo |
| Jupiter | Capricorn |
| Saturn | Virgo |
| Element and quality | Water, Cardinal |
| Life Path | 5 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Rat, Yang Fire |
| Archetype | The Opportunist |
Sun in Cancer
The Sun sat in early Cancer (4 degrees in). Cancer is the crab, ruled by the Moon: a sign that protects its own and remembers everything. For iShares Global Timber & Forestry that reads as a character that carries its home on its back and decorates it, and one that takes a comment from 2014 personally, still.
Cardinal Water: that is the short version of iShares Global Timber & Forestry. The long version is that the sign is cardinal, the quality that opens each season and likes to go first, and that water signs run on feeling: they read the room before they read the numbers.
The rest of the sky
The Moon was in Pisces, which soaks up whatever mood is in the room. It was a last quarter Moon, half lit and shrinking, read as a time of letting go of the old version. The rest of the sky that day: Mercury in Gemini, Venus in Cancer, Mars in Leo, Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Earth Rat, quick, resourceful and first to the food, and the day Yang Fire, because fire warms the room and burns through fuel. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 5, the free spirit, bored by anything that stays the same.
The name gets a vote too. "iShares Global Timber & Forestry" adds up to an Expression number of 6, the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 11/2 and its Personality (consonants only) is 4.
WOOD as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given iShares Global Timber & Forestry's birth date, it returns The Opportunist.
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Questions people ask
What is iShares Global Timber & Forestry's zodiac sign?
By its launch on June 25, 2008, iShares Global Timber & Forestry is a Cancer, with its Moon in Pisces and Life Path 5.
When was WOOD born?
June 25, 2008, according to Yahoo Finance's recorded first-trade date, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict WOOD?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart