XLB · fund launch · 1998
Materials Select Sector is a Sagittarius
A chart that aims far, travels widely and promises big. Materials Select Sector is a fund holding one slice of the economy, born on the same morning as its sibling funds.
The birth certificate
Materials Select Sector's fund launch was on Wednesday, December 16, 1998. 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, 24 degrees |
|---|---|
| Moon sign | Scorpio, waning crescent |
| Mercury | Sagittarius |
| Venus | Capricorn |
| Mars | Libra |
| Jupiter | Pisces |
| Saturn | Aries |
| Element and quality | Fire, Mutable |
| Life Path | 1 |
| BaZi year and Day Master | Earth Tiger, Yin Fire |
| Archetype | The Founder |
Sun in Sagittarius
On that date the Sun was in late Sagittarius (24 degrees in), so XLB 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.
Mutable Fire: that is the short version of Materials Select Sector. The long version is that the sign is mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next, and that fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch.
The rest of the sky
If the Sun is the public face, the Moon is what Materials Select Sector does when nobody is watching. Here it is in Scorpio, which feels everything and admits to none of it. Sky notes for the record: a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation; Mercury in Sagittarius, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Libra, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Aries.
The numbers
Add the date's digits and reduce them and you get Life Path 1: the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted. In BaZi, 1998 gives an Earth Tiger year, bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly, and a Day Master of Yin Fire, where fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
The name gets a vote too. "Materials Select Sector" adds up to an Expression number of 8, the executive, the number numerology ties most closely to money and power. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 1 and its Personality (consonants only) is 7.
XLB as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given Materials Select Sector's birth date, it returns The Founder.
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Born the same day
Materials Select Sector shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with 8 others, including:
Other Sagittarius charts
Its neighbours
Questions people ask
What is Materials Select Sector's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 16, 1998, Materials Select Sector is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 1.
When was XLB born?
December 16, 1998, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict XLB?
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