XLF · fund launch · 1998
Financial Select Sector is a Sagittarius
A chart that announces the destination before checking the map. Financial Select Sector is a fund holding one slice of the economy, born on the same morning as its sibling funds.
The birth certificate
Financial Select Sector's fund launch was on Wednesday, December 16, 1998. That is the day XLF arrived in public, so that is the day its chart is cast for.
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
Sagittarius, late Sagittarius (24 degrees in): Financial Select Sector shares a sign with the archer, ruled by Jupiter. Read as a personality, it announces the destination before checking the map. Read less kindly, it is optimistic in a way that needs supervision.
Its element is Fire. Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Its quality is mutable, 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. Financial Select Sector has it in Scorpio, which feels everything and admits to none of it. That day brought a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation, with Mercury in Sagittarius, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Libra, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Aries.
The numbers
Two more traditions, two more opinions. BaZi calls the year Earth Tiger, bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly, and the day Yin Fire, because fire warms the room and burns through fuel. Numerology reduces the date to Life Path 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted.
Then there is the name, which is the part of the chart a company chose. By Pythagorean numerology "Financial Select Sector" is Expression 6, the caretaker, responsible for everyone whether they asked or not, with Soul Urge 5 and Personality 1.
XLF as a person
The reveal names people by letting seven traditions vote on four questions: move first or wait, this year or the next ten, one thing or many, out loud or in private. Run XLF's birth date through it and the tally says The Founder.
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Born the same day
Financial Select Sector shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with 8 others, including:
Other Sagittarius charts
Questions people ask
What is Financial Select Sector's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 16, 1998, Financial Select Sector is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 1.
When was XLF born?
December 16, 1998, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict XLF?
No. Financial Select Sector's chart describes a character, not a price. We ran the test on charts and returns ourselves, and found nothing.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart