XLI · fund launch · 1998
Industrial Select Sector is a Sagittarius
A chart that aims far, travels widely and promises big. Industrial Select Sector is a fund holding one slice of the economy, born on the same morning as its sibling funds.
The birth certificate
Industrial Select Sector's fund launch was on Wednesday, December 16, 1998. That is the day XLI 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
Sun in late Sagittarius (24 degrees in). That makes Industrial Select Sector a Sagittarius, the archer, a sign that announces the destination before checking the map. The ruler is Jupiter. The known bug is that it is optimistic in a way that needs supervision.
Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. Sagittarius is also mutable, the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next. Put together, XLI is fire and mutable.
The rest of the sky
The Moon was in Scorpio, which feels everything and admits to none of it. It was a waning crescent, the last sliver before dark, read as rest and quiet preparation. The rest of the sky that day: Mercury in Sagittarius, Venus in Capricorn, Mars in Libra, Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Aries.
The numbers
Life Path 1 for Industrial Select Sector, which numerology calls the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted. In BaZi terms: an Earth Tiger year (bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly) and a Yin Fire Day Master, because fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
Dates are given; names are picked. "Industrial Select Sector" reduces to Expression 1 (the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted). Count only its vowels for a Soul Urge of 7; only its consonants for a Personality of 3.
XLI as a person
If Industrial Select Sector typed its birth date into NatalWealth, the engine that names people would call it The Founder. That is the same engine, the same seven traditions and the same four questions a person gets.
Your chart vs Industrial Select Sector's
Put in your birthday and see how your chart gets on with XLI's, plus the next day tradition marks for the two of you.
Read XLI against your own chart
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Born the same day
Industrial Select Sector shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with 8 others, including:
Other Sagittarius charts
- Live Nation Entertainment
- SPDR Dow Jones Intl Real Estate ETF
- SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond
- iShares J.P. Morgan EM Bond
Questions people ask
What is Industrial Select Sector's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 16, 1998, Industrial Select Sector is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 1.
When was XLI born?
December 16, 1998, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict XLI?
No. What a chart gives Industrial Select Sector is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
A personality read of a date, not a forecast, and not advice. How we tested charts against returns · Every birth chart