XLK · fund launch · 1998
Technology Select Sector is a Sagittarius
A chart that aims far, travels widely and promises big. Technology Select Sector is a fund holding one slice of the economy, born on the same morning as its sibling funds.
The birth certificate
Technology Select Sector's fund launch was on Wednesday, December 16, 1998. Financial astrology treats that moment as a birth and casts a chart for it, the same way it would for you.
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): Technology 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.
Mutable Fire: that is the short version of Technology 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
Astrology reads the Moon as the private mood behind the public face. Technology 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
Numerology gives Technology Select Sector Life Path 1, the self-starter who would rather lead than be consulted. The Chinese calendar gives it an Earth Tiger year (bold, restless and keen to arrive loudly), and its Day Master, the element of the day itself, is Yin Fire: fire warms the room and burns through fuel.
The name gets a vote too. "Technology Select Sector" adds up to an Expression number of 7, the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. Its Soul Urge (vowels only) is 11/2 and its Personality (consonants only) is 5.
XLK as a person
NatalWealth's archetype engine does not know it is reading a ticker. Given Technology Select Sector's birth date, it returns The Founder.
Your chart vs Technology Select Sector's
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Born the same day
Technology Select Sector shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with 8 others, including:
Other Sagittarius charts
- BBVA (ADR)
- Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond
- Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond
- Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury
Questions people ask
What is Technology Select Sector's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 16, 1998, Technology Select Sector is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 1.
When was XLK born?
December 16, 1998, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict XLK?
No, and we checked. Charts read as personalities; as a return signal, in our own published tests, they come up empty.
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