XLU · fund launch · 1998
Utilities Select Sector is a Sagittarius
A chart that announces the destination before checking the map. Utilities Select Sector is a fund holding one slice of the economy, born on the same morning as its sibling funds.
The birth certificate
Utilities Select Sector's fund launch was on Wednesday, December 16, 1998. In financial astrology, that is the birthday, and XLU gets a chart like anyone else.
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 Opportunist |
Sun in Sagittarius
Sun in late Sagittarius (24 degrees in). That makes Utilities 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.
As an element, Fire. Fire signs run on enthusiasm: they start things, and they would like you to watch. As a quality, Mutable, which is the quality that closes each season and adapts to whatever comes next.
The rest of the sky
Under the Sun sign sits the Moon, in Scorpio here, and a Moon in Scorpio 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 planets: 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.
Numerology reads a name as well as a date. Spell out "Utilities Select Sector", give each letter its number and reduce, and you get Expression 7: the researcher, who wants to know why before anything else. The vowels alone give a Soul Urge of 11/2, the consonants a Personality of 5.
XLU as a person
Feed XLU's date to the archetype engine, the one that gives you your title, and it comes back The Opportunist. Whether that fits is a matter for its shareholders' group chat.
Your chart vs Utilities Select Sector's
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Read XLU against your own chart
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Born the same day
Utilities Select Sector shares its birthday, and so its whole chart, with 8 others, including:
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Questions people ask
What is Utilities Select Sector's zodiac sign?
By its launch on December 16, 1998, Utilities Select Sector is a Sagittarius, with its Moon in Scorpio and Life Path 1.
When was XLU born?
December 16, 1998, according to our hand-checked asset registry, at the New York open.
Can astrology predict XLU?
No. What a chart gives Utilities Select Sector is a temperament. Whether charts move prices is a question we tested in public, and the answer was no.
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