He’s now even wealthier than the incredibly rich robber barons of the 19th century – and he’s the so called first buddy. So what can astrology tell us about the rise of Elon Musk and what’s next for him.
A clear connection with the US chart
Elon Musk has amazing synastry with the US. His Sun is exactly conjunct the country’s Jupiter, his Ascendant and Mercury are on the US’s natal Cancer Sun.
Like it or not he embodies and gives a voice to an aspect of the country.
Let’s look a bit closer at that American Sun and what it means to try to tease out who and what he speaks for.
America’s natal Sun in Cancer in the 7th house of relationships forms an exact square to Saturn in the 10th house in the country’s natal chart. It is a patriotic Sun, but being in the 7th house, it is also enmeshed with the “other”, it is concerned about others. And it wants to share its vision of the homeland with others.
If the country was a person this could speak of someone who cares deeply about relationships, but struggles to express it fully because of burdens and/or an ambition related to status. Or someone who expresses their views quite forcefully, because they think they know best.
So perhaps Elon Musk embodies the US’s need to care – and also to meddle. Cancerians can sometimes be quite self-interested and are often willing to go to great lengths to protect those they care about, those in the inner circle.
What is Elon Musk doing at the moment?
He is throwing his weight around, he is commenting on, trolling, governments in Europe, seemingly suggesting that he can influence elections and change the political winds on the continent.
Is he speaking for America? There are probably many in the country who agree with him, even though much of what he says is either ill-informed or actual misinformation.
Pluto playing a part
Part of the astrological reason for his rise to power is his synastry with the country he now speaks for.
But Pluto might also have had a role to play. As it’s traveled through the late degrees of Capricorn over the last few years it has sent a positive sextile to Elon Musk’s career point, the Midheaven, from his 7th house of relationships. His connections have been crucial to his success.
When Pluto is involved it means the fates are playing a part in this – exactly how this story ends remains to be seen though. What we are seeing now is the first act, the rise to power.
And Pluto has been generous. It has also sextiled Elon Musk’s lucky money making Jupiter in Scorpio in the 5th house of the gambler, trined his natal power-player Pluto in the 3rd house of communication and is now moving to a trine with his natal Saturn in the 11th house of groups – leadership.
The astrology suggests this has been a lucky period for the so called chief troll officer.
But what’s next?
Pluto’s journey through Aquarius over the next twenty years will reveal what the fates have planned for him. And just to caveat this, I’m not a fatalist, I believe we can bargain with the Gods and the choices we make are important, but as with many famous people a larger story is playing out through Elon Musk. He has chosen to play that role and that sometimes means being swept along by forces beyond his control.
The lessons of the Russian oligarchs
An astrologer might tell Elon Musk to watch out. His natal Sun is in his 12th house. That can sometimes speak of a spiritual person, a person connected to something larger than just the mundane. It is also a house that was traditionally linked with prisons and hospitals.
When the Soviet Union fell many people feasted on the ruins and took the country’s wealth as their own. They became the oligarchs, but the story didn’t end happily for many of them. Those who disagreed with Vladimir Putin or were seen to have become too powerful ended up dead or in prison.
Donald Trump has often expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin. Someone like Elon Musk might want to study the story of the oligarchs who flew too close to the sun. As the fates lift you up they can also tear you down.
A more challenging time ahead
In about four years transiting Pluto will start to form the apex of a yod with Elon Musk’s natal Sun and Moon. This is another astrological pattern that speaks of the Gods playing a part in the story. This aspect is also called an inconjunct, it can be difficult, uncomfortable and sometimes speaks of endings.
At the same time Pluto will cross the US’s South Node in the 2nd house of finances and security, sextiling revolutionary Uranus in the 6th house. This is a transit that could speak of financial turmoil causing an uprising of some kind. The US will also have its Uranus return, the last time this happened was when the US entered World War Two, the time before that was during the Civil War.
During this period and the years that follow Chiron and then Saturn will cross Elon Musk’s career point the Midheaven. Revolutionary Uranus will square his Moon from the 11th house of the people.
Then Pluto moves on to a conjunction with his point of fate, the North Node, and Mars in the complex 8th house in the 2030s.
Chiron in Aries
It’s interesting that Elon Musk’s rise to power coincides with his Chiron return – one of the astrological milestones in life – when we are faced with our wounds and weaknesses in our early fifties.
Elon Musk’s Chiron sits in the 9th house in Aries – a Chiron that speaks of a wounding around being the pioneer in a foreign land. His family emigrated to South Africa, a country that was segregated and suffered from deep inequalities.
He moved to the US – a country where those same wounds around equality and civil rights lie closer to the surface than many might want to acknowledge.
And the US has almost exactly the same Chiron placement as Elon Musk. It is just a few degrees later in Aries and in the 4th house of home in the country’s birth chart. His wound is also the nation’s wound.
It will be part of the story playing out over the next few years.
The transits coming up for Elon Musk could be described as challenging – but as always with astrology it is difficult to predict exactly how they will play out. And if he leans into his Chiron wound as the asteroid crosses his Midheaven, it is possible that he will be able to use that wound to speak to a part of the US population. Which part though?
Perhaps he will speak to the descendants of immigrants and settlers who voted for Trump, who are right leaning and who feel scared of and oppressed by the society that surrounds them. They are, just like his family, pioneers in a land where civil unrest lurks not far from the surface.
Musk comes from a country which for decades othered and dehumanised its black population. Where the wealthy shut themselves in gated compounds and drive from one heavily guarded place to the next. Violence still ripples through the country.
Is this where the US is heading? If so Elon Musk can draw on his experiences from having grown up in South Africa as he will understand what the US population is going through. He will understand this particular expression of Chiron in Aries.
But all of that will be more difficult if he falls out with Donald Trump. The two men have a very interesting composite chart with a Sun/Saturn conjunction in late Gemini in the 11th house trining a Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in early Scorpio right on the IC. Both placements also form a sextile with a first house Pluto in Virgo.
This is a fated relationship, a partnership allowing both men to becoming even wealthier. It will be severely tested as Pluto crosses its Ascendant/Descendant axis starting in 2027.
What is interesting is that the North Node in the composite chart sits at 17 degrees Aries in the 9th house, right in between Musk’s and the US’s natal Chiron.
It all comes back to the pioneer, the settler, themes that are so prominent in Donald Trump’s chart as well. Here we have the settlers, yet again conquering a foreign land, ready to crush all who oppose them and then there is the wound created (Chiron in Aries) in both those who oppress and conquer and crush and those who are oppressed.
What exactly does that wound look like? Perhaps a stuntedness and a myopic focus on the individual – an inability to work for balance, harmony and for holistic solutions that serve all (Libra).
Mega-wealth
If I was Elon Musk’s personal peppy astrologer I would suggest that he is now entering a period that will allow him to become even wealthier.
In March he will have a progressed New Moon conjunct progressed Venus in Leo in his second house of finances. This is the start of a new thirty year chapter in his life. For some reason the fates are clearly pushing him towards incredible wealth.
But why?
It doesn’t always end well for the people who throughout history have gone down this path. Astrologers have long spoken about Pluto in Aquarius being a time of revolutions. The last time Pluto worked his way through the sign of the people gross inequality lead to the wealthy being beheaded during the French revolution.
It doesn’t have to end that way this time. But that means those involved in this particular play by the fates have to make enlightened choices and think about what is best for the people (Aquarius) – all of the people – not just the ones that are part of the inner circle.
The people might of course also have a say in this too, and they have a will of their own. Take that Aries wounding too far and Libra will rise up to restore the balance.