Elon Musk and Mars at the Bending of the Nodes
While doing some research on the Nodes, I stumbled upon rather curious occurrences regarding Elon Musk.
It seems like Musk is getting major successes or making significant steps towards reaching his goals, when Mars is at the bending of the Nodes (another way to say that Mars is making a square to the Lunar Nodes). Though, there were some instances were failures also occurred.
I have not noted a specific pattern correlated to whether Mars was situated at the Northern or Southern Bending, but there is probably more to investigate in that regard.
Here is Elon Musk’s chart :
Elon Musk, June 28th 1971, 07h30, Pretoria
As you can see, he isn’t born on a Mars square Nodes time, but rather with a (fairly wide) conjunction between Mars and the North Node.
From a symbolical standpoint it is also quite fitting given his obsession about Mars’ conquest, more so that Mars is also the ruler of his 10th House (of career/public recognition).
So here is a small list of events related to him when Mars was squaring the Nodes (in a mundane way, unless it is specified otherwise) :
Falcon 9 failures
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is a partially reusable space launch vehicle. So far it has made 658 total launches with 2 failures.
Those 2 failures happened when Mars was at the bending of the Nodes.
On June 28th 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 explodes after taking off for a resupply mission to the ISS. Mars was squaring the Nodes, within around 2° orb.
On September 1st 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets explodes during a firing test. Mars was squaring the Nodes, within around 1° orb.
Another interesting data is that its first launch happened on June 4th 2010, here are the transits for Elon Musk at that time :
Transits for Elon Musk on June 4th 2010
While it is a slightly different configuration than the one being discussed, it is nonetheless interesting to see the prominence of the Nodes as they are on its Ascendant-Descendant Axis. We can also observe transiting Mercury squaring his natal Mars/Nodes.
Various successes
In December 1984, at age 13, Musk sold a video game (Blastar) he created the previous year to a PC magazine and won around 500 dollars. While I did not find the exact day of the issue of the magazine, between December 20th and 23rd of 1984, Mars was, within 1° orb, squaring the Nodes.
On March 30th 2017, SpaceX achieves the world’s first reflight of an orbital-class rocket. Mars would only be at the bending 20 days later, but in Elon’s birth chart, transiting Mars was actually at the bending of his natal Nodes, with less than 1° orb :
Transits for Elon Musk on March 30th 2017
On October 22nd 2019, Elon Musk sends his first tweet using SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet. Mars is exactly squaring the Nodes.
On April 4th 2022, public disclosure that Musk has acquired about 9,2% of Twitter making him the largest individual shareholder. Mars is squaring the Nodes within around 1° orb.
On April 25th 2022, he reaches the agreement to fully acquire Twitter. This time the transiting Nodes were actually squaring his natal Mars.
On May 25th 2023, the FDA approves Neuralink’s first human clinical study of brain implants. Mars is at the bending of the Nodes, with 1° orb.
On January 29th 2024, Neuralink announces it has implemented its brain-computer interface in a human for the first time. Mars is squaring the Nodes with less than 1° orb.
On September 12th 2024, an american billionaire becomes the first person to perform a commercial spacewalk as part of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight which is operated by SpaceX. Mars is squaring the Nodes with less than 2° orb.
On June 12th 2026, SpaceX made its IPO, which, to my understanding, is the largest one in history so far. Transiting Mars was making a square to his natal Nodes, though it was around a 3° orb.
Next occurrences
The next two times Mars will be at the bending of the Nodes (within a 2° orb) are :
- from June 28th to July 2nd 2026, so currently.
- from September 16th to September 20th 2027.
We will see if any notable news related to Musk and/or his companies emerge.
Taking it further
It could be interesting to gather more data on natives who have a planet conjunct/square the Nodes and whether or not when that transiting planet is at the bendings of the transiting Nodes some major events unfold.
