Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa. He is a 甲 yang Wood day master which means his money element is Earth and Earth is definitely strong in South Africa. Elon was born into money. Earth is his money, wife/girlfriend/baby mama and success element. Elon’s Ba Zi has a lot of interesting features which makes it a good chart for research.
The Elon Musk who seemed to be a goofy inventor, visionary and entrepreneur with a dream of going to Mars has changed. Prior to 2018 he moved from project to project without really accomplishing long term goals he claimed, but he was still a rock star in certain circles.
Elon’s external presentation is just that – external. His power element is unhealthy, and he isn’t as smart as people think he is, yet he is able to have all these helpful (to him) relationships. This has become a concern for all of us. Elon Musk has transformed.
Let’s Go For a (Death) Drive
If you’ve read earlier work from me, you will have seen me write about how sometimes a Ba Zi will inspire a phrase or name for the situation. The phrase that comes to mind for Elon Musk is “Death Drive”. He is willing to sacrifice himself, so he is willing to sacrifice you too. It’s one of his addictions. This sacrifice is on behalf of some cause that only he knows about and only he can save us from – money. You might want to think about this for a second.
Elon’s probably salivating over this new asteroid that will potentially crash into earth in 2032, imagining space lasers he can get people to invest in. He thinks that you should be able to survive whatever he thinks he can survive. He wants to rescue you and he wants you to accept it. Like JD Vance, he wants you to show some appreciation. Elon’s purpose here has to do with sacrificing himself for our well being, at least that’s how he sees it.
Prior to 2018, Elon’s death drive didn’t stand out as much as it does now. In 2018 Elon was transformed, and in his Ba Zi this is quite literal. His self element has transformed. Elon’s day stem is 甲 yang Wood and in 2018 it transformed into Earth. Elon’s self has turned into his money element. The flow of his current ten year luck means the favorable elements are Fire and Earth. He is following money, success, and partners who will bear his male children*. It seems he selects for biological male children using IVF as a way to secure his future.
When the self element transforms in a Ba Zi, we can expect the person to undergo some dramatic changes of personality and circumstance. There are special energetic conditions required for it to take place. If the transformation comes through timing, as it does for Elon, we know this special time he is in cannot last.
Ba Zi of Elon Musk
b. June 28 1971 at 07:30 am
| Life House | Hour | Day | Month | Year | Big Fate | ||
| yang Wood | yang Earth | yang Wood | yang Wood | yin Metal | yin Earth | ||
| 甲 | 戊 | 甲 | 甲 | 辛 | 己 | ||
| 午 | 辰 | 申 | 午 | 亥 | 丑 | ||
| Horse | Dragon | Monkey | Horse | Pig | Ox |
The Root of All Evil
Part of what makes this a special time for him is that Elon’s Noblemen signs are also Earth, and he is currently in the luck of 己丑 Earth Ox – a whole pillar of Earth that he can combine with. This is some serious good luck, obviously, as his other Nobleman is 未 Sheep and the Sheep is Earth but it might ruin his ability to surrender to the flow of money.
About that – in the long run, it may be that the male friends Elon wants so badly are the ones who reap the most reward from his actions. When this timing ends, things will be very different for Elon. He is not as protected as his friends are from the legal consequences of his actions.
Right now, Elon’s self has transformed to Earth. This will end in 2028.
What happened in 2018 that seemed to show the first signs of the transformation? That was the beginning of Elon’s current 10 year luck of Earth Ox. This is when Elon negotiated a $56 billion pay package as the CEO of Tesla and became the richest person in the world. Tesla shareholders voted in favor of this compensation not once but twice.
In June of 2018, Richard Tornetta, a Tesla shareholder, filed a lawsuit against Elon over his compensation. He accused Elon of wanting the compensation package to “fund his personal ambition to colonize Mars”.
In January 2024, Elon was found to have improperly controlled the board of Tesla to get what he wanted having used false and misleading statements and the $56 billion compensation package was rescinded.
In March 2025 Elon appealed the judgement, again trying to get the money. In 2025, Elon is having money problems in the months of 寅 Tiger and 卯 Rabbit, worrying about loans being called in as his Tesla stock falls. The worst elements for him right now are probably 金 Metal and 木 Wood. The 辛巳 Metal Snake month that covers most of May 2025 should be interesting…
Once you know Elon’s money element is Earth, you will notice that there is lots of money in Elon’s hour pillar. We can also see that he feels comfortable taking risks with it, in the same sense that he feels comfortable being careless with his children.
The Hour pillar also speaks to his affairs with the wives of friends. For a cisgender male, the money element is the same as the wife or success element. There are lots of women in Elon’s current luck, and in his life, but only two wives. This lines up with the Hidden Stems of his Ba Zi. I very much doubt he will ever marry again.
What else can be said about the Earth Dragon in the hour then? His children make him feel successful, more so than any relationship. He sees the children as a prize or booty. He sees women as interchangeable; there’s always another mother coming along. His spouse palace confirms this.
Lessons Not Learned
For a man, the power element relates to their children. Sons are most important to Elon, much more important than daughters. He wants to show them off to indicate he is a good guy, a rule following guy, so we see them in the year stem. The Metal is too weak so no one believes this.
The daughters are best hidden away (see the 申 Monkey in the spouse palace) because they remind him of the important rules he is breaking. He wants to control them but he can’t. He feels attacked by them in a personal way. We might say, this is also why he doesn’t want a wife who would influence him.
Elon is most in love with his work and his creations but this doesn’t mean he takes care of them. This may be a lesson he learned when his parents divorced, right around the time Elon began his first Da Yun or Big Fate of 癸巳 Water Snake in 1978.
During that ten year period, around age 10, he was asked to make a decision about whether he would live with his mother or his father. He chose Dad. This turned out to be a mistake, but a child should never be asked to make this kind of choice. During this time he was also sent to veldskool, deprived of food and brutally beaten. The Snake, who is now the boss of the year, clashes his emotional and physical health (亥 Pig), and compromises his aggressive agency (申 Monkey). His first big life lesson was like that too. Ouch.
Elon experienced a lot of physical abuse and beatings in his youth. Other than the multiple surgeries he has had to fix his face, nose and neck, the physical consequences of having been beaten, as well as injured in a sumo wrestling match don’t seem to change his death drive in the slightest.
In 2013, a 癸巳 Water Snake year, he attempted to perform a judo throw on a 350 lb sumo wrestler. This happened at his 42nd birthday celebration. In January of 2025 Elon had another surgery to try to alleviate the pain in his neck resulting from this error in judgement. In fact it seems he may have had five surgeries to deal with his self inflicted injury. When the 巳 Snake is present, Elon gets hurt. This could be changed by his choices.
Elon’s day pillar tells us he has to make a lot of decisions in life and his year pillar explains that many of them have been reactive mistakes, based on emotion. Maybe that is why he thinks empathy is so problematic. I don’t usually think of mistakes as a problem, but I don’t see any significant learning happening for him. He survives things, there have been no real consequences for his bad behavior so far, at least not in his mind, or not as it relates to the law. I think consequences help us to learn.
Elon does things purposely and with his three self clash signs of 亥 Pig, 午 Horse and 辰 Dragon, I think people do get annoyed with him. I don’t think that justifies the way he was treated as a child, however, I think it should be acknowledged that some people make themselves a focus of conflict through their behavior and lack of learning. Could it be that Elon enjoys being the focus of conflict? Some people do.
Maybe it’s really Elon’s friends or parents that are the problem, or at least that might be how he would explain it. He craves deep connections with men and he would probably be a different guy if he could ever enjoy that, but he seems to pick the wrong people to be friends with, and then he gives too much. He gets used and discarded, this seems to be a pattern that was set in the time he was growing up. People think he is useful for a time, but then he becomes too annoying and gets kicked to the curb.
Other points of interest:
- Elon experiences what Lily Chung calls the Bouncing Star so we see him having big ups and downs and literally jumping in the air.
- The Growth Palace of his current Fate highlights the malign vitality of his actions, which some people try to explain away as his “nerdiness”. It’s a Peter Pan type of energy and it’s not cute.
- Elon, like Trump, has a Heavenly Pardon Pillar in his month pillar. It’s the same one Trump has.
Trump carries Elon’s nobleman sign, Elon carries Trump’s. - Elon and Trump’s day stems combine.
- Trump’s day stem is yin Earth, in fact his whole day pillar is Earth. That’s Elon’s money.
- Elon’s Ming Gua is 2, yin Earth. This is the number in the center of the Lo Shu this year
- Elon will probably try to continue to follow earth even after 2028.
I don’t think things are going to go so well for Elon this year. Next year may be a different story. This means we have a window of opportunity now to get him out of the government. We may not have the right timing to see him face significant consequences of his actions for some time, if at all.
Of course some of this is up to all of us and that’s the rest of the story.
*Learn those 十神 shi shen y’all! (AKA shifting palace or 10 Gods)