Elon Musk
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), aged 55, is an American businessman. Musk has served as chief executive officer and co-president. Musk's honours include Time Person of the Year, Order of Defence Merit and Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization.
Elon Musk’s zodiac sign is Cancer, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Cancer, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Elon
Elon Musk’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Visionary
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Elon in the U.S.?
#1780
US rank in 2025
~3,633
Americans share it since 1885
2021
its peak year
In 1971, 10 American boys and 5 girls were registered Elon — 3,210th among boys and 8,704th among girls on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Elon’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on E (5) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 3 and 5: voice against movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Elon’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Monday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Pearl, Pearl, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌹 Rose · 🤍 Jasmine · 🤍 White Magnolia
Rose pink · Pearl · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1971, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Elon apart
The Edison Awards came in 2014, when Elon Musk was 43.
The schooling ran through Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Pretoria Boys High School.
Elon Musk was 24 when the work began in 1995.
On the family side, Elon Musk was born to Maye Musk and Errol Musk, married Talulah Riley and Justine Musk and raised 5 children.
On Wikipedia the categories read American businesspeople in the energy industry and Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School.
Muhammad Yunus (1940) and Maria Göppert Mayer (1906) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- Waterkloof House Preparatory School, Pretoria Boys High School and Smith School of Business
- Awards
- Time Person of the Year (2021), Time 100 (2018) and Axel Springer Award (2020)
- Working from
- 1995
- Citizenship
- Canada and United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 201
What the chart says
Elon, according to the stars
Core essence
Elon feels the room before entering it. The core of Elon is care, the practical kind that remembers what you said in March and has already made the tea. They protect their people with a fierceness that surprises anyone who only knew the soft exterior. Home is not a place for Elon, it is whoever they have decided to keep.
The vibe
Underneath, Elon is quietly running a checklist, and half of it is about you. The Moon in Virgo feels care as responsibility: did you eat, did you get home, is the thing you were worried about handled. What Elon needs to feel safe is order and the sense of being useful. Let them help, and thank them properly.
How Elon wants to be loved
Elon wants to be loved in conversation. Venus in Gemini falls for a mind first: the banter, the shared joke, the person who keeps them guessing a little. Attention is the love language and boredom is the enemy. Keep talking to Elon like it is the first week, and it can feel like it for years.
How Elon creates
How Elon makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Elon builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Elon is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Elon is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Elon goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Elon's birth date. Working below.
Where Elon sits
Six lines
Elon’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Elon Musk
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Pretoria on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Pretoria that night
Computed for 25.75°S, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Pretoria was Dschubba, in Scorpius, 80.1° up.
Of the 69 catalog stars above the horizon, Rigil Kentaurus was the brightest.
Pretoria sits at 25.7°S, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The Moon was at first quarter, 32% lit, and above the horizon, with the Sun 47° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Pretoria, South Africa
- Lives in
- Kingston · Bel Air
Wikidata records Kingston and Bel Air as Elon Musk's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Elon Musk: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Elon's chart is
Chart pattern score
10 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Cancer Sun
Cancer SunFeeds you before you ask.
Elon Musk's Sun was in Cancer for the whole of June 28, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Cancer means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Elon Musk's birth date, June 28, 1971, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Elon’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Elon Musk's date-only chart is Saturn opposition Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Elon Musk combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Visionary.
Elon’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 4° to 16° Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSaturnoppositionNeptune0.3° to 0.4° orb
Elon’s discipline pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
stableJupitersextilePluto0.5° to 0.6° orb
Elon’s growth opens doors for their depths.
stableVenustrineMars0.8° to 1.8° orb
Elon’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableSunsquareUranus2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb
stableJupiteroppositionSaturn3.4° to 3.6° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.7° orb
stableMercurysquareUranus3.9° to 6.0° orb
stableSaturntrinePluto4.0° to 4.1° orb
stableMarssquareJupiter6.6° to 6.8° orb
possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.0° to 9.9° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 8.9° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air4 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.
Elon’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironAries 13°42′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresGemini 26°31′ (moves 0.43° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosCancer 10°43′ (moves 0.91° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 22°42′ (moves 0.32° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 3°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres square Pluto 0.6°
- Chiron square Mercury 0.8°
- Eros square Uranus 1.2°
- Hygiea opposition Mars 1.8°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Neptune 2.4°
- Black Moon Lilith square Sun 2.9°
Elon’s dominant planets
1. ☽ Moon5 pts
rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury
2. ♃ Jupiter5 pts
disposes Neptune; 4 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury4 pts
disposes Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 1 major aspect
Configurations in Elon’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 0.1°
- Mars biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury biquintile Mars 0.5°
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.6°
- Sun biquintile Neptune 0.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.3°
- Mercury semi-square Saturn 1.7°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter 1.8°
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- Jauan JenningsAmerican football wide receiver
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Born in Pig years
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Also born on June 28
- Muhammad Yunus1940
- Maria Göppert Mayer1906
- Kevin De Bruyne1991
- Itamar Franco1930
- Markiplier1989
- Kathy Bates1948
Fellow Yang Wood day masters
- Harsh Mariwala
- Lionel MessiArgentine association football player
- Angela MerkelChancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
Other Cancer Pig charts
- Ludwig AhgrenAmerican YouTuber and streamer
- Michelle BranchAmerican singer, songwriter and musician
- Harrison ButkerAmerican football player (born 1995)
- CherylBritish singer, dancer, and television presenter
Other Evergreen Visionarys
- Peter O'TooleBritish-Irish actor
- Peter SellersBritish actor and comedian
- Wayne MorrisAmerican actor
- Arthur KennedyAmerican actor
Famous people with Life Path 7
- Roman AninMoldovan investigative journalist
- Justin ChangAmerican film critic
- Alfred AustinBritish writer and poet
From the journal: Is astrology a science? · Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Elon’s cards
Computed from June 28, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen VisionaryWestern zodiac
CancerChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker☾ Ruled by Moon
Silver Ag
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
甲
yang Wood
午
Horse
Fire
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
申
Monkey
Metal
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Elon’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q317521 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Elon Musk at Wikipedia, IMDb, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Elon Musk.
Quick answers about Elon Musk’s chart
- How old is Elon Musk?
- Elon Musk is 55 years old, born June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa.
- What zodiac sign is Elon Musk?
- Elon Musk is a Cancer: born June 28, 1971, which puts the Sun in Cancer for the whole of that day.
- What is Elon Musk's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the June 28, 1971 birth.
- What is Elon Musk's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Elon Musk's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Elon Musk's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 3°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Elon Musk's dominant planet?
- Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (5 points: rules the Sun sign, Cancer; disposes Sun, Mercury). Jupiter is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
