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Elon Musk
He poured everything he had made from PayPal into rockets and electric cars. The rocket fell three times. The money ran out, and a divorce came on top of it. In 2008 — the year he himself calls the worst of his life — the fourth launch took place on 28 September. That day, for the first time, a privately built rocket reached orbit around the Earth. Why did it arrive in the very year he was most cornered?
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Elon Musk — Founder of Tesla and SpaceX
- Period analysed
- 1971–2025
- Three pillars
- Day 甲申 / Month 甲午 / Year 辛亥
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat)
- Destiny area
- 0.77 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny is a type in which a great tree, growing stronger the harder it is tempered, holds the power to convey at its centre.
- For ten years from the age of twenty-eight, the path of his fate and the place of his work merged on the largest possible scale.
- Venture after venture was born, and in return his own strength was poured out to the last.
- The final year of that decade was also a year in which the more he sought wealth, the deeper the drain became.
- In that most cornered year, the rocket reached space.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did the rocket reach orbit in the worst year of his life?
- Why were five ventures concentrated into a single decade?
- What overlapped on 28 September 2008?
- What was inscribed in his bonds of marriage and children?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1995 | 乙亥 | Founds Zip2 with his brother Kimbal |
| 1999 | 己卯 | Sells Zip2 and founds X.com |
| 2002 | 壬午■ | Founds SpaceX |
| 2004 | 甲申 | Invests in Tesla and becomes chairman |
| 2008 | 戊子 | 2 Aug — the third Falcon 1 launch fails |
| 2008 | 戊子 | 28 Sep — the fourth launch reaches Earth orbit |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. ■ = void year.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The four layers of 28 September 2008
- The worst year
- The decade of the great fusion
- Bonds and succession
- Paired stars and the single remark
- Independent systems
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii