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The Fourth Rocket – decoding reality with Magi Astrology

Writer: Sven Carlsson
Sven Carlsson
Sep 26
8 min read
Graphic showing Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell watching the lauch of the fourth rocket
The fourth Space X rocket launch confirmed Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell were on the path to success

The fourth Space X rocket launch was fast approaching and if this one failed as well, it would be curtains for Elon Musk's company. Perhaps all bad things come in threes – this time it might work, like how a plastic lighter works once you've shaken it.

At the end of September 2008, the fourth rocket turned out a total success - then NASA called Elon Musk just before Christmas, telling him he had won a $1.6 billion contract.

Here we decode the hidden layer of reality beneath this amazing story, using Magi Astrology.

Apart from Elon Musk, the rocket launch dates and the incorporation date of Space X there’s another significant factor, Gwynne Shotwell, who with a brain-surgeon father and an artist mother is probably as close to a real-world “rocket surgeon” we’ll ever get.

It’s been said that while Elon Musk provided the technical vision and high-stakes funding, she was the operational mastermind who closed the deal that saved the company.

Let’s start with how her and Elon’s celestial energies combine.


Musk and Shotwell CAC

When we look at the interaction of two people, we use a so-called Combined Alignment Chart – or CAC for short. His planets are black and hers are red.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Elon and Gwynne have great celestial mechanics together, including a Chiron-Jupiter conjunction, which translates as successful business. There is also space (Uranus) vehicle (Mercury) engineering (Pallas).

Her Jupiter is conjunct Elon’s Chiron – and this is one of the best business aspects you can have, meaning success (Jupiter) in career and how you make a living (Chiron).

There is another clue as how important Gwynne is: Elon’s Chiron is not connected to his Uranus, to the far left in the picture.

Uranus represents aviation, space exploration, fame and engineering – and Gwynne’s Mercury, representing communication, mathematics and intelligence – connects his Chiron to his Uranus, I call this “bridging,” as well as to his Pallas, at the top.

Pallas represents mindset, strategy, logic and reasoning.

You'll also notice that at the middle to the right, we have another dimension, the declinations. There’s a green line between the red Jupiter and the black Uranus: this means that Gwynne helps Elon’s industry and aviation – again, an understatement. She saved it.

This image, this CAC, shows the engine room behind the success of Space X.

It’s an image of a hidden layer of reality – and we have just decoded it.


Flight One - decoding a reality of tragedy

On 24 March 2006, a fuel leak caused a fire seconds after the rocket was launched.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
The day of the first launch was a day (Sun) of emotional (Moon) tragedy (Saturn).

There was an exact trine between Saturn and the Sun on that day, meaning it was a day (Sun) of full-on (trine) tragedy (Saturn) – and the addition of the Moon here makes the tragedy hit harder emotionally.

 

The Flight One space vehicle hope comes crashing down

Against Elon Musk’s planets, there was also a telling alignment in the heliocentric, where the transiting Saturn-Jupiter square combined with Uranus. This can be interpreted as “destroyed hope” (Saturn square Jupiter) in space technology (Uranus).

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Hope (Jupiter) came crashing down (Saturn) on the day that the rocket was first launched.

This sank Musk’s dreams (Juno) of an extraordinary (Chiron) space (Uranus) vehicle (Mercury) – at least for this time.

 

Flight Two Tragedy

On 21 March 2007, the stars were lining up for another failure – but Musk, of course, didn’t know it. This signal was found in a hidden layer of reality.

The rocket made it to space but began spinning violently and failed to reach a stable orbit.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Even in a trine, the Saturn-Jupiter combo is a bad affair. Here Saturn also opposes Neptune and Mars - both of which rule "vitality" while Neputune also rules "longevity". We get frustrating lack of vitality and longevity.

Saturn was trine Jupiter, limited success, while Saturn also opposed Mars and Neptune. The vitality and energy of the rocket was reduced and the hope (Jupiter) was again destroyed (Saturn). Saturn was also contra-parallel Mars in the declinations, making everything worse.

 

Flight Three Tragedy


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
This was a day (Earth) of tragic (Saturn) accidents (Mars)

This time the tragedy signature was in the heliocentric astrology, with Saturn being trine the Earth-Moon complex and Mars also being part of the alignment. Mars shows up in rocket launches as lots of fiery energy is required. There was a small timing error during stage separation that caused the first stage to slam back into the second stage right after uncoupling.


The Space X Company

When we look at the Space X company we find a highly interesting alignment.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Space X can be a leading (Oden and Jupiter) and noteworthy provider (Chiron) of transportation (Mercury)

We have a Grand Trine between Oden, Jupiter and Mercury. This can be interpreted as an undisputed leader (Oden) and success (Jupiter) in communication, mathematics, vehicles of transportation and exploration (Mercury). Chiron adds “noteworthy” to the equation and that it’s possible to make a living from these qualities.


Space X and Elon

Interestingly enough, the above kite is parked exactly so that Jupiter of the kite creates a planetary eclipse with Elon’s Sun. That means Jupiter is both conjunct and parallel his Sun. A Jupiter-Sun conjunction brings luck to the person, but this is three times as strong.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
The super powerful CAC between Elon and Space X includes a Jupiter-Sun planetary eclipse and Mercury (transportation) Uranus (engineering, space travel and engineering) as well as Pallas (technology, systematic processes, intelligence and scientific principles). Chiron adds charisma and being noteworthy.

Elon’s Pallas, representing logic, sequencing, technology and intellect also enters the equation, as does his Uranus – technology, aviation, space and fame – and we now see that Elon and Space X together can become leaders in successful noteworthy space exploration technology.

 

Main Event – Flight Four

Now we are getting to the main event of this story, the launch on 28 September 2008.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Things have now changed: the planetary eclipse between the Sun and Oden speaks of significant wisdom and leadership. The Jupiter/Pluto midpoint - itself a harbringer of success - is trine Venus, which has "victory" as one of its valid meanings. While Sappho is a problematic entity, representing anxiety, it can also mean "focus".

In the geocentric launch chart we see a planetary eclipse (three times as strong) between the Sun and Oden, the undisputed leader. This combines with an exact trine between Venus (victory) and the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint, representing “super success.”

We have a problem, however, in that Sappho is part of this alignment, potentially bringing anxiety, bad logic, fear and panic into the equation. It is understandable that Musk and his colleagues would feel such feelings, given the situation.

Thankfully, the onslaught of positive energy in this alignment means that while there’s a fly in the ointment, this fly is tiny when we look at the overall volume. Besides, this fly can be coaxed to “play ball” for short durations of time, it can turn into “focus”.

 

Space X and Flight Four

In order to try to figure out if this Sappho “fly in the ointment” will behave, we’ll look at how this alignment relates to Space X, which will be bankrupt if this launch fails.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
We have a Mystical Triangle that represents Super Success (Jupiter exactly conjunct the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint), undisputed leadership (Oden) and victory (Venus) in commercial (Ceres) transportation (Mercury).

Remarkably, we see the transiting Jupiter/Pluto midpoint (super success) is exactly conjunct the Space X Jupiter.  Venus of the day is conjunct Space X Oden and trine its Jupiter.

There’s a super powerful Mystic Triangle created by the Jupiter and Jupiter/Pluto conjunction, the Sun-Oden conjunction and the Ceres-Mercury conjunction, which means commercial (Ceres) transportation (Mercury). Vesta adds both popularity and a humble attitude to this situation, which would come in handy in case the rocket crashes.

 

Space X and Flight Four – the Declinations

When we look at the declinations we find more promising data.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
The day (Sun) of undisputed leadership (Oden) conspires with victory (Venus)

The transiting Oden and Sun are contra-parallel Venus, suggesting this is a day of undisputed leadership energy and victory for Space X, but wait… there’s more…

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Transiting Venus is parallel Space X Uranus and Pluto in the declinations

Transiting Venus is parallel the competitive (Pluto) space technology (Uranus) of Space X. We get victory, as well as money and power from space industry.


Gwynne Shotwell and Flight Four

The transiting Sun of the fourth launch was contraparallel her Jupiter and Ixion on the day and parallel her Chiron.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Gwynne was being highlighted (Sun) for her noteworthy (Chiron) genius (Jupiter) talents and abilities (Ixion)

We again see how the declinations can hold important clues to our decoding - here the transiting Sun shines onto Gwynne's outstanding alignment between the charismatic and noteworthy Chiron, the genius of Jupiter and the talent-and-abilites of Ixion. Remember, this was the first private liquid-propellant vehicle to successfully achieve orbital velocity - a significant space-exploration milestone. And, included among Chiron's meanings are "free trade" and "free enterprise" - as in, non-governmental. It's not unusual that faster-moving bodies, such as the Sun and even Jupiter provide extra power to natal alignments during occasions of high achievement - this was also the case when Edmund Hillary first climbed Mount Everest. It's like a personal afterburner situation.


Victory, success and smarts show in Gwynne's helio transits

More of Gwynne's special talents are being recognized in the heliocentric realm.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Venus, Jupiter and Pallas perform a reciprocal dance of engineering success

Here we have an interaction by the transiting Venus, Pallas and Jupiter - with the natal Venus, Pallas and Jupiter. Even though not all aspects are connecting, due to the 3-4 degree orb limitation, this is still remarkable. When there are reciprical aspects between two planets, the energy is dramatically increased. In this case, we have three planets playing along together in a similar fashion. There's an abundance of success (Jupiter) as a result of the art of combining (Venus) matters of engineering and logic (Pallas) on this day.


Elon Musk and Flight Four

Finally, let’s look at how the transiting planets of Flight Four interact with Elon Musk. Here we find more positive clues.

 

Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
We're already in positive territory from what we have seen - and an exact trine from Venus to Elon's Sun and transiting Jupiter being contraparallel his Sun and Venus speak of success.

 

Transiting Venus is trine Elon’s Sun exactly and the transiting Jupiter is contraparallel his Sun and Venus – it could well be that the difficult run has ended.

  

The Christmas Miracle

Even with a successful rocket, Elon's SpaceX was struggling to meet its payroll demands by December 2008 while simultaneously trying to keep Tesla afloat. Two days before Christmas 2008, NASA called Elon to say that SpaceX had won a $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services  contract to fly cargo to the International Space Station.


Astrology chart relating to Space X and Elon Musk's eventual success
Magi Astrology: the Jupiter-Pluto enhancement is called the Super Success aspect and Elon Musk experienced it first-hand when NASA called him on 23 December 08. Transiting Jupiter was exactly trine his Pluto on that day.

Transiting Jupiter was exactly trine Elon’s Pluto on that day – driving home the power of the Magi Astrology Super Success aspect. In addition, transiting Venus was closely trine his natal Venus and applying just in time for Christmas.

The timing of this windfall could thus be decoded.

 
 
 

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