Tesla:  Out of Gas?

By Alex Miller

OK, Tesla makes electric vehicles, which don’t run on gasoline, but you get the idea.  Once valued in excess of a trillion dollars, Tesla Motors stock has plunged in 2025, shedding some $380 billion in value since January, which, not coincidentally, is when founder Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, began his stint with the second Trump administration, as head of the now notorious DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency.  The extra-governmental task force, with no statutory authority beyond the President’s fiat, attempted to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget, but came up a bit short. 

The most generous estimate of its effectiveness comes in at $180 billion, not quite 10% of its goal, but its efficiency in creating human misery has been impressive indeed.  With almost 300,000 government workers fired, and international aid for things such as food for starving children and meds for AIDS patients cut globally, DOGE has managed to squeeze out the maximum suffering from the minimal “savings.”

It was Musk’s identification with DOGE and Trump which precipitated his flagship company’s fall, with a grassroots protest movement termed “Tesla Takedown” emerging early in 2025, calling for a boycott on Tesla and other Musk-owned enterprises, which has proved far more effective than DOGE could ever hope to be.  On June 5^th, Tesla Motors stock experienced its biggest one-day loss yet, plunging some 14% in value, down $153 billion that day alone.  Ironically, this came in the wake of a major split between Musk and Trump, who was given a golden key to the White House on his departure the week before.  Musk accepted his trinket with a black eye, which just goes to show that the universe does indeed have a sense of humor, because a metaphoric black eye is about all Musk gleaned from his government service.

On that date, the Sun (15 Gemini) conjoined Mercury (22 Gemini), placing a focus (Sun) on news about cars (Mercury-ruled), while a square (90 degrees) from these to asteroid Tesla (at 21 Virgo, named for the inventor Nikola Tesla, also eponym of Musk’s company) highlighted Tesla Motors products specifically in the day’s news (also Mercury).

Not to be outdone, asteroid Carr 3837 (at 12 Cancer, alternate spelling of “car”) squared asteroid Nemesis (15 Libra), noted as the bringer of ruin and destruction.  Adding emphasis, Nemesis is also at station, indicating a pivotal turning point has been reached, turning direct that very day.

A remarkable opposition (180 degrees) from Pluto (3 Aquarius), ruling the billions, conjoined asteroid NOT (2 Aquarius), a general disqualifier or symbol of negation, to asteroid Losse (2 Leo), phonetic match for “loss,” suggests the huge drop in value, with $153 billion vanished in a single day.  This polarity interfaces with the pattern described above, by sesquiquadrate (135 degrees) to Sun/Venus and Tesla, and Losse on their midpoint, semisquare (45 degrees) to each. 

Tesla Motors was also fated to be pivotal in Elon Musk’s career (born 28 June 1971), with natal asteroid Tesla (29 Aries), hugging the MC (28 Aries), ruling career, status, reputation and place in the world.  Just out of orb of conjunction is natal asteroid Carr (10 Taurus), closely inconjunct natal Uranus (9 Libra), linking the themes of “electric” (Uranus) and “vehicles” (Carr) in Musk’s mind.

That connection is even more overt in the chart for the founding of Tesla Motors, on 1 July 2003, which sports asteroid Carr (6 Virgo) opposed Uranus (2 Pisces).  Typical for self-referential asteroids, the Sun (9 Cancer) opposes asteroid Tesla (15 Capricorn).  The Sun as also part of a Grand Trine with Uranus, paired with Mars (5 Pisces), and asteroid Achilles (0 Scorpio), embedded at station, denoting pivotal importance (turning direct June 29^th).  Mars/Uranus shows electric (Uranus) energy (Mars) as the company’s raison d’etre (Sun), and Achilles suggests Tesla will become a leader in its field (as the mythic Achilles was the military leader of the Greeks in their war on Troy).  But Achilles also hints at some inherent weakness or vulnerability, something which threatens to destroy it (as in “Achilles heel”). 

The precise nature of this threat can be intuited from further asteroid placements:  namely, Whitehouse and NOT (at 4 and 5 Pisces, respectively).  This identifies the US presidency, or an occupant thereof (Whitehouse), playing a critical role in undermining (NOT) Tesla, moreover suggesting that the comeuppance is sudden and unexpected (Uranus), based in animosity or antipathy (Mars).  Both these asteroids are also at station, signifying outsized importance in Tesla Motors’ history (Whitehouse turned retrograde June 27^th; NOT followed suit on July 3^rd).

Gilding the cosmic lily, Achilles is also on the fulcrum of a T-Square with an opposition from asteroids Losse (0 Leo) and Washingtonia (at 5 Leo, for Washington DC) to asteroid Donn (29 Capricorn).  This clearly establishes the vulnerability (Achilles) to loss (Losse) as related to interactions with the federal government generally (Washingtonia) and Elon Musk’s relationship with Donald Trump (Donn) specifically. 

Note that at the time of its greatest loss, transit asteroid Losse (2 Leo) had just made its return to its natal place (0 Leo) in the Tesla Motors chart.  This reactivates the entire pattern, bringing the potential for loss from government interaction into manifestation.  In addition, transit Tesla (21 Virgo) is squared natal Nemesis (23 Sagittarius), that point of undoing, often self-created; as well as natal Pluto (18 Sagittarius), again ruling the billions, also indicating a devastating outcome.

In 2025 so far, Elon Musk’s personal wealth has reportedly been eroded by some $100 billion, a third of that coming in the aftermath of his very public feud with Donald Trump.  That little spat cost Musk $34 billion, the second-largest loss ever in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

And yet, Musk remains the world’s richest man.  Go figure.

Sources:

Chart data from astro.com

Stock data from Wikipedia

Title Image Credit:  Car off cliff image drawn by Craiyon; stock ticker image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay; combined and altered by author