There is a lot that I don’t really get about what is going on with the Twitter acquisition—I’m not that into business or coding. But I’ve made friends on Twitter and found a lot of laughs on the platform. I wanted to write about this not because I know a ton about the tech world but simply as a social media user who enjoys the sport of talking shit, making laughs, and sometimes getting worked up over things that people say on the internet.
Let’s look a bit at the astrology of what’s going on with Twitter.
For starters, here is Twitter’s chart. The first post on Twitter was published on March 21st 2006 at 8:50 PM. We can be pretty confident about the time since we have a screenshot.
Right off the bat, we're noticing that Twitter has Sun in Aries ruled by Mars in Gemini. It’s a place of discord. Mars is in Gemini which likes to fight with words and ruled by Mercury in Pisces which tends to create a lot of confusion and misinfo. This is a website that is full of sharp rebuttals and not really the place where you’d go for accuracy information. There’s also the angular Jupiter which rules the Moon. Things get big and exaggerated on Twitter.
To look at things with a bit more detail, here is Jack Dorsey’s chart.
The first thing that you’re going to notice, most likely, is that Jack Dorsey started Twitter right at the beginning of his Saturn return. On the first Saturn return, you also get a Jupiter opposition and you see this as well with Twitter’s Jupiter in Scorpio opposing Dorsey’s Jupiter in Taurus.
Saturn’s ingress into Aquarius, then, was significant for both Dorsey and Twitter. The opposition tends to bring what you started during the return into fruition. I don’t have enough information to really know what this is about. I know that Dorsey was fired as CEO initially because he took too much time for his hobbies and that during the opposition he had to fight to retain leadership. I also know that Trump was banned from the platform and that there was a subpoena from Congress.
But enough about that. Let’s focus on just the acquisition. Let’s take a look at Elon Musk’s chart. We don’t have a birth time for Musk so I just pulled up the sunrise chart.
What do you notice? Why Jupiter in Scorpio of course! It turns out that Twitter is Dorsey’s Saturn baby but shares Jupiter with Musk.
Why is this significant, that Dorsey, Musk, and Twitter itself all have Jupiter in either Taurus or Scorpio? April and May of 2022, when Musk first initiated the acquisition, was the first time we had eclipses with the nodes of the Moon fully in Taurus and Scorpio.
It almost didn’t seem to happen. Musk pulled out and Twitter sued him over the summer. We weren’t sure if it was going to happen. Musk spread a lot of information about there being a lot of bots. Then, in October Musk suddenly decided that he was going to purchase the platform after all. Late October and early November comes and we suddenly get all this stuff happening—employees laid off, a complete change to its profit model, the website is somehow running on developer mode, and somehow changes are frozen to several employees.
What happened in October and November that also happened in April and May? That’s right. The eclipses in Taurus and Scorpio.
These eclipses are happening with the north node transiting Taurus and the south node transiting Scorpio. To put it bluntly, the north node adds and the south node subtracts. You’ll notice that Dorsey’s Sun is in Scorpio. You’ll notice that a lot of Scorpio Suns have been cutting themselves free from things in 2022 (Brene Brown who is also a Scorpio Sun also took a pause and rethought her work).
But is Dorsey missing out? I don’t think so. The north node gives and the south node takes away. Dorsey received almost a billion dollars for the Twitter sale. That north node transiting his Jupiter really did give to him with open arms and hands. And for Musk and Twitter itself? These entities have Jupiter in Scorpio. Musk has been losing money not just on the Twitter sale but also on his cryptocurrency investment. Twitter has obviously lost a lot—half of the people who make up the company. It’s lost a ton of value.
There is something else happening with Twitter right now that is very interesting. It also happens to be going through a Mars return. Now, Mars was in Aquarius in back in April when Musk made his first bid for Twitter so I don’t think this has to do with his acquisition so much. It's not about the eclipses. It's about Mars in Gemini.
Because Musk has been selling verification on Twitter for $8, a lot of people are using their hard earned money to cause a lot of chaos which Mars in Gemini loves to do. Someone impersonated Eli Lilly and told us that insulin would be free now, causing the insulin hoarder’s stock to plummet. Someone impersonated Lockheed Martin and said that they would no longer sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, Israel, or the United States for the human rights abuses in these countries and the stock also plummeted.
Now, Mars is staying in Gemini this year. It’ll be in Gemini until March 25th of 2023. Twitter users are not going to let up on the provocation. We never have.
The thing that I really do not understand about this whole situation is this—what the hell makes a website or app with a bunch of random threads and conversations worth literally billions of dollars?
Because Musk shares Jupiter with Twitter and not Saturn, I think that he is after something that Dorsey wasn’t after with Twitter. Looking it up, it appears that Dorsey made billions not with Twitter but with Square which is a payment processing platform. Okay, that makes more sense since there are transaction fees and all that. Dorsey kept Twitter pretty much how it has been since it started, which is a SMS format information network where you can’t edit your posts and are limited in character length. That’s Saturn. It’s not even that large of a social media site. It’s about the size of Reddit and smaller than Pinterest.
But Musk sees Twitter’s Jupiter. Jupiter is about growth and wealth. Musk wants to make Twitter big. He wants it to be profitable.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens in May 2023 with this whole situation. It’ll be the last eclipse season with the nodes in Taurus and Scorpio and, by mid month, Jupiter will also make its way into Taurus. It’ll be Dorsey’s fourth Jupiter return and a Jupiter opposition for both Musk and Twitter. Interestingly enough, Jupiter in Taurus will also be Facebook’s first Jupiter return since Facebook was created in 2012.
So, if you’re like me and grew up in the early 2000s, you’ll have some familiarity with social media platforms suddenly disintegrating and vanishing. It happened with Myspace and with Livejournal. It hasn’t happened for a while now. Let’s see what happens this May. Eclipses can be a bit of a make it or break it type of energy.
