Tesla Is a Cancer. The Home Battery Makes Sense Now.
Tesla first traded on the Nasdaq on June 29, 2010, at $17 a share, the first American carmaker to go public since Ford in 1956. Financial astrology treats that first trade as a birth, which makes the company that sells a battery for your garage a Cancer, the sign that would honestly rather stay home.
The birth certificate
The Associated Press covered the day in full: 13.3 million shares at $17 each, trading under the symbol TSLA, closing at $23.89. It also noted that the company had not had a single profitable quarter since it was founded in 2003. So the chart belongs to a newborn that arrived with a great deal of feeling and no receipts yet, which is the most Cancer sentence we have ever written.
The chart, cast three ways
The Sun. June 29 is early Cancer, the crab, ruled by the Moon. Cancer is the sign of home, shelter and memory, the one that carries its house on its back and remembers exactly what you said in 2014.
The Life Path. Add the date digit by digit, 0 + 6 + 2 + 9 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 20, then 2 + 0 = 2. Numerologists call 2 the partner: diplomatic, sensitive, allergic to conflict, happiest as the quiet half of a pair.
The Chinese zodiac. 2010 is a Tiger year, and years ending in zero take the Metal stem, so Tesla is a Metal Tiger: bold, restless and rather keen on being the first one through the door.
Where it rhymes
A Moon-ruled sign obsessed with the home went on to sell a wall battery for the home and solar tiles for the roof. Cancer did not so much choose a product line as decorate.
Then there is the shell. The crab is the zodiac's one creature that wears its armour on the outside, and Tesla went on to build a pickup truck with a stainless steel exoskeleton. The astrologers did not design it. They would like partial credit anyway.
The Metal Tiger lands too. Being the first carmaker to list since Ford in 1956 is a very Tiger way to arrive: loudly, first, and without waiting for company.
Where it faceplants
Life Path 2 is the quiet partner who hates a fight and would rather smooth things over at dinner. Tesla's public life has been many things. Quiet, conflict-averse and happy in the background are not on the list. The number got the sensitivity right and the volume spectacularly wrong.
What the chart actually is
A mirror, not a forecast. The first-trade chart hands Tesla a personality that rhymes with its story in places and faceplants in others, and that gap is the whole show. Nothing here says what the stock will do, and nobody serious pretends a chart can. If you would like the same treatment, get your own chart read. It takes about a minute, and nobody will call you a crab.
Questions people ask
What is Tesla's zodiac sign?
By its first trade on June 29, 2010, Tesla is a Cancer, with a Life Path of 2 and a Metal Tiger year.
When did Tesla go public?
Tesla first traded on the Nasdaq on June 29, 2010, at $17 a share, under the symbol TSLA.
Can astrology predict Tesla's stock?
No. A chart is a personality read. We tested whether charts carry a return signal and published the result: they do not.