Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar (born December 13, 1984, Ottawa, Canada), aged 41, is a Canadian poet and speculative fiction writer. El-Mohtar is best known for This Is How You Lose the Time War. El-Mohtar's honours include Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Short Story and Rhysling Award.
Amal El-Mohtar’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Rat, with 
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Amal El-Mohtar’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Seeker
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
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US rank in 2025
~4,513
Americans share it since 1880
2021
its peak year
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Amal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
11 · 2 · 3
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🌿 Fern
Frost white · Rose-gold · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Amal, according to the stars
Core essence
Amal is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Amal is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
How Amal wants to be loved
Amal wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Amal be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.
How Amal creates
How Amal makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Amal creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.
Instinct
Instinct: Amal is quick, clever and alert, a Rat year, and their gut reaction to a problem is to find the angle nobody has tried. Charming, resourceful, a little bit of a hoarder of good things and good people. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Amal is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Amal goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Amal's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Amal sits
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You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunTruth first, tact later.
Amal El-Mohtar's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 13, 1984, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Sagittarius readings associate the sign with distance, belief and candour: travel, big questions and an answer given before it was asked for. Astrologers describe it as the mutable fire sign, ruled by Jupiter, and read it for optimism and appetite. The corresponding tension is overreach, with the classical caution that the horizon is more attractive than the ground underfoot.
Wood Rat
Wood RatResourceful is an understatement.
Amal El-Mohtar was born on December 13, 1984, which falls in a Wood Rat year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Rat readings emphasise quickness, resourcefulness and an eye for the opening nobody else has noticed. The Chinese almanacs describe the Rat as the strategist of the cycle, first in the order because it saw the shortcut. The corresponding caution in the tradition is scatter: too many angles worked at once, and charm spent where patience was needed.
Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Amal El-Mohtar's birth date, December 13, 1984, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 11 readings treat the number as a master path, associated with intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious. Numerologists read it as an intensified 2: the partner's gifts under pressure. The corresponding tension is nervous strain, with the caution that perceiving more than most people can be exhausting to carry.
What stands out in Amal’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Amal El-Mohtar's date-only chart is Sun sextile Mars, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Sun, Mercury and Uranus, sit together in Sagittarius, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Amal El-Mohtar combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Seeker.
Amal’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Amal El-Mohtar, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunsextileMars0.6° to 0.8° orb
Amal’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.9° to 3.3° orb
Amal’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableVenussquarePluto0.9° to 2.0° orb
Amal’s affections grind against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableMarssquareSaturn1.4° to 2.0° orb
Amal’s drive grinds against their discipline.
stableMercurysextileMars1.8° to 3.9° orb
Amal’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
Amal’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 7.5° orb
Amal’s mind and imagination act as one.
possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time
possibleSuntrineMoonorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.4° depending on birth time
possibleMoonoppositionMarsorb from 0.1° to 12.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 10.8° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed5 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Amal’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 5°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Amal turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 12°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Amal is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosAquarius 6°18′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Amal is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ HygieaAquarius 19°45′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aquarius is read as health through the unconventional: odd hours, own methods. Amal is read as someone who ignores the standard advice and sometimes proves it wrong.
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Aries is read as the refusal to be second. The modern reading has Amal carrying an anger that is cleaner than it looks and a need to act on it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron trine Venus 0.3°
- Eros conjunction Venus 1.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Sun 2.1°
- Eros square Pluto 2.4°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Amal’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus
2. ♇ Pluto5 pts
in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Saturn; 2 major aspects
3. ☿ Mercury3 pts
3 major aspects
A Jupiter-led chart is read as scale and optimism leading: Amal is read as reaching for the bigger version of any plan.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Amal’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Stellium in Sagittarius · Sun, Mercury, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Venus quintile Saturn 0.5°
- Sun semi-sextile Saturn 1.0°
- Mercury semi-sextile Saturn 1.2°
- Jupiter quintile Pluto 1.4°
- Sun semi-square Venus 1.5°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Amal El-Mohtar, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Amal’s cards
Every card is computed from December 13, 1984, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Metal.
Year
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
辛
yin Metal
巳
Snake
Fire
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Amal El-Mohtar, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Amal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20631001, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by SouthernNights, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Amal El-Mohtar at Wikipedia, amalelmohtar.com, IMDb, Instagram and X.
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Quick answers about Amal El-Mohtar’s chart
- How old is Amal El-Mohtar?
- Amal El-Mohtar is 41 years old, born December 13, 1984 in Ottawa, Canada.
- What zodiac sign is Amal El-Mohtar?
- Amal El-Mohtar is a Sagittarius: born December 13, 1984, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Rat.
- What is Amal El-Mohtar's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rat, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 13, 1984 birth.
- What time was Amal El-Mohtar born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Amal El-Mohtar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology from the December 13, 1984 birth date.
- What is Amal El-Mohtar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons for the December 13, 1984 birth date.
- Where is Amal El-Mohtar's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Amal El-Mohtar's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus). Pluto is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
