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, Chinese zodiac is Wood Rat, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac is 
Wood Rat, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Amal
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.
How common is the name Amal in the U.S.?
#1241
US rank in 2025
~4,513
Americans share it since 1962
2021
its peak year
The SSA recorded 29 American girls named Amal in 1984: 2,992nd for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Amal’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
2
Expression · connecting people
5
Soul Urge · freedom
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Amal’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
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 record
What sets Amal apart
Taylor Swift (1989) and Jamie Foxx (1967) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
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. Working below.
Where Amal sits
Six lines
Amal’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
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.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Amal El-Mohtar
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Ottawa on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Ottawa that night
Computed for 45.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Ottawa was Almach, in Andromeda, 84.3° up.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 106 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 45.4°N, Capella and Deneb never go below the horizon: they are circumpolar at this latitude.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Ottawa at all: they sit past the −44.6° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at last quarter, 67% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 48° down.
How unusual Amal's chart is
Chart pattern score
73 / 100 · Rare
A bundled chart · 3-planet stellium in Sagittarius · T-square onto Saturn
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →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.
What Sagittarius means →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.
What the Rat means →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.
What Life Path 11 means →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
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 3° Leo or Virgo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
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
stableMercurysextileMars1.8° to 3.9° orb
stableNeptunesextilePluto3.1° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune6.1° to 7.5° orb
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
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 5°02′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Taurus 12°00′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°18′ (moves 0.56° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaAquarius 19°45′ (moves 0.31° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 10°59′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- 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°
Amal’s dominant planets
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
Configurations in Amal’s chart
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, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- 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°
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Born in Rat years
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Also born on December 13
- Taylor Swift1989
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- Amy Lee1981
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Fellow Yin Metal day masters
- Edsger W. DijkstraDutch computer scientist
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- Vinícius JúniorBrazilian association football player
Other Sagittarius Rat charts
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Other Gilded Seekers
- Ben JohnsonAmerican film actor
- EjaeSouth Korean-American singer and songwriter (born 1991)
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From the journal: How accurate is Western astrology? · Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Amal’s cards
Computed from December 13, 1984. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Gilded SeekerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Rat 子Life Path
11 · Visionary♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
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
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Amal’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q20631001 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by SouthernNights, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Amal El-Mohtar.
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.
- 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 is Amal El-Mohtar's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What is Amal El-Mohtar's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 5°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- 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.
