Amy Harmon
Amy Harmon (born September 17, 1968, New York City, United States), aged 58, is an American science and technology writer. Harmon's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and Guggenheim Fellowship.
Amy Harmon’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Earth Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Earth Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Amy
Amy Harmon’s AsterNym identity
The Gilded Explorer
Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Metal Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Amy in the U.S.?
#257
US rank in 2025
~703,484
Americans share it since 1880
1975
its peak year
The SSA recorded 17,090 American girls and 45 boys named Amy in 1968: 13th among girls and 1,119th among boys for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Amy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
8
Soul Urge · achievement
1
Personality · self-directed
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 4: drive against craft.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Amy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🌻 Zinnia
Lavender · Lilac · Terracotta
The record
What sets Amy apart
Narendra Modi (1950) and Slayyyter (1996) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
What the chart says
Amy, according to the stars
Core essence
Amy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Amy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
How Amy wants to be loved
Amy wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Amy gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Amy creates
How Amy makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Amy creates by clarifying, by deciding, by being the one who says what the thing actually is. Sharp with themselves first. The work is remembering that not every problem needs a blade.
Instinct
Instinct: Amy is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Amy is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Amy fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Amy's birth date. Working below.
Where Amy sits
Six lines
Amy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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 Amy Harmon
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City 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 New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Fawaris stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.4° above the horizon in Cygnus.
The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 89 catalog stars were up in all.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −49.3° declination ever rises from here, which puts Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.
Sun 22° below the horizon, Moon down and 21% lit at waning crescent.
How unusual Amy's chart is
Chart pattern score
75 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Yod onto Saturn · Yod 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.
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Virgo Sun
Virgo SunSees the typo from across the room.
Amy Harmon's Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 17, 1968, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Virgo means →Earth Monkey
Earth MonkeyClever, playful, never bored.
Amy Harmon was born on September 17, 1968, which falls in a Earth Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Change finds them anyway.
Amy Harmon's birth date, September 17, 1968, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Amy’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Amy Harmon's date-only chart is Sun sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Amy Harmon combines a Metal Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Gilded Explorer.
Amy’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableSunsextileNeptune0.1° to 1.0° orb
Amy’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableNeptunesextilePluto1.5° orb
Amy’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionPluto1.6° to 2.5° orb
Amy’s core identity and depths act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMercuryconjunctionVenus2.0° to 2.1° orb
stableMercuryoppositionSaturn2.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn2.9° to 3.6° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune2.9° to 3.5° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus4.0° to 5.0° orb
stableJupiterconjunctionPluto4.4° to 4.6° orb
stableVenusoppositionSaturn4.6° to 5.9° orb
stableSunconjunctionJupiter6.2° to 6.9° orb
stableUranusconjunctionPluto6.5° to 6.6° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart.
Amy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 1°22′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 16°33′ (moves 0.37° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 4°08′ (moves 0.53° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 5°06′ (moves 0.19° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithGemini 10°15′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 1.7°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 2.1°
Amy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects
2. ☉ Sun5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Libra; disposes Mercury; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Amy’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, PlutoThree 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.
Yod onto Saturn · Sun, Neptune, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.- Yod onto Saturn · Neptune, Pluto, SaturnTwo planets in sextile, both quincunx a third. Astrologers call it the finger of fate and read the apex as an adjustment the chart keeps returning to.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.1°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.1°
- Sun quincunx Saturn 0.7°
- Venus semi-sextile Jupiter 0.7°
- Saturn quincunx Pluto 1.4°
- Mercury semi-sextile Pluto 1.8°
- Mars semi-sextile Uranus 1.9°
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Born in Monkey years
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Also born on September 17
- Narendra Modi1950
- Slayyyter1996
- Chuck Grassley1933
- Danielle Brooks1989
- Nate Berkus1971
- Andrew East1991
Fellow Yang Metal day masters
- Garrett HedlundAmerican actor
- JoJo FletcherAmerican television personality
- Scott HoyingAmerican singer
Other Virgo Monkey charts
- Brandon ClevelandAmerican football player (born 2004)
- Darren WallerAmerican football player
- Jake BrendelAmerican football player
- Ja'Kobe WalterAmerican basketball player (born 2004)
Other Gilded Explorers
- Michelle KwanAmerican figure skater and diplomat
- Monica LewinskyAmerican activist and writer (born 1973)
- Martin LawrenceAmerican actor and comedian (born 1965)
- Pat McAfeeAmerican football player and businessman (born 1987)
Famous people with Life Path 5
- Lucas HernandezFrench footballer (born 1996)
- Dean HendersonEnglish association football player (born 1997)
- Thomas MeunierBelgian association football player
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Amy’s cards
Computed from September 17, 1968. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The HierophantAsterNym identity card
The Gilded ExplorerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Metal.
Year
戊
yang Earth
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
辛
yin Metal
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
庚
yang Metal
寅
Tiger
Wood
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Amy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q4749228 (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.
The same Amy Harmon at Wikipedia and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Amy Harmon.
Quick answers about Amy Harmon’s chart
- How old is Amy Harmon?
- Amy Harmon is 58 years old, born September 17, 1968 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Amy Harmon?
- Amy Harmon is a Virgo: born September 17, 1968, which puts the Sun in Virgo for the whole of that day.
- What is Amy Harmon's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 17, 1968 birth.
- What is Amy Harmon's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What is Amy Harmon's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 1°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Amy Harmon's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Gemini at 10°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Amy Harmon's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto; 2 major aspects). Sun is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
