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Malik Monk

Malik Monk (born February 4, 1998, Jonesboro, United States), aged 28, is an American basketball player (born 1998). Monk has played for Charlotte Hornets and Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball. Monk's honours include Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year.

Malik Monk’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 6 in numerology.

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Malik Monk’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Guardian

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 6 represents care: home, responsibility, beauty and the instinct to support the people nearby.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 6, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Malik in the U.S.?

#437

US rank in 2025

~49,866

Americans share it since 1949

1996

its peak year

The SSA recorded 2,694 American boys and 16 girls named Malik in 1998: 138th among boys and 6,255th among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Malik’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

9

Expression · the bigger picture

7

Soul Urge · understanding

2

Personality · warm, careful

The name opens on M (4) and closes on K (2). Two values tie for most repeated, 2 and 4: tact against craft.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Malik’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

6 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Amethyst, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

💜 Violet · 🤍 Camellia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

Violet · Ivory · Gold

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 1, trigram Kan 坎, East group. Best direction Southeast, worst West.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1998, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Born on the Li Chun day itself with no birth time on record, so the year is not settled and this is the later reading. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Malik apart

The Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year came in 2017, when Malik Monk was 19.

Study took Malik Monk to East Poinsett County High School and Bentonville High School.

Malik Monk was 19 when the work began in 2017.

Wikipedia files Malik Monk under Sportspeople from Jonesboro, Arkansas, Bentonville High School alumni and People from Bentonville, Arkansas.

Eray Cömert shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
East Poinsett County High School, Bentonville High School and University of Kentucky
Awards
Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year (2017)
Working from
2017
Sport
basketball
Citizenship
United States
Wikipedia editions
21

What the chart says

Malik, according to the stars

Core essence

Malik is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Malik is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Malik wants to be loved

Malik wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show Malik you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How Malik creates

How Malik makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Malik creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: Malik is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 6 is the nurturer. Malik is here to care, to make a home wherever they are, to be the person others come to. Responsible, warm, a little too willing to carry everyone, and learning to let themselves be looked after.

Triggers

Triggers: cruelty, and being cornered. Mars in Pisces does not fight straight; Malik slips away, absorbs it, or turns it into something creative instead. Anger becomes art or empathy. The lesson is learning that they are allowed to take up space and say the hard thing.

Computed from Malik's birth date. Working below.

Where Malik sits

Six lines

Malik’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Malik

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Malik

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Malik

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Malik

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Malik

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Malik

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Malik Monk

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Jonesboro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Malik’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 80.9° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 77.3° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Jonesboro that night

Computed for 35.83°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Jonesboro at 9 p.m. that evening: Menkalinan of Auriga, within 9.1° of the exact zenith.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 102 catalog stars above the horizon.

Jonesboro sits at 35.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −54.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jonesboro on any night.

The Moon, 63% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 42° below the horizon.

How unusual Malik's chart is

Chart pattern score

64 / 100 · Unusual

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · A bowl chart · Venus retrograde

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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If you only read one paragraph

Aquarius Sun

Original, and fine with it.

Malik Monk's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of February 4, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Malik Monk was born on February 4, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 6

Responsible before asked.

Malik Monk's birth date, February 4, 1998, reduces to Life Path 6 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 6 means →

What stands out in Malik’s chart

Malik’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 19° to 2° Taurus or Gemini depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0° orbMars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.4° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.4° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 2.8° orbMercury fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.1° orbMoon grinds against Jupiter · Square, 4.2° orbMoon flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.3° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 15°43′☉15°Moon in Taurus · 25°55′☽25°Mercury in Aquarius · 3°21′☿3°Venus in Capricorn · 18°30′ · retrograde♀℞18°Mars in Pisces · 8°10′♂8°Jupiter in Pisces · 0°04′♃0°Saturn in Aries · 15°45′♄15°Uranus in Aquarius · 9°06′♅9°Neptune in Aquarius · 0°15′♆0°Pluto in Sagittarius · 7°43′♇7°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableSunsextileSaturn0.0° to 0.5° orb

    Malik’s core identity opens doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMarssquarePluto0.1° to 0.8° orb

    Malik’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.4° orb

    Malik’s need for freedom opens doors for their depths. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune2.3° to 3.9° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn2.7° to 2.8° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.0° to 6.5° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus6.1° to 7.1° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.1° to 10.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 11.2° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineVenusorb from 0.5° to 14.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.4° to 13.5° depending on birth time

  • possibleMercurysextilePlutoorb from 3.6° to 5.2° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal2 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Malik’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironScorpio 18°10′ (moves 0.05° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 24°26′ (moves 0.36° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosScorpio 12°48′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaGemini 11°59′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 5°51′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron sextile Venus 0.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Pluto 1.9°
  • Chiron square Sun 2.4°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mercury 2.5°
  • Eros square Sun 2.9°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 2.9°

Malik’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus11 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Venus; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune3 pts

    disposes Mars, Jupiter; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Malik’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, Uranus, NeptuneThree 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.

  • Jupiter semi-sextile Neptune 0.2°
  • Mercury quintile Saturn 0.4°
  • Jupiter semi-square Saturn 0.7°
  • Mars semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°

Born the same day as Malik

Eray Cömert was born on February 4, 1998 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. One thing a birthday twin cannot share is the latitude. At 35.8°N, the sky above Jonesboro stops at −54.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: The Lo Shu square: the oldest magic square there is · What if you don't know your birth time?

Malik’s cards

Computed from February 4, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Lovers

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

6 · Guardian

♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Malik’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q21622110 (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 Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Malik Monk 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 Malik Monk.

Quick answers about Malik Monk’s chart

How old is Malik Monk?
Malik Monk is 28 years old, born February 4, 1998 in Jonesboro, United States.
What zodiac sign is Malik Monk?
Malik Monk is an Aquarius: born February 4, 1998, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Malik Monk's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the February 4, 1998 birth.
How tall is Malik Monk?
Malik Monk is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Malik Monk's Life Path number?
Life Path 6, calculated in numerology.
What is Malik Monk's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 18°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Malik Monk's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 5°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Malik Monk's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Neptune; 3 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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