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Motaz Azaiza

Motaz Azaiza (born January 30, 1999, Deir al-Balah, Palestine), aged 27, is a Palestinian photojournalist based in Gaza. Azaiza's honours include Prix Liberté and Lucie Impact Award.

Motaz Azaiza’s zodiac sign is Aquarius, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Motaz Azaiza’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Architect

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

What Motaz’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

4

Expression · building what holds

1

Soul Urge · independence

3

Personality · bright, quick

The name opens on M (4) and closes on Z (8). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Motaz’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

5 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🌻 Zinnia

Crimson · Ivory · Terracotta

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. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Motaz apart

Motaz Azaiza took the Lucie Impact Award in 2023, at 24.

The classrooms behind this chart: Al-Azhar University, Gaza.

The working life starts in 2023, at 24.

Wikipedia's editors put Motaz Azaiza under Palestinian people of the Gaza war, Instagram people and People from Deir al-Balah Camp.

The same date carries Trey Sermon and Elijah Molden. The sky is shared; nothing after it is.

Educated at
Al-Azhar University, Gaza
Awards
Prix Liberté (2024) and Lucie Impact Award (2023)
Working from
2023
Citizenship
Palestine
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
16

What the chart says

Motaz, according to the stars

Core essence

Motaz is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Motaz 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 Motaz wants to be loved

Motaz wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Motaz, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Motaz creates

How Motaz makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Motaz 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: Motaz 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 5 is the free spirit. Motaz 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: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Motaz runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from Motaz's birth date. Working below.

Where Motaz sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Motaz

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Motaz

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Motaz

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Motaz

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

PracticalVisionary
Motaz

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Motaz

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 Motaz Azaiza

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Deir al-Balah on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Motaz’s birth-night reference starElnathblue-white · TaurusElnath, in Taurus. A blue-white star, 83° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Elnath →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 73.6° 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 Deir al-Balah that night

Computed for 31.42°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Deir al-Balah was Elnath, in Taurus, 83.0° up.

Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.

From 31.4°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

The trade is at the other end of the sky: nothing south of −58.6° declination ever rises from here, which puts Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of view.

The Moon, 99% lit at full moon, was still up; the Sun sat 48° below the horizon.

How unusual Motaz's chart is

Chart pattern score

71 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Aquarius · T-square onto Neptune · A bowl chart

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.

Motaz Azaiza's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1999, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aquarius means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Motaz Azaiza was born on January 30, 1999, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 5

Five doors open at once.

Motaz Azaiza's birth date, January 30, 1999, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 5 means →

What stands out in Motaz’s chart

Motaz’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 17° to 0° Cancer or Leo depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 0.1° orbVenus flows with Mars · Trine, 0.6° orbMars grinds against Neptune · Square, 0.6° orbSun fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 2.5° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.6° orbMoon flows with Jupiter · Trine, 3.1° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 3.3° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 3.4° orbSun in Aquarius · 10°03′☉10°Moon in Cancer · 24°05′☽24°Mercury in Aquarius · 6°41′☿6°Venus in Pisces · 2°10′♀2°Mars in Scorpio · 1°34′♂1°Jupiter in Pisces · 27°08′♃27°Saturn in Aries · 27°41′♄27°Uranus in Aquarius · 12°36′♅12°Neptune in Aquarius · 2°10′♆2°Pluto in Sagittarius · 9°59′♇9°

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

  • stableSunsextilePluto0.0° to 0.6° orb

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

  • stableVenustrineMars0.2° to 1.0° orb

    Motaz’s affections flow straight into their drive.

  • stableMarssquareNeptune0.4° to 0.8° orb

    Motaz’s drive grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionUranus2.1° to 3.0° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto2.5° to 4.1° orb

  • stableUranussextilePluto2.6° orb

  • stableSunconjunctionMercury3.0° to 3.7° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionNeptune3.7° to 5.4° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionSaturn3.7° to 4.0° orb

  • stableMercurysquareMars4.5° to 5.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.5° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionUranus5.1° to 6.7° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire2 of 10
  • Earth0 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water4 of 10

Modalities

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

Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Earth signs.

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

What these five are read as, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironSagittarius 2°07′ (moves 0.08° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus or Gemini during this date

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

  • ♡ ErosAquarius 26°29′ (moves 0.61° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Virgo 0°06′ (moves 0.17° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 15°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron square Venus 0.1°
  • Chiron sextile Neptune 0.1°
  • Eros sextile Saturn 1.2°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Hygiea opposition Venus 2.1°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.2°
  • Ceres trine Neptune 2.2°
  • Hygiea trine Saturn 2.4°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.8°

Motaz’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. ☿ Mercury5 pts

    5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♂ Mars5 pts

    disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Motaz’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.
  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Neptune · Mars, Saturn, NeptuneAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Venus semi-sextile Neptune 0.0°
  • Jupiter semi-square Uranus 0.5°
  • Jupiter semi-sextile Saturn 0.6°

Born the same day as Motaz

2 other people here were born on January 30, 1999, 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. Deir al-Balah sits at 31.4°N, far enough north that Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman never clear the horizon. Same sky, different lives.

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From the journal: The twelve Day Officers, and how Chinese date selection works · Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained

Motaz’s cards

Computed from January 30, 1999. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hierophant

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Architect

Western zodiac

Aquarius

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

5 · Explorer

♄ 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

乙

yin Wood

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

午

Horse

Fire

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Motaz’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q123270618 (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 FeaturingDallas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Motaz Azaiza at Wikipedia, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Motaz Azaiza.

Quick answers about Motaz Azaiza’s chart

How old is Motaz Azaiza?
Motaz Azaiza is 27 years old, born January 30, 1999 in Deir al-Balah, Palestine.
What zodiac sign is Motaz Azaiza?
Motaz Azaiza is an Aquarius: born January 30, 1999, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day.
What is Motaz Azaiza's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1999 birth.
What is Motaz Azaiza's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
What is Motaz Azaiza's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Sagittarius at 2°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Motaz Azaiza's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 15°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Motaz Azaiza'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). Mercury is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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