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Muna el-Kurd

Muna el-Kurd (born May 15, 1998, Jerusalem), aged 28, is a Palestinian journalist. el-Kurd's honours include Time 100.

Muna el-Kurd’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Earth Tiger, with Life Path 2 in numerology.

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Muna el-Kurd’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 2 represents partnership: cooperation, diplomacy and the ability to work with different kinds of people.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 2, on the emotional plane.

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

#3436

US rank in 2025

~1,303

Americans share it since 1968

2019

its peak year

In 1998, 26 American girls were registered Muna — 4,334th on the SSA's list that year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Muna’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

3

Soul Urge · being heard

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on M (4) and closes on A (1). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.

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

Muna’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

2 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Emerald, Diamond, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌿 Lily of the Valley · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌻 Zinnia

Ivory · Blush · Terracotta

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

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 female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Muna apart

The Time 100 came in 2021, when Muna el-Kurd was 23.

The schooling ran through Birzeit University.

On Wikipedia the categories read Birzeit University alumni, Activists from Jerusalem and Palestinian Muslims.

Mohammed El-Kurd and Luke Fortner shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for all of them. What follows the chart is where they part.

Educated at
Birzeit University
Awards
Time 100 (2021)
Citizenship
Palestine
Languages
English and Arabic
Wikipedia editions
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What the chart says

Muna, according to the stars

Core essence

Muna is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Muna is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Muna is steadier than they let on and more tender than they let on, both at once. The Moon in Capricorn feels deeply and privately, and would rather fix the problem than talk about the feeling. What Muna needs to feel safe is reliability and respect. They soften completely for the people who earn it.

How Muna wants to be loved

Muna wants to be loved boldly. Venus in Aries falls fast, says so, and wants you to chase back. Grand gestures land, so does a fight followed by a proper make-up. What bores them is hesitation. Be direct, be a little brave about them, and keep the spark lit on purpose.

How Muna creates

How Muna makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. Muna 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: Muna 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 2 is the peacemaker. Muna is here to bring people together, to feel the undercurrents and smooth them, to be the reason a room works. Sensitive, diplomatic, quietly essential, and learning that their own needs count too.

Triggers

Triggers: being rushed, and being pushed. Mars in Taurus means Muna is slow to anger and very hard to move once they are. Patience is the superpower, stubbornness its shadow. Let them set the pace and they are unstoppable in their own time.

Computed from Muna's birth date. Working below.

Where Muna sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Muna

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Muna

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

PrivateExpressive
Muna

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Muna

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

PracticalVisionary
Muna

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Muna

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

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

Muna’s birth-night reference starCor Caroliblue-white · Canes VenaticiCor Caroli, in Canes Venatici. A blue-white star, 75.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Cor Caroli →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 16.5° 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 Jerusalem that night

Computed for 31.78°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Jerusalem was Cor Caroli, in Canes Venatici, 75.8° up.

Of the 92 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Jerusalem sits at 31.8°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Nothing below −58.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Jerusalem on any night.

Sun 17° below the horizon, Moon down and 84% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Muna's chart is

Chart pattern score

51 / 100 · Unusual

3-planet stellium in Taurus · A bowl chart · 1 planet at a critical degree

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

Taurus Sun

Built for the long haul.

Muna el-Kurd's Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 15, 1998, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Taurus means →

Earth Tiger

Courage before caution.

Muna el-Kurd was born on May 15, 1998, which falls in a Earth Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 2

Listens first, then decides.

Muna el-Kurd's birth date, May 15, 1998, reduces to Life Path 2 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 2 means →

What stands out in Muna’s chart

Muna’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 1° to 14° Capricorn depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Venus opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.4° orbSun fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 0.6° orbMars opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 1.6° orbMercury grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 2.2° orbMercury fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.1° orbSaturn grinds against Neptune · Square, 4.8° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.9° orbSun in Taurus · 24°20′☉24°Moon in Capricorn · 7°36′☽7°Mercury in Taurus · 0°24′☿0°Venus in Aries · 13°08′♀13°Mars in Taurus · 23°43′♂23°Jupiter in Pisces · 22°09′♃22°Saturn in Aries · 27°17′♄27°Uranus in Aquarius · 12°44′♅12°Neptune in Aquarius · 2°08′ · retrograde♆℞2°Pluto in Sagittarius · 7°03′ · retrograde♇℞7°

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

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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

  • stableVenussextileUranus0.0° to 1.0° orb

    Muna’s affections open doors for their need for freedom.

  • stableSunconjunctionMars0.5° to 0.7° orb

    Muna’s core identity and drive act as one.

  • stableMercurysquareNeptune1.0° to 2.4° orb

    Muna’s mind grinds against their imagination.

  • stableMarssextileJupiter1.3° to 1.8° orb

  • stableSunsextileJupiter1.8° to 2.6° orb

  • stableMercuryconjunctionSaturn2.5° to 3.8° orb

  • stableSaturnsquareNeptune4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.9° orb

  • stableVenustrinePluto5.5° to 6.7° orb

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 0.1° to 11.3° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 1.5° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineSaturnorb from 4.0° to 16.7° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal3 of 10
  • Fixed5 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

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

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Scorpio 14°56′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresTaurus 3°20′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

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

  • ♡ Eros ℞Scorpio 19°08′ (moves 0.41° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ HygieaCancer 1°12′ (moves 0.31° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 16°57′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea sextile Mercury 0.8°
  • Ceres square Neptune 1.2°
  • Chiron square Uranus 2.2°
  • Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.9°

Muna’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars4 pts

    disposes Venus, Saturn; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus4 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Muna’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Sun, Mercury, MarsThree 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.

  • Mercury biquintile Pluto 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Neptune 1.0°

Muna’s family here

One relative of Muna el-Kurd also has a chart on AsterNym.

Born the same day as Muna

2 other people here were born on May 15, 1998, 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 31.8°N, the sky above Jerusalem stops at −58.2° declination. Same sky, different lives.

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Life Path numbers explained →

From the journal: Why your Chinese sign might be wrong · What is feng shui?

Muna’s cards

Computed from May 15, 1998. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Justice

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Guardian

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

2 · Diplomat

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

戊

yang Earth

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

丁

yin Fire

巳

Snake

Fire

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Muna’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q107102279 (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 Doha News, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Muna el-Kurd at Wikipedia, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Muna el-Kurd.

Quick answers about Muna el-Kurd’s chart

How old is Muna el-Kurd?
Muna el-Kurd is 28 years old, born May 15, 1998 in Jerusalem.
What zodiac sign is Muna el-Kurd?
Muna el-Kurd is a Taurus: born May 15, 1998, which puts the Sun in Taurus for the whole of that day.
What is Muna el-Kurd's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the May 15, 1998 birth.
What is Muna el-Kurd's Life Path number?
Life Path 2, calculated in numerology.
What is Muna el-Kurd's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Scorpio at 14°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Muna el-Kurd's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 16°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Muna el-Kurd's dominant planet?
Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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