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Sofyan Amrabat

Sofyan Amrabat (born August 21, 1996, Huizen, Netherlands), aged 30, is a Moroccan-Dutch footballer (born 1996). Amrabat has played for AFC Ajax. Amrabat's honours include Officer of the Order of the Throne.

Sofyan Amrabat’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Fire Rat, with Life Path 9 in numerology.

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Sofyan Amrabat’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 9 represents compassion: generosity, completion and the ability to consider more than one person’s experience.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 9, on the intuitive plane.

What Sofyan’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

1

Expression · starting things

1

Soul Urge · independence

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on S (1) and closes on N (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.

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

Sofyan’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

9 · 2 · 3

Lucky colours

Red & Orange

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↓ South

Season

summer

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Carnelian

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 🌺 Poppy

Coral · Gold · Flame orange

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1996, 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 Sofyan apart

The Officer of the Order of the Throne came in 2022, when Sofyan Amrabat was 26.

Sofyan Amrabat was 19 when the work began in 2015.

On Wikipedia the categories read Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Turkey, ACF Fiorentina players and Club Brugge KV players.

Justin Strnad 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.

Awards
Officer of the Order of the Throne (2022)
Working from
2015
Sport
association football
Citizenship
Morocco and Kingdom of the Netherlands
Languages
Italian, English and Berber
Wikipedia editions
50

What the chart says

Sofyan, according to the stars

Core essence

Sofyan is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Sofyan is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Sofyan feels more than they will ever show, and shows it to about three people. The Moon in Scorpio is deep water: loyal, private, slow to trust and impossible to fool. What Sofyan needs to feel safe is total honesty and the sense that a secret told stays told. Betray that once and it is a long way back.

How Sofyan wants to be loved

Sofyan wants to be loved like home. Venus in Cancer needs to feel safe before it feels anything else, and then it feels everything. Remember the small things, meet the family, make the tea. Sofyan gives care in a hundred quiet ways and needs to know it is noticed. Consistency is the romance.

How Sofyan creates

How Sofyan makes things happen: they cut to it. A Yang Metal day master is the sword, decisive, principled, allergic to nonsense. Sofyan 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: Sofyan 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 Fire year turns the volume up: warmer, bolder, more expressive, harder to overlook.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 9 is the humanitarian. Sofyan is here for the bigger picture, to give, to finish what others started and hand it on. Wise beyond their years, compassionate, a little world-weary, and learning to receive as freely as they give.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Sofyan does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Sofyan's birth date. Working below.

Where Sofyan sits

Six lines

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

Intimate circleWide network
Sofyan

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

DeliberateSpontaneous
Sofyan

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

PrivateExpressive
Sofyan

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

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Sofyan

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Sofyan

You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Sofyan

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Sofyan Amrabat

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Huizen 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 Huizen that night

Computed for 52.30°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Huizen at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 1.2° of the exact zenith.

Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.

Huizen sits at 52.3°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −37.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Huizen on any night.

The Moon, 46% lit at first quarter, was still up; the Sun sat 2° below the horizon.

How unusual Sofyan's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Saturn · 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

Leo Sun

Pride is the engine.

Sofyan Amrabat's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 21, 1996, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Fire Rat

Charming, and counting the exits.

Sofyan Amrabat was born on August 21, 1996, which falls in a Fire Rat year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rat means →

Life Path 9

Compassion at scale.

Sofyan Amrabat's birth date, August 21, 1996, reduces to Life Path 9 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 9 means →

What stands out in Sofyan’s chart

Sofyan’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 12° to 26° Scorpio depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Neptune · Trine, 0.4° orbUranus opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 1.2° orbJupiter grinds against Saturn · Square, 1.6° orbSun grinds against Pluto · Square, 1.7° orbMoon flows with Mars · Trine, 1.9° orbMercury opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 4.4° orbVenus fuses with Mars · Conjunction, 4.7° orbVenus faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4.8° orbSun in Leo · 28°37′☉28°Moon in Scorpio · 19°32′☽19°Mercury in Virgo · 25°57′☿25°Venus in Cancer · 12°52′♀12°Mars in Cancer · 17°37′♂17°Jupiter in Capricorn · 8°06′ · retrograde♃℞8°Saturn in Aries · 6°29′ · retrograde♄℞6°Uranus in Aquarius · 1°34′ · retrograde♅℞1°Neptune in Capricorn · 25°31′ · retrograde♆℞25°Pluto in Sagittarius · 0°22′♇0°

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

  • stableMercurytrineNeptune0.0° to 0.9° orb

    Sofyan’s mind flows straight into their imagination.

  • stableUranussextilePluto1.2° orb

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

  • stableSunsquarePluto1.3° to 2.2° orb

    Sofyan’s core identity grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitersquareSaturn1.6° orb

  • stableMercurysextilePluto3.9° to 4.9° orb

  • stableVenusoppositionJupiter4.3° to 5.3° orb

  • stableVenusconjunctionMars4.6° to 4.9° orb

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto4.8° to 4.9° orb

  • stableSaturnsextileUranus4.9° orb

  • stableMercurytrineUranus5.1° to 6.1° orb

  • stableVenussquareSaturn5.9° to 6.9° orb

  • stableUranusconjunctionNeptune6.0° to 6.1° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air1 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed3 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign.

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

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironLibra 13°04′ (moves 0.12° over the day)

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

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 5°09′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

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

  • ♡ ErosLibra 24°41′ (moves 0.70° over the day)

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

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aries 24°44′ (moves 0.02° over the day)

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

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 6°32′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 0.1°
  • Chiron square Venus 0.2°
  • Eros square Neptune 0.8°
  • Hygiea square Neptune 0.8°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 1.3°

Sofyan’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun6 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Neptune; 4 major aspects

  3. 3. ♅ Uranus6 pts

    in its own sign, Aquarius; 4 major aspects

Configurations in Sofyan’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Saturn · Venus, Jupiter, SaturnAn 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.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.7°
  • Saturn quintile Neptune 1.0°
  • Mercury quintile Venus 1.1°

Born the same day as Sofyan

Justin Strnad was born on August 21, 1996 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. What the chart cannot reach is the birthplace. At 52.3°N, Huizen keeps Vega, Capella and Deneb above the horizon every night of the year. Same sky, different lives.

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Sofyan’s cards

Computed from August 21, 1996. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Hermit

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Lightkeeper

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Rat 子

Life Path

9 · Healer

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Metal.

Year

丙

yang Fire

子

Rat

Water

roots & early life

Month

丙

yang Fire

申

Monkey

Metal

work & drive

Day

day master

庚

yang Metal

寅

Tiger

Wood

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Sofyan’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q18428483 (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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Sofyan Amrabat at Wikipedia and Instagram.

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

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Sofyan Amrabat.

Quick answers about Sofyan Amrabat’s chart

How old is Sofyan Amrabat?
Sofyan Amrabat is 30 years old, born August 21, 1996 in Huizen, Netherlands.
What zodiac sign is Sofyan Amrabat?
Sofyan Amrabat is a Leo: born August 21, 1996, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Sofyan Amrabat's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rat, with the Fire element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 21, 1996 birth.
How tall is Sofyan Amrabat?
Sofyan Amrabat is 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Sofyan Amrabat's Life Path number?
Life Path 9, calculated in numerology.
What is Sofyan Amrabat's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Libra at 13°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Sofyan Amrabat's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 6°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Sofyan Amrabat's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (6 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 1 major aspect). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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