Amy Poehler is an American actress, comedian, producer and podcaster, born in Newton, Massachusetts. She studied at Boston College and began in improvisational theater in Chicago, at Second City and ImprovOlympic, then joined the Upright Citizens Brigade in 1995. The troupe moved to New York in 1996, and its sketch show ran on Comedy Central from 1998. She joined Saturday Night Live in 2001 and co-anchored Weekend Update from 2004 to 2008. Mean Girls (2004) began a run of films with Tina Fey, and the two hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2021. Poehler produced and starred as Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation (2009 to 2015), winning a Golden Globe. She wrote the book Yes Please (2014), voiced Joy in the Inside Out films, and was an executive producer of Russian Doll. Her 2025 podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler won the first Golden Globe for best podcast.
A birth certificate, quoted by PT
Astro-Databank keeps a short note on the hour: "PT quotes birth certificate." The entry is rated AA and gives 4:33 p.m.
The entry lists no other hour, so that one time carries the chart.
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♒︎ Aquarius | 4:32 p.m. to 5:55 p.m. | Capricorn before, Pisces after |
| Midheaven | ♏︎ Scorpio | 2:57 p.m. to 4:55 p.m. | Libra before, Sagittarius after |
| Moon | ♌︎ Leo | all day | n/a |
Rising sign, midheaven and Moon calculated by us, Newton, Massachusetts, Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4).
Capricorn hands the horizon to Aquarius at 4:32 p.m.
Aquarius held the Newton horizon from 4:32 p.m. to 5:55 p.m., and the birth falls in its first minute. Aquarius rising is tied in the tradition to a detached, original first impression.
Mars at 12°15′ of Aquarius occupies the 1st house in both systems, so the rising sign holds a planet. It trines Uranus, 0°24′ from exact. Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius, is at 12°39′ of Libra, a Placidus 8th-house planet that Whole Sign moves to the 9th.
Our pages: Aquarius rising · Mars in Aquarius · Uranus in Libra · 1st house · rising sign calculator.
Mercury squares Saturn across two signs it rules
Mercury at 6°34′ of Virgo and Saturn at 6°31′ of Gemini are 0°03′ from an exact square, the tightest aspect in the chart. Mercury rules both signs, so astrologers read the planet of speech as pressed by a heavy body in its other home, a pairing linked with exacting, well-timed delivery.
Placidus sets Mercury in the 7th house and Saturn in the 4th, and Whole Sign puts them in the 8th and the 5th.
Our pages: Mercury in Virgo · Saturn in Gemini · 7th house · 5th house.
Two slow planets on the first degrees of Sagittarius
Jupiter at 0°43′ and Neptune at 0°38′ of Sagittarius are joined within 0°05′, and both have only just crossed into the sign. Such a conjunction suggests expansion fused with imagination, in a sign of travel, belief and wide horizons.
With the midheaven at 24°32′ Scorpio, Placidus puts both in the 10th house of public standing, and Whole Sign in the 11th. Each also sextiles Pluto, Neptune within 1°19′ and Jupiter within 1°24′.
Our pages: Jupiter in Sagittarius · Neptune in Sagittarius · Midheaven in Scorpio · 10th house · 11th house.
Pluto at the end of Virgo, Venus beside it
Pluto at 29°19′ of Virgo stands 0°33′ from Venus at 28°46′, with the Sun at 23°19′ a little behind in the same sign. A final degree carries a theme at completion, so Venus meeting Pluto there suggests taste and attachment drawn toward thoroughness.
Sun, Venus and Pluto share the 8th house in both systems, the tradition's house of shared resources and deep change. Pluto belongs to a whole generation, so the conjunction to Venus says more than its sign.
Our pages: Virgo · Venus in Virgo · Pluto in Virgo · 8th house.
The Moon in Leo, facing the rising sign
The Moon entered Leo at 7:38 p.m. on September 14 and leaves at 6:29 a.m. on September 17, so it spends the whole day there. At 22°59′ it occupies the 7th house in both systems, and Leo lies opposite Aquarius.
A Leo Moon suggests warm feeling that wants an audience. Its nearest aspects are wide squares to Neptune and Jupiter, 7°39′ and 7°44′ off, so sign and house carry it.
Our pages: Moon in Leo · 7th house · moon sign calculator · Sun, Moon and rising together.
All major aspects between the planets in Amy Poehler's chart
- Mercury square Saturn orb 0°03′
- Jupiter conjunction Neptune orb 0°05′
- Mars trine Uranus orb 0°24′
- Venus conjunction Pluto orb 0°33′
- Neptune sextile Pluto orb 1°19′
- Jupiter sextile Pluto orb 1°24′
- Venus sextile Neptune orb 1°52′
- Venus sextile Jupiter orb 1°57′
- Sun conjunction Venus orb 5°27′
- Mars trine Saturn orb 5°43′
- Jupiter opposition Saturn orb 5°49′
- Mercury square Jupiter orb 5°52′
- Saturn opposition Neptune orb 5°54′
- Mercury square Neptune orb 5°57′
- Sun conjunction Pluto orb 6°00′
- Saturn trine Uranus orb 6°07′
- Saturn trine Pluto orb 7°13′
- Sun sextile Neptune orb 7°19′
- Sun sextile Jupiter orb 7°24′
- Moon square Neptune orb 7°39′
- Moon square Jupiter orb 7°44′
- Venus trine Saturn orb 7°46′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Amy Poehler's chart
Which sign rises for Amy Poehler?
Aquarius, at 0°34′ Aquarius. It took the horizon at 4:32 p.m. and keeps it until 5:55 p.m.
Is her Sun in Virgo?
At 23°19′, with Mercury, Venus and Pluto in the same sign.
Where is her Moon?
In Leo, at 22°59′, 7th house. It was in Leo all day.
When was she born?
September 16, 1971, at 4:33 p.m., Newton, Massachusetts.
Could her rising sign have been Capricorn?
Capricorn held the horizon until 4:32 p.m., one minute before the recorded time.
Which aspect is nearest to exact?
Mercury square Saturn, 0°03′ off.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Amy Poehler's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.