Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971, Newton, United States, 16:33), aged 55, is an American actress. Poehler is best known for Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Inside Out and Parks and Recreation. Poehler's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Award for Best Podcast and MTV Movie Award for Best Jaw Dropping Moment.
Amy Poehler’s zodiac sign is Virgo, Chinese zodiac is Metal Pig, with Life Path 7 in numerology.
Virgo, Chinese zodiac is 
Metal Pig, with 
Life Path 7 in numerology.Your match with Amy
Amy Poehler’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Seeker
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 7 represents inquiry: study, solitude and the need to understand what others may simply accept.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 7, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Amy in the U.S.?
#257
US rank in 2025
~703,484
Americans share it since 1880
1975
its peak year
In 1971, 26,237 American girls and 75 boys were registered Amy — 5th among girls and 941st among boys on the SSA's list that year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Amy’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
8
Soul Urge · achievement
2
Personality · warm, careful
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). Two values tie for most repeated, 5 and 7: movement against analysis.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Amy’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
7 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Sapphire, Emerald, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
⭐ Aster · 💜 Lavender · 🤍 White Camellia
Lavender · Lilac · Silver
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 1971, 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 Amy apart
Lee Kuan Yew (1923) and Fan Bingbing (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
What the chart says
Amy, according to the stars
Core essence
Amy notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Amy is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Amy needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Amy needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Amy wants to be loved
Amy wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Amy and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Amy creates
How Amy makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Amy builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Amy is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 7 is the seeker. Amy is here to understand, to go deep rather than wide, to keep a private inner world that most people never see. Thoughtful, intuitive, happiest with time alone, and learning to let the right people in.
Triggers
Triggers: being told "because that's how it's done." Mars in Aquarius fights for the idea, the group, the principle, rarely for themselves. Amy goes cool and distant rather than hot, and then does the surprising thing. Point them at a cause and they will rewrite the rules around it.
Computed from Amy's birth date. Working below.
Where Amy sits
Six lines
Amy’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth sky
Dedicate a star to Amy Poehler
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Newton on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
Read from the sky above Newton at 16:33, Amy Poehler’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Newton that night
Computed for 42.34°N, at the documented birth time.
Overhead at Newton at the birth hour: Alphecca of Corona Borealis, within 15.6° of the exact zenith.
Of the 85 catalog stars above the horizon, Arcturus was the brightest.
Newton sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Nothing below −47.7° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Newton on any night.
The Moon, 7% lit at waning crescent, was still up; the Sun sat -25° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Newton, United States
- Lives in
- Chicago · Newton
Wikidata records Chicago and Newton as Amy Poehler's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
Against Newton, Shared Places reads Chicago as weak for this chart: 44 of 100, 91st of 168 cities scored. The chart's own strongest is Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at 100.
Scored by Shared Places, which overlays astrocartography maps for a whole household. The tradition has no verified predictive validity, and a real move turns on work, visas and family rather than a chart line.
What Amy's birth time unlocks
Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace
The Warrior 武曲, The Treasurer 天府 in 子
Bureau 土五局 · Body Palace in Career
Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →Chart pattern score
84 / 100 · Rare
4-planet stellium in Virgo · Grand trine · 1 unaspected planet
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.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunHelps by correcting.
Amy Poehler's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time.
What Virgo means →Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Amy Poehler was born on September 16, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Pig means →Life Path 7
Life Path 7Digs under every answer.
Amy Poehler's birth date, September 16, 1971, reduces to Life Path 7 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 7 means →What stands out in Amy’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Amy Poehler's timed chart: Moon in the 7th house and Mars in the 1st house.
- The tightest major aspect in Amy Poehler's timed chart is Mercury square Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto, sit together in Virgo, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Amy Poehler combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Seeker.
Amy’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
MercurysquareSaturnseparating · 0.0° orb
Amy’s mind grinds against their discipline.
JupiterconjunctionNeptuneseparating · 0.1° orb
Amy’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
MarstrineUranusapplying · 0.4° orb
Amy’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
VenusconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.5° orb
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 1.3° orb
JupitersextilePlutoseparating · 1.4° orb
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 1.9° orb
VenussextileJupiterapplying · 2.0° orb
SunconjunctionVenusseparating · 5.4° orb
MarstrineSaturnseparating · 5.7° orb
JupiteroppositionSaturnapplying · 5.8° orb
MercurysquareJupiterseparating · 5.9° orb
MercurysquareNeptuneseparating · 5.9° orb
SaturnoppositionNeptuneapplying · 5.9° orb
SunconjunctionPlutoapplying · 6.0° orb
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 6.1° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire3 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water0 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal1 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable7 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Water signs.
Amy’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five.
⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 12°24′ · House 3
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCancer 29°32′ · House 6
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosVirgo 23°38′ · House 8
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaVirgo 22°11′ · House 8
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithLibra 12°09′ · House 9
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 0.1°
- Chiron sextile Mars 0.2°
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.2°
- Ceres sextile Pluto 0.2°
- Eros conjunction Sun 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Uranus 0.5°
- Ceres sextile Venus 0.8°
- Ceres opposition Ascendant 1.0°
- Ceres trine Neptune 1.1°
- Hygiea conjunction Sun 1.1°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 1.2°
Amy’s dominant planets
1. ☿ Mercury12 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ♃ Jupiter8 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 5 major aspects
3. ♄ Saturn6.5 pts
traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Amy’s chart
Stellium in Virgo · Sun, Mercury, Venus, PlutoThree 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.
Grand trine · Mars, Saturn, UranusThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.
T-square onto Mercury · Jupiter, Saturn, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mercury · Saturn, Neptune, MercuryAn 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-sextile Moon 0.3°
- Mars quintile Neptune 0.4°
- Mars quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 1.5°
Amy’s houses
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 9 | Mars | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 11 | empty | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Aries | Mars in Aquarius, house 1 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Taurus | Venus in Virgo, house 8 | empty | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Gemini | Mercury in Virgo, house 8 | Saturn | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Cancer | Moon in Leo, house 7 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 8 | Moon | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Virgo | Mercury in Virgo, house 8 | Sun, Mercury, Venus, Pluto | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Libra | Venus in Virgo, house 8 | Uranus | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Scorpio | Pluto in Virgo, house 8 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Sagittarius, house 11 | Jupiter, Neptune | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Capricorn | Saturn in Gemini, house 5 | empty | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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From the journal: Why there are 12 signs and not 13 · Compatibility triangles: the four trines explained
Amy’s cards
Computed from September 16, 1971. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The ChariotAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen SeekerWestern zodiac
VirgoChinese zodiac
Pig 亥Life Path
7 · Seeker☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丁
yin Fire
酉
Rooster
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
辰
Dragon
Earth
you & partnership
Hour
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
later life & legacy
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Amy’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q230203 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Amy Poehler at Wikipedia, web.archive.org, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Amy Poehler.
Quick answers about Amy Poehler’s chart
- How old is Amy Poehler?
- Amy Poehler is 55 years old, born September 16, 1971 in Newton, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Amy Poehler?
- Amy Poehler is a Virgo: born September 16, 1971, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time.
- What is Amy Poehler's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the September 16, 1971 birth.
- What time was Amy Poehler born?
- 16:33 local time in Newton, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What is Amy Poehler's rising sign?
- Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 16:33 birth time in Newton, United States (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What is Amy Poehler's Life Path number?
- Life Path 7, calculated in numerology.
- What is Amy Poehler's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 12°, in the third house. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Amy Poehler's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Libra at 12°, in the ninth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Amy Poehler's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (12 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; in its own sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Venus, Saturn, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Jupiter is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
