Late April 2026, and a 2007 R-rated comedy is sitting at #6 on Netflix worldwide. Knocked Up — Judd Apatow's $30 million breakout that turned Seth Rogen into a leading man — is back in the global top ten almost two decades after it first hit theaters. That's not nostalgia. That's a chart with unusually durable wiring.
Seth Rogen — Natal Chart Reference
Born
April 15, 1982 — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sun opposition Pluto — within a fraction of a degree of perfect alignment
Birth time
Unknown (Rodden X). Rising sign and house placements are not analyzed.
Source
Astro-Seek (Wikipedia-derived birth date); calculated via Swiss Ephemeris
Why a 2007 Comedy Is Trending in 2026
Knocked Up hit Netflix's global top ten in late April 2026, slotting in at #6 worldwide behind a Charlize Theron action film, the Adam Sandler-produced Roommates, and a new 28 Years Later sequel. According to FlixPatrol's tracking, Apatow's 2007 comedy crossed back into the global conversation almost twenty years after it earned roughly $219.9 million on a $30 million budget. Most films that age don't get a second life. They get a Wikipedia page and a streaming-license footnote.
The Rogen phenomenon is that he keeps pulling this off. Pineapple Express. Superbad. The Disaster Artist. Pam & Tommy. The Studio. He has been continuously visible — as actor, screenwriter, and producer through his Point Grey Pictures partnership with Evan Goldberg — for two decades, and the projects rarely look like they belong to the same career. That kind of range is the chart's tell. Compare it to Ryan Reynolds' fellow-Canadian Scorpio stellium and you see two opposite engines doing similar work: Reynolds compresses into a single brand, Rogen diffuses into a portfolio.
The Aries Sun at 25 Degrees: Late-Sign Specifics
Rogen's Sun sits at 25°30' Aries — deep into the third decan of the sign, the ten-degree subdivision astrologers use to fine-tune a sign's character. Each sign breaks into three decans of ten degrees each, and the third decan of Aries is the territory where the cardinal-fire impulse to start something is tempered by an interest in seeing it through. Early-Aries Suns ignite. Late-Aries Suns ignite and then keep moving. It tracks with Rogen's working pattern, where the joke isn't to set up a project and walk; it's to set it up, write it, produce it, star in it, and stay attached for years through marketing and streaming windows.
But Aries-Sun analysis is incomplete without the chart's headline aspect. Rogen's Sun is in opposition to natal Pluto in Libra — an opposition (the 180-degree polarity that forces a choice between two equally weighted positions) so close to perfect that the two planets are within a fraction of a degree of true alignment. That's not a near-miss. That's astrological architecture. Sun-Pluto people tend to feel watched, tested, or singled out, and they often turn that pressure into compulsive output. The cost: nothing is ever neutral. Even a goofy stoner comedy has to mean something underneath, or the chart can't justify the work.
Capricorn Moon: The Serious Operator Under the Stoner
Rogen's Moon — the chart's emotional baseline, which moves about 13 degrees per day, so its sign placement holds across the entire birthday — is at 17°53' Capricorn. This is the placement of the executive producer who hides behind a t-shirt. Capricorn Moons measure their feelings in deliverables. They tend to find emotional safety in being the one running the meeting, owning the project, signing the contract. The on-camera persona of the laid-back Vancouver kid is real, but it isn't the whole story. The chart says the inner life is closer to the founder of a production company who hasn't taken a real vacation in fifteen years.
What complicates the Capricorn Moon is its tight square — the 90-degree friction angle, where two planets pull at right angles to each other and force a workable compromise — to natal Saturn at 18°23' Libra. The two are less than a degree apart from a perfect right angle, which is about as exact as this aspect gets. Moon square Saturn often shows up as a low-grade emotional weight, the sense that affection has to be earned and that taking a day off is a moral failure. Rogen has spoken openly across his career about anxiety and self-doubt, and this is the chart placement that most reliably correlates with both. It's also the placement that builds the disciplined creative habit a Capricorn Moon needs to stay sane: write daily, meet deadlines, ship the script. The trade-off is that the chart can mistake productivity for happiness.
Mars and Saturn in Libra: The Partnership Engine
Both of Rogen's traditional malefics — Mars (action, drive) at 4°43' Libra and Saturn (structure, time) at 18°23' Libra — are in the sign of partnership, and both are retrograde at birth. Retrograde personal planets often correlate with people who do their work indirectly: through collaboration, behind the camera, or in a way that resists the obvious frontal assault. Combine that with both planets sitting in Libra, and you have a chart whose default mode is two-person creative partnership. The reading is almost on-the-nose: Rogen has worked with Evan Goldberg as creative partner since they met in Vancouver as teenagers, co-writing Superbad, co-creating Preacher for AMC and The Boys for Amazon, and co-running Point Grey Pictures.
The Libra-Mars-Rx grain is also why his career rarely looks like aggressive ladder-climbing. His most successful projects tend to spread credit across an ensemble — Apatow's repertory company on the Universal comedies, his Point Grey roster, his cannabis brand Houseplant co-founded with Goldberg. Where a Mars-in-Aries person picks fights to clarify hierarchy, Mars-in-Libra-Rx picks deals. The cost: when partnership breaks down, the chart can stall. Rogen's most public conflict — his long-standing feud with Knocked Up co-star Katherine Heigl after her 2008 Vanity Fair comments about the film's treatment of women — fits the pattern. Mars in Libra retrograde keeps the wound running for years rather than discharging it cleanly.
Jupiter in Scorpio: The Reason He Reinvents
Rogen's Jupiter — the chart's growth principle — sits at 6°44' Scorpio, also retrograde. Jupiter in Scorpio is the placement of the comedian who can't actually stay light. The chart wants to expand by going underneath, into the uncomfortable material: addiction, mortality, sexual humiliation, the apocalypse. Pineapple Express is funny because the violence is real. This Is the End is funny because the religious dread is real. Pam & Tommy wasn't funny at all because Jupiter-Scorpio finally got to drop the joke. The trade-off is that Rogen's lighter projects sometimes feel like they're pulling against the chart's gravity, and the box office of his straightforward comedies can feel softer than the prestige work.
Mercury (the chart's voice) at 0°05' Taurus opposite that Jupiter-Scorpio gives the writing its texture: slow, deliberate, image-loaded, building from concrete observation to bigger ideas. It's why Rogen's monologues read better on second viewing. The earlier Aries-decan Sun supplies the timing; the Taurus Mercury supplies the patience to hold a joke for an extra two beats. Most contemporary comedy chart aspects emphasize speed (Mercury in air signs, Mercury-Uranus aspects). Rogen's chart instead rewards weight.
The Transit Picture in Spring 2026
Two transits sit close to Rogen's natal chart this spring. Transit Mars — currently at 16°58' Aries — is in opposition to his natal Saturn in Libra at 18°23', the two planets less than two degrees from an exact polarity. Mars-to-Saturn oppositions tend to feel like running uphill: every push meets a structural counterweight. For someone whose chart already runs on Capricorn-Moon discipline, the transit usually surfaces as a stretch where the existing workload starts costing more than it returns. Not a derailment. A pressure check. Mars moves quickly and the opposition will close within a few weeks; what it leaves behind is a clearer sense of which commitments deserve the next year's energy and which don't.
The slower story is transit Pluto in Aquarius squaring his natal Jupiter in Scorpio at 6°44'. Pluto only entered Aquarius for good in late 2024 and is now at 5°30' — close enough to an exact square to Rogen's Jupiter that the aspect is fully active. That square is a multi-year transit that returns several times as Pluto stations and wobbles forward and back. It tends to force a renegotiation of the chart's expansion principle: what you've been growing toward gets stripped to its foundation, and what's left is what you actually believed in. For a Jupiter-in-Scorpio creator, that means the prestige-drama instinct is being intensified rather than diluted. Expect more Pam & Tommy-shaped projects from Point Grey through the late 2020s. Less Sausage Party. The broader Pluto-in-Aquarius backdrop is also reorganizing what mass culture rewards — see the Mercury-Pluto square arriving on May 5, 2026 for the near-term version of the same compression.
Where Rogen's Chart Sits Among Other Aries Comics
The Aries-Sun cohort in entertainment is unusually crowded right now. David Harbour's Aries stellium is currently powering his John Rambo casting; William Shatner's Aries stellium is being revisited around Star Trek's 60th anniversary. Rogen is the outlier in that group: no stellium (a tight cluster of three or more planets in one sign), just the late-Aries Sun on its own, paired with that exact Sun-Pluto opposition. The takeaway is that his chart isn't a fire chart. It's a Pluto chart that happens to have a fire Sun. The ambition runs cold and structural under the warm comic delivery, which is why the production-company arc has out-grown the on-camera arc over time.
What is Seth Rogen's zodiac sign?
Seth Rogen is an Aries, born April 15, 1982 in Vancouver. His Sun sits at 25°30' Aries — late in the sign, where the cardinal-fire impulse to start projects is tempered by a willingness to see them through, which fits his pattern of building decade-long creative ventures rather than chasing single roles.
What is Seth Rogen's Moon sign?
His Moon is in Capricorn at 17°53'. Capricorn Moons tend to find emotional safety in work, structure, and ownership — the chart placement of someone who measures wellbeing in deliverables. It's the quiet engine behind Point Grey Pictures, his production partnership, sitting underneath the laid-back stoner persona he brings to interviews.
Why is Knocked Up trending again on Netflix in 2026?
Knocked Up entered Netflix's global top ten in late April 2026 at #6, almost two decades after its 2007 release. The streaming algorithm and a quieter spring release calendar both helped, but the chart angle is that Rogen-led comedies have unusually long tails — a Sun-Pluto signature that keeps regenerating audience attention.
Do we know Seth Rogen's rising sign?
His birth time isn't publicly documented in any verified source. Without a confirmed time of birth, the rising sign and any house placements can't be calculated reliably, so we don't analyze them in this profile. The planetary positions and aspects above don't depend on birth time, which is why they can be discussed with confidence.
What does Seth Rogen's Sun-Pluto opposition mean?
His Sun in Aries opposes Pluto in Libra to within a fraction of a degree of true alignment — extraordinarily tight. Sun-Pluto people often turn the experience of being scrutinized into compulsive creative output. It tends to manifest as a career where every project, even comedies, has to carry weight underneath the surface to feel worth doing.
