“King of Hip Hop” Eminem has had a stratospherically successful musical career, being the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the US, selling 220 million records globally. But his emotional life has been difficult, starting with his mother, who had him at 17, a drug addict suffering from bi-polar disorder and Munchausen by proxy, so she feigned her children’s illnesses to garner attention for herself. His father left when he was a toddler and his mother married multiple times. He spoke openly about his childhood traumas and in turn his mother sued him for $10 million for slander, though he says they have now made up.
Born 17 October 1972 11.04 am (unverified) Kansas City, MO, he has a maverick Sun Uranus in Libra trine Saturn in Gemini in his 7th; with Mars Pluto in his 10th, which would fairly describe a damaging mother. That squares onto Jupiter in Capricorn which is where he’ll get his confidence and determination from. His Aquarius Moon is in a cool trine to Saturn, square Mercury in Scorpio, trine Sun, Uranus and widely trine Mars – so complicated emotional responses. Not only is his Saturn in the 7th it also opposes his Sun/Moon midpoint so one-to-one commitment won’t be easy for him. He has been married twice to a childhood sweetheart and divorced twice.
His mother Deborah Nelson Mathers, born 6 January 1955, herself came from a troubled background with one sibling committing suicide, one a stroke patient and another brother, in prison for killing his brother-in-law.
She’s a Sun Capricorn with a heavy and highly-strung chart, She has a Water Grand Trine of Mars in Pisces trine Saturn in Scorpio trine Uranus Jupiter in Cancer – so she would retreat from a cruel and unpleasant father/childhood into her fantasies. Water Grand Trines can be detached from reality since they are highly self-protective and hers is formed into a Kite by Uranus Jupiter opposition a mentally strung-out Mercury which in turn squares onto a focal point Neptune, exacerbating her escapist tendencies. Her bleak Pluto square Saturn is in hard aspect to Eminem’s Moon, so not much nurturing there; and her evasive Neptune is conjunct his Sun.
Though oddly enough he’ll get some of his driving determination and confidence from her; and his independence and original talent from his absent father.
Their relationship chart has a cold and erratic composite Sun square Saturn Uranus which in turn are in an angry, explosive trine to Mars; with an intense Mercury square Pluto. And some superficial affection from a composite Moon opposition Venus and maybe opposition Jupiter.
If his birth time is right, he’ll be back away from too punishing a work schedule for several years ahead if he has any sense. Tr Pluto is squaring his Uranus this year, then squaring his Sun in 2020/2021 which will be tough going and highly pressured for him.