My Friend Dahmer, starring Anne Heche, tracks the teenage years of the Milwaukee Monster, Jeffrey Dahmer, whose subsequent career involved the murder and dismemberment of 17 young men from 1978 to 1991. Adapted from a graphic-novel memoir by John Backderf, one of his former classmates, it portrays a damaged mind in free-fall. Heche plays his mother Joyce, who was depressive, neglectful, addicted to prescription drugs and suffered a nervous breakdown during his childhood.
Dahmer, who was killed in prison in 1994 by another inmate, was born 21 May 1960 4.34 pm Milwaukee, WI and had an 8th house Sun, Mercury in Gemini square Pluto; with an Aries Moon square Saturn and trine a 10th house Uranus; and an afflicted Mars in Aries square Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn and on the focal point of a wide-ish Yod to Pluto sextile Neptune. Neither parent did him any favours and he certainly wasn’t in control of his aggression. His ‘serial killer’ 18th Harmonic has Mars Saturn conjunct the MC.
Ann Heche, herself is no stranger to a dysfunctional family. Born 25 May 1969 4.51pm Cleveland, Ohio, she describes her mother as having created “a well of disaster in her life”. She was the youngest of five, with her ‘religious’ family constantly on the move, dodging demands for unpaid rent. Her father, a part-time church pianist had a series of secret homosexual relationships and sexually abused Heche for the first 12 years of her life. He died of Aids when she was 13: three months later, her elder brother died in a car accident, believed to be suicide; an elder sister died of brain cancer; a second sister died in infancy; a third, Abigail, she has reconciled with after years of estrangement. Her mother she no longer talks to.
She has an 8th house Sun Gemini like Dahmer, so there must have been a resonance. Her Sun Mercury are in a go-ahead opposition to Mars in Sagittarius with her Sun also opposition a filmic Neptune, and trine Uranus Jupiter in late Virgo. Her Virgo Moon in the 12th is conjunct Pluto, Jupiter Uranus, sextile Neptune and inconjunct Venus. That’s a whole load of complication – and another bucketload of nervy Mutable planets. The strongly populated and erratic 12th house suggests a troubled mother during pregnancy with her. And she would have a good many demons to lay to rest.
Her adult life has not surprisingly been a roller coaster with a high, when she appeared to have Hollywood at her feet in the early 2000s with four blockbusters – Donnie Brasco, Volcano, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wag the Dog. Then she fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres and the roles dried up. She split from DeGeneres after a few years, had a psychotic breakdown; and has worked her way slowly back up; having married actor James Tupper, now dissolved.
She does have Saturn in her 7th along with Venus, so will find falling in love easy but what follows will be exceptionally hard work. Plus her complicated Moon aspects won’t help her to settle.
She will continue to rise in coming years.
Two charts with similarities though her Mars is much less prominent, but both with disastrous childhoods – yet one turned good and one very bad indeed.