“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.
In his mothers book that came out in 2009, she says he was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. And that he was born in the evening.