Eminem

Air takes six of his ten planets, earth two, with one apiece in fire and water, and five of the ten sit in cardinal signs. Air arranges everything; the elements that would act on instinct or register the cost are down to a planet each. The record says Eminem is an American rapper whose Detroit upbringing became the film 8 Mile.

The Sun sits at twenty four degrees of Libra with Mars at eleven, Uranus at nineteen and Pluto on the third degree, four planets in the sign that works itself out in relation to other people. The Moon answers from Aquarius at twenty, handling a feeling by stepping back from it and examining it. For a writer whose record is an upbringing turned into a film, a Libra group under a detached Moon is the structure to start from: the material is personal and the handling of it is not.

Two grand trines run through this chart and both hold the Moon and Saturn, one closing with Uranus and the other with the Sun. Both figures sit entirely in air. The Moon sits in easy contact with Saturn at just over half a degree, which reads as emotional steadiness: reliable in a crisis, and not requiring much reassurance. In the record of an upbringing made public, two self contained figures resting on exactly that contact is the most interesting thing the chart has to say. Jupiter sits square Pluto at a tenth of a degree, ambition and force colliding.

Jupiter stood again on its Capricorn birth degree on 14 December 2019, at forty seven, and three laps precede it. Capricorn asks what a thing cost to keep, which for a record built on where somebody came from is the question it keeps answering. Six planets in air with two grand trines in it, in a rapper, is the thing to carry out of this chart: the arranging is effortless and almost nothing here is held by feeling.