Dahmer's natal data:
21st May 1960, 4.43pm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (87-W-54 / 47-N-02).
Asc. Libra 21.11
I can't give you the sources but I have revised the internet time and again for this data, and this birth time consistently appears and I believe it must be correct. It obviously isn't a rounded off time, so I suspect it must be an accurate record from a birth certificate. In fact, Dahmer's birth certificate can be viewed online, but not close enough to see any recording of time.
Noel Tyl gives the time of 3.35pm for Dahmer, but I find this odd in light of several sources contradicting this and all stating the same time. I feel that this is a rectification in order to put Mars right upon the descendant, probably because the rectifier desires this to reflect violence toward others, but astrology can and does, speak with a much subtler tongue than this.
The 4.43pm time puts the Moon on the descendant, where I think it belongs.
This post took my interest as I have actually dragged this chart out to attempt interpreting it again. I will post forth with my findings, but in a separate thread, as I think this individual is so interesting that the nativity deserves a topic of it's own. There have been many occasions in the past I have looked at this chart, and then put it away again without writing anything down, but my interest has piqued lately (my Sun is conjoined exactly with Dahmers NN, and this is stimulated by the transitting SN). I see a lot of interesting things in this chart reflecting upon who he was and what he did.
About cannabilism in nativities: I'm not actually sure this is a good, clear thing to look for in a natal chart. For example, Dahmer was a cannibal as a by-product of his necrophilia which in turn came about as a result of his killing. His primary motivation was not to go out and seek a victim to eat, but to seek a cadaver to play with, so it is this tendancy that should be looked for first. His motivation was not cannibalism, but, as with nearly every serial killer, his primary stimulus was sexual excitement. He ate parts of his victims bodies because he might as well have done, and you begin to run out storage space for corpses in a very small apartment, and if you're demented enough to kill people for sexual kicks, then you might as well save on the shopping bill.
Dahmer's image as a cannibal has also been sensationalised by the media over the fact that he was a necrophile and his motivation was sexual and not gastronomical.
Another important point to make is that the tendancy to anthropophagy resides in all of us. If you put us all in a room and starved us, it wouldn't be long before some would begin to feed upon other's in desperation. The vast majority of reported cases of cannibalism occur in circumstances of extreme hunger, and usually, when the victim is already deceased. In a case such as this, we aren't looking for what makes the ravenous native a cannibal, but rather, what is reflected in the nativity that would outline the probability of circumstances arising in which cannabilism might prove to be necessary. The same can be said with Dahmer's chart, cannibalism is the wrong thing to look for, what needs to be explored is the potential for the circumstances to arise in which cannibalism is likely to occur and why this might be.
In short, the question is not, what made Dahmer eat the people he killed, but what influences outlined the potential motivation to kill in the first place, because had he not been a killer, it is very doubtful he would ever have been a cannibal.
I'll take this to a new thread.
