David Walliams, one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors, with 40 books to his credit that have sold 60 million copies and £100m in sales, widely used in schools and translated into 55 languages has been dropped by his publisher, HarperCollins, for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women. He has been a successful TV personality and comedian as well, though in 2022 reports emerged that he had made derogatory remarks about contestants on Britain’s Got Talent, leading to his departure from the programme and a subsequent legal dispute that was settled in 2023.
He was born 20 August 1971 1.45 am Wimbledon, England, and according to a mother writing in the Telegraph the attitude to women in his books “has always been suspect, even unpleasant.” He has seemed “viciously dismissive of many of his female characters, simply because they’re overweight, unattractive or have some degree of power.”
He has a Leo Sun close to Venus and conjunct Alphard (like Bill Clinton) = successful but tripping up through self-defeating actions. His Sun (Venus)is also on the focal point of an out-of-element T square to Neptune Jupiter in his 5th house which rules entertainment and children opposition Saturn. That is quite a statement – ego centric from a focal point Sun, scandal-prone from Jupiter Neptune and creative but neurotic from Neptune opposition Saturn.
He also has an up-in-his-head Air Grand Trine of a deeply-buried and angry 8th house Mars in Aquarius conjunct North Node trine Saturn trine Uranus, formed into a Kite by Mars North Node opposition his Leo Moon. Which is also quite a statement with a fractious and uncompromising collection of Saturn, Mars, Uranus. What stands out is his 8th house Mars in obstinate Aquarius opposition Moon which would give him deep-rooted issues with women, part of a generational pattern in his family.
Plus he has Pluto in his 4th tending to make him emotionally controlling.
At the moment his Progressed Moon is exactly conjunct his Moon and just off the opposition to his 8th house Mars, so highlighting that central not-women-friendly strand of his chart, More to the point tr Pluto is just on the cusp of his 8th staying there for many years to come which is usually financially and emotionally stuck. Plus tr Saturn is in a stuck opposition to his Pluto in late January 2026 with tr Uranus returning to oppose his Neptune in April 2026 and continuing on to rattle up his Saturn in Gemini from July 2026 into 2027. So that driving opposition in his chart tied into a Grand Trine and a T square will be shaken every which way. A life changing phase.
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