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.
Not the best year for certain children’s authors. Didn’t Fergie end up having her latest offering pulped?
Walliams was born the day before a solar eclipse- Saros series 9 New North, a communications eclipse. There was a solar eclipse on 21 Sept this year of the same series, exactly conjunction his natal Pluto. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were issues with home and family too.
That Saturn is a huge challenge- an outsider, riven with fear, works hard to communicate to the network in a lighthearted manner (Gemini), affecting nearly everything in the chart. All that Leo is helpful to boost a man’s ego, but the Cancer ascendant must be painful and spiky at times for someone with little other water in the chart. This is not excusing poor behaviour, of course.
That Mars-NN opposite Moon-SN speaks of somebody who projects anger and feels good about doing so, using the easiest and cheapest route possible.
Sorry correction- 9 New South, not 9 New North
Virgoflake, the Leo Sun Jupiter Mars Pluto between 11-25 degrees opposite a 22 degree Aquarius Moon I know had a very controlling angry overbearing religious, devoid of spirituality Mum. To date he has not learned to ameliorate the energy. Pluto is in 10 near MC. Very quick to temper with women.
Yes, that Mars opposition Moon, intertwined with the all-important nodal axis like that and turning that Grand Trine into a kite, is critical. It really describes what he’s being accused of here. Uncanny.
I can only imagine what he’s like when he’s off stage and unfiltered.
Thanks, Marjorie. Yes, you can sense the uncomfortable rage and cruelty behind his comedy and that Aquarian Mars opposition Leo Moon does not surprise me one bit. It would be interesting to know more about his experience of his mother, since I have known the opposite, a Leo Mars opposite an Aquarian Moon in which the individual, who always seemed to fall out with women experienced an angry, jealous, overbearing, religious mother.
Personally I,ve never found him funny as I don’t like the comedy of cruelty. He once played (very convincingly) Frankie Howerd and I thought he was very good in that role, since he showed the pain, darkness, and sexual struggles behind Howerd’s facade.
His retrograde Virgo Mercury is on the IC (along with Virgo Pluto in 4th) hinting at a fussy criticised upbringing. The Mercury is square to Gemini Saturn making it even more critical but it’s also widely square to Neptune which suggests some confusion. So I wonder if there might have been criticism or disparaging remarks which were then brushed off with a “I was only joking” which left him never quite sure of what was expected. And while I’ve never watched him but I’m guessing that has become his approach to humour.
So either a second t-square there or somehow it connects to the Sun one.