Andrew Lloyd Webber is a leading light in music and Broadway. One of the few that we can perhaps hope to regard at that “Wagner level”. This is a stick that I hold up for some reason despite the fact that I’m happy to be able to get through a song.
Can talent of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magnitude be seen in a natal chart?
The Sun is right at the beginning of Aries. This would suggest that Andrew is fiery and he starts exciting things. Pallas Athena is somewhat aligned with this Aries Sun. Athena is a goddess energy. She will fight through art and patterns but at a certain point, Athena can be expected to do what needs to be done, if it is for Justice. This combination of the Sun and Pallas Athena in Aries screams that Andrew is a fighter - for art, culture and what’s right.
That Andrew’s fighting spirit comes from a place of generosity and benevolence can be seen in the difficult (square) between Pallas Athena/Sun and Jupiter in Sagittarius (ruled by Jupiter).
I also have Sun square Jupiter in my chart and I have to deal with a difficult infamy, persecution and scandal. Jupiter amplifies what it touches and the Sun can indicate fame. We can imagine that Andrew’s fame is not an easy one but he is hugely famous.
We also can see the shocking eccentric communications revolutionary in the square between Uranus in Gemini (media) and his Sun in Aries.
Uranus (technology, the masses), Jupiter (knowledge) and Neptune (spirit) are in difficult aspects with Andrew’s fiery core self (Aries). To have a difficult aspect with Neptune in Libra (art, relationships, music) and his Sun, could come across as someone very empathetic and wounded, who can pour that feeling into beautiful Music (Neptune).
As soon as I looked at Andrew’s chart, I could see that he feels deeply and a lot of it is very painful - difficult aspects between Mars energy and that of Neptune can be a lot of anger and pain. Perhaps this is what fuels his sublime and sensitive work.
Andrew is a great communicator and we can see that here. He has Mercury in Pisces. This could be someone who communicates about spiritual matters. We all know that Andrew is the composer of a musical about Joseph from Genesis and the particularly great musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. In his most recent musical, Bad Cinderella, Andrew also explores themes of spiritual persecution that tend to pop up again and again.
This place of communication - Mercury in Pisces (telepathy) is square the Moon (emotions) in Leo (royalty, the establishment). Perhaps there are emotional difficulties involving media and the establishment. What further suggests that there are such problems can be inferred from the alignment of Mars (fire), Saturn (restriction) and Pluto (pain, transformation) with the Moon (intuition).
All of these planets are in Leo which suggests a certain grandeur, and also the potential and drive (Mars) to transform (Pluto) the establishment (Saturn, Leo).
We are seeing all of this deep difficulty and pain put to very good use in Andrew’s courageous new musical Bad Cinderella, which appears to be his very best so far.
The good news with this difficult stellium of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Pluto is that Andrew has a trine with Uranus in Gemini. He also has a trine from this stellium to Jupiter in Sagittarius.
Perhaps Andrew has a lot of painful emotions (Mars, Moon, Saturn, Pluto) but he may have easy access to supernatural abilities (Uranus) and the natural ease to teach and learn and grow in a truthful way (Jupiter in Sagittarius).
I’m looking forward to seeing what this great artist is bringing to the public sphere. We should always be very sensitive with him! I have a chart like his (lots of squares) and it hurts.