The Natal Registry · Film & Stage
Alan Aldaborn under Mercury retrograde
The American actor and filmmaker best known for portraying Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the CBS sitcom M*A*S*H, where he also wrote and directed numerous episodes. — born January 28, 1936, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aquarius.
BornJanuary 28, 1936(b. 1936)♒︎☿ Rx in Aquarius · 14°50′Rx windowJan 23 – Feb 13, 1936
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a air-sign keynote in Aquarius: Tech glitches multiply; back everything up now.
Shares a retrograde sign with
Born inside the very same window
Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.