The Natal Registry · Music
Jerry Goldsmithborn under Mercury retrograde
An American composer and conductor whose innovative film and television scoring career spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, earning him eighteen Academy Award nominations. — born February 10, 1929, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aquarius.
BornFebruary 10, 1929(1929–2004)♒︎☿ Rx in Aquarius · 14°00′Rx windowJan 29 – Feb 19, 1929
✶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
Meanwhile, in the same window
Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.