The Natal Registry · Science & Tech
Simon Johnsonborn under Mercury retrograde
A British-American economist who served as Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and has been the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan since 2004. — born January 16, 1963, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aquarius.
BornJanuary 16, 1963(b. 1963)♒︎☿ Rx in Aquarius · 4°17′Rx windowJan 11 – Feb 1, 1963
✶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.