The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership

Allen W. Dullesborn under Mercury retrograde

first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) — born April 7, 1893, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aries.

BornApril 7, 1893(1893–1969)♈︎☿ Rx in Aries · 6°45′Rx windowMar 22 – Apr 14, 1893
☿Natal Mercury retrograde♈︎AriesWikipedia
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy

Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a fire-sign keynote in Aries: Patience over impulse; reread before you fire off.

Shares a retrograde sign with
♈︎Émile Zola♈︎Kim Il-sung♈︎Samuel Beckett
Born inside the very same window
♈︎Walter Baade♈︎Dean Acheson♈︎Karl Mannheim♈︎Palmiro Togliatti

Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.

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