The Natal Registry · Business
Bernard Madoffborn under Mercury retrograde
The admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion, and former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. — born April 29, 1938, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aries.
BornApril 29, 1938(1938–2021)♈︎☿ Rx in Aries · 26°30′Rx windowApr 11 – May 5, 1938
✶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
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.