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Jim Simonsborn under Mercury retrograde

The founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund that used mathematical models to make him the most successful hedge fund manager of all time. — born April 25, 1938, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Aries.

BornApril 25, 1938(1938–2024)♈︎☿ Rx in Aries · 28°43′Rx windowApr 11 – May 5, 1938
☿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
♉︎Claudia Cardinale♈︎Bernard Madoff♈︎Larry Niven

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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