The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Clarence Thomasborn under Mercury retrograde
The second African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and the second longest-serving justice in history, nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall. — born June 23, 1948, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Cancer.
BornJune 23, 1948(b. 1948)♋︎☿ Rx in Cancer · 2°52′Rx windowJun 11 – Jul 5, 1948
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a water-sign keynote in Cancer: Family ghosts call; let old feelings finish their sentence.
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.