The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Sonia Sotomayorborn under Mercury retrograde
The first Hispanic and third woman to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009. — born June 25, 1954, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Cancer.
BornJune 25, 1954(b. 1954)♋︎☿ Rx in Cancer · 18°37′Rx windowJun 23 – Jul 17, 1954
✶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
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.