The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Thurgood Marshallborn under Mercury retrograde
The Supreme Court's first African-American justice, a civil rights lawyer who won 29 of 32 cases before the Court, including the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. — born July 2, 1908, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Cancer.
BornJuly 2, 1908(1908–1993)♋︎☿ Rx in Cancer · 13°57′Rx windowJun 21 – Jul 16, 1908
✶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.