The Natal Registry · Film & Stage
Richard Dean Andersonborn under Mercury retrograde
The American actor who rose to prominence as the lead in the television series MacGyver from 1985 to 1992 after starting his career on General Hospital in 1976. — born January 23, 1950, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Capricorn.
BornJanuary 23, 1950(b. 1950)♑︎☿ Rx in Capricorn · 20°23′Rx windowJan 8 – Jan 29, 1950
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a earth-sign keynote in Capricorn: Career wires cross; confirm every meeting twice.
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.