The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Wesley Clarkborn under Mercury retrograde
United States Army general and 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate — born December 23, 1944, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Capricorn.
BornDecember 23, 1944(b. 1944)♑︎☿ Rx in Capricorn · 0°39′Rx windowDec 13, 1944 – Jan 2, 1945
✶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.