The Natal Registry · Writing
Bernard Lewisborn under Mercury retrograde
The Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, whose expertise lay in the history of Islam and its interaction with the West. — born May 31, 1916, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.
BornMay 31, 1916(1916–2018)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 17°50′Rx windowMay 25 – Jun 18, 1916
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a air-sign keynote in Gemini: Your ruler stumbles; messages misfire most of all.
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.