The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
David Sassoliborn under Mercury retrograde
President of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022 — born May 30, 1956, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.
BornMay 30, 1956(1956–2022)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 2°18′Rx windowMay 14 – Jun 7, 1956
✶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
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.