The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Garret Hobartborn under Mercury retrograde
The 24th vice president of the United States, who served under President William McKinley from 1897 until his death in 1899. — born June 3, 1844, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.
BornJune 3, 1844(1844–1899)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 4°44′Rx windowMay 17 – Jun 10, 1844
✶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.