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Herbert Simonborn under Mercury retrograde
An American scholar who won the ACM Turing Award and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his theories of bounded rationality and satisficing. — born June 15, 1916, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.
BornJune 15, 1916(1916–2001)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 10°57′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.