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Margherita Hackborn under Mercury retrograde

Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013) — born June 12, 1922, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.

BornJune 12, 1922(1922–2013)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 29°23′Rx windowJun 5 – Jun 29, 1922
☿Natal Mercury retrograde♊︎GeminiWikipedia
✶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
♊︎Muammar Gaddafi♊︎John Maynard Keynes♊︎Angelina Jolie
Born inside the very same window
♋︎Judy Garland♊︎Aage Bohr♊︎Erving Goffman♊︎Eleanor Parker

Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.

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