The Natal Registry · Public figure

Pius XIborn under Mercury retrograde

The head of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939 and the first sovereign of Vatican City upon its creation in 1929. — born May 31, 1857, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.

BornMay 31, 1857(1857–1939)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 11°12′Rx windowMay 20 – Jun 13, 1857
☿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
♊︎Karl Adolph Gjellerup♊︎Edward Elgar♊︎Aleksandr Lyapunov

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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