The Natal Registry · Music

Sidney Bechetborn under Mercury retrograde

An American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who was one of the first important soloists in the genre and recorded several months before Louis Armstrong. — born May 14, 1897, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Gemini.

BornMay 14, 1897(1897–1959)♊︎☿ Rx in Gemini · 3°48′Rx windowMay 9 – Jun 2, 1897
☿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
♊︎Frank Capra♉︎John Douglas Cockcroft♊︎Odd Hassel♉︎Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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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