The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership

Tetsu Katayamaborn under Mercury retrograde

The first socialist prime minister of Japan, serving from 1947 to 1948 and remaining the last non-Liberal Democratic Party leader until 1993. — born July 28, 1887, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Leo.

BornJuly 28, 1887(1887–1978)♌︎☿ Rx in Leo · 6°15′Rx windowJul 15 – Aug 8, 1887
☿Natal Mercury retrograde♌︎LeoWikipedia
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy

Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a fire-sign keynote in Leo: Friend-group static; egos bruise easily, soften the send.

Shares a retrograde sign with
♌︎Michael Jackson♌︎Fidel Castro♌︎Jorge Luis Borges
Born inside the very same window
♌︎Marcel Duchamp♌︎Gustav Ludwig Hertz♌︎Vidkun Quisling♌︎Rupert Brooke

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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