The Natal Registry · Film & Stage
David Copperfieldborn under Mercury retrograde
David Seth Kotkin, known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American stage magician and illusionist described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history. — born September 16, 1956, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Libra.
BornSeptember 16, 1956(b. 1956)♎︎☿ Rx in Libra · 11°43′Rx windowSep 13 – Oct 5, 1956
✶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 Libra: Contracts and exes resurface; weigh, don't rush to sign.
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.