The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Jim Mattisborn under Mercury retrograde
The retired Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 26th United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019 and commanded forces in the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War. — born September 8, 1950, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Libra.
BornSeptember 8, 1950(b. 1950)♎︎☿ Rx in Libra · 1°22′Rx windowSep 4 – Sep 26, 1950
✶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.