The Natal Registry · Art & Design
Mark Rothkoborn under Mercury retrograde
The Latvian-born American abstract painter best known for his color field paintings featuring irregular rectangular regions of color produced from 1949 to 1970. — born September 25, 1903, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Libra.
BornSeptember 25, 1903(1903–1970)♎︎☿ Rx in Libra · 16°51′Rx windowSep 20 – Oct 12, 1903
✶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.