The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Nikolai Ryzhkovborn under Mercury retrograde
The last chairman of the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers and Boris Yeltsin's leading opponent in the 1991 Russian presidential election. — born September 28, 1929, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Libra.
BornSeptember 28, 1929(1929–2024)♎︎☿ Rx in Libra · 22°55′Rx windowSep 25 – Oct 17, 1929
✶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.