The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Recep Tayyip Erdoğanborn under Mercury retrograde
The Turkish politician and statesman who has served as president of Turkey since 2014, having previously led the country as prime minister and mayor of Istanbul. — born February 26, 1954, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Pisces.
BornFebruary 26, 1954(b. 1954)♓︎☿ Rx in Pisces · 13°09′Rx windowFeb 20 – Mar 14, 1954
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a water-sign keynote in Pisces: Dreams loud, logic quiet; sleep on every big decision.
Shares a retrograde sign with
Born inside the very same window
Meanwhile, in the same window
Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.