The Natal Registry · Business
J. Paul Gettyborn under Mercury retrograde
The American petroleum industrialist who founded Getty Oil Company and was named the wealthiest living American by Fortune magazine in 1957. — born December 15, 1892, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Sagittarius.
BornDecember 15, 1892(1892–1976)♐︎☿ Rx in Sagittarius · 16°23′Rx windowDec 2 – Dec 22, 1892
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a fire-sign keynote in Sagittarius: Travel hiccups; pack the charger and the patience.
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.