The Natal Registry · Writing
Alan Mooreborn under Mercury retrograde
The acclaimed English comic book author who wrote Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, often requesting his name be removed from reprints under the credit 'The Original Writer'. — born November 18, 1953, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Scorpio.
BornNovember 18, 1953(b. 1953)♏︎☿ Rx in Scorpio · 17°25′Rx windowNov 3 – Nov 23, 1953
✶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 Scorpio: Buried truths surface; resist the 2am confession text.
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.