The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenbergborn under Mercury retrograde

A German army officer and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair on 20 July 1944. — born November 15, 1907, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Scorpio.

BornNovember 15, 1907(1907–1944)♏︎☿ Rx in Scorpio · 19°41′Rx windowNov 3 – Nov 23, 1907
☿Natal Mercury retrograde♏︎ScorpioWikipedia
✶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
♏︎Diego Maradona♏︎Carl Sagan♏︎Miley Cyrus
Born inside the very same window
♏︎Astrid Lindgren♏︎Burgess Meredith♏︎Ko Takamoro♏︎Henri-Georges Clouzot

Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.

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