The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership

Erich von Mansteinborn under Mercury retrograde

A German field marshal in the Nazi Army during World War II who was later convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years in prison. — born November 24, 1887, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Scorpio.

BornNovember 24, 1887(1887–1973)♏︎☿ Rx in Scorpio · 18°13′Rx windowNov 7 – Nov 27, 1887
☿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
♏︎Georgia O'Keeffe♏︎Bernard Montgomery♏︎James Batcheller Sumner♏︎Boris Karloff

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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