The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Herman Van Rompuyborn under Mercury retrograde
Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council (born 1947) — born October 31, 1947, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Scorpio.
BornOctober 31, 1947(b. 1947)♏︎☿ Rx in Scorpio · 19°00′Rx windowOct 25 – Nov 15, 1947
✶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
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.