The Natal Registry · Politics & Leadership
Herman Van Rompuyborn under Mercury retrograde
The Belgian politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. — 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.