The Natal Registry · Public figure
Qaboos bin Said Al Saidborn under Mercury retrograde
The longest-serving leader in the Middle East and Arab world, who ruled Oman as Sultan for nearly half a century from 1970 until his death in 2020. — born November 18, 1940, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Scorpio.
BornNovember 18, 1940(1940–2020)♏︎☿ Rx in Scorpio · 12°44′Rx windowNov 1 – Nov 21, 1940
✶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.