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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffonborn under Mercury retrograde
A French naturalist and mathematician who served as the director of the Jardin du Roi, now known as the Jardin des Plantes. — born September 7, 1707, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Virgo.
BornSeptember 7, 1707(1707–1788)♍︎☿ Rx in Virgo · 17°43′Rx windowAug 26 – Sep 18, 1707
✶Astrological tradition — for entertainment, not astronomy
Tradition reads a natal Mercury retrograde as the inward mind — drafted, revised, doubled back — and gives it a earth-sign keynote in Virgo: Your ruler too — schedules unravel; build in slack.
Shares a retrograde sign with
Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.