The Natal Registry · Music

Maurice Jarreborn under Mercury retrograde

The French composer and conductor who won three Academy Awards and defined the sound of David Lean's films from 1962 to 1984. — born September 13, 1924, while Mercury traced its backward loop through Virgo.

BornSeptember 13, 1924(1924–2009)♍︎☿ Rx in Virgo · 16°34′Rx windowAug 29 – Sep 20, 1924
☿Natal Mercury retrograde♍︎Virgo✦Leap yearWikipedia
✶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
Born inside the very same window

Coincidence, not causation: the birthday and the window are real and ephemeris-based; the reading is tradition, offered in good fun.