You know, when you see someone wearing an emerald ring on their pinky finger (or any green stone on the little Mercury finger for that matter) they are almost certainly doing so on the advice of a Vedic astrologer, if they are not a Vedic astrologer themselves.

And if upon making this observation you guessed that the person’s sidereal ascending sign would be Mercury ruled- so either Gemini or Virgo- the odds would be in your favour.

This is Nicholas Maduro, the controversial and beleaguered President of Venezuela, with the chart given for him in astro.com‘s astrodatabank. It gives his ascendant as 21 degrees Tropical Cancer, which would be the end of Sidereal Gemini. Interestingly, Mercury is located a mere 14 minutes from the Sun in sidereal Scorpio.