So What IS Going on in Our Country???

Alot it seems for a Mercury retrograde period.  Why is that? The next two big planetary pairs to coincide with a change in consciousness, Uranus and Pluto, have entered the theater.  They were last in conjunction (together in the sky) 1960-72 when all the social reforms, the Social Security Act with Medicare and Medicaid, the sexual revolution with "the pill', the women's movement (NOW), immigration reform, civil rights and the war on poverty, were enacted.     Uranus and Pluto were in a closing 90 degree square late 1920's-mid 1930's, when gold was confiscated by the US government, several years of financial panic followed and the dollar devalued, among other worldwide social changes.  Uranus and Pluto have been coming closer to exactness since January and the "Arab Spring".  They are as close as they will get to each other this year, these weeks, late July to mid August.  Next June 2012 they will begin a series of 7 exact  passes through 2015, we had only 4 passes in the 30's. What we are seeing now is only the beginning of a universal human awakening of our instinct  to survive -that same call that the young Egyptians responded to.   Uranus the reformer who wants freedom, brings a sudden uprising or awakening and meets Pluto, who symbolizes the struggle for survival, who over turns the staus quo so that things are never the same after.  (Think Egypt those young people had no idea that their protests last January would result in their leader in jail, on trial 7 months later-much less the movement spreading throughout their region).  These 2 planets in early cardinal signs are affecting the USA's natal Venus (finances and values) and Jupiter (lots of).  And then in a few years our natal Sun (our identity).   Uranus the awakener and Pluto the reformer have been triggered by the planet Mars (action, energy and sometimes violence) these past few days as that planet entered Cancer (feelings and domestic security) so the the nastiness of the long drawn out debt ceiling debate, the market crashing, the USA's credit rating getting downgraded because we are seen as not being able to govern ourselves, the single worst days for American casualities in Afghanistan -are all events that fit the symbolism of the planetary movements. This turbulence should continue through mid August as Mars moves through Cancer triggering the planetary setup in our natal chart. This is of course in conjunction with the USA having her Saturn return when the belt must tighten as we have gotten too fat (our natural tendency with a Venus and Jupiter conjunction). Saturn returns happen every 29 1/2 years, even in our own lives and mark a time period of constriction and downsizing, when we are called upon to mature, to take responsibility, to live according to who we are.    Our natal Saturn is in the 10th house of reputation, how we are seen and Saturn is there again. The last time Saturn came around the Sun to this place was in 1981-82 with Ronald Regan as president. The conservative Federalist Society was formed at that time with the express mandate to get more conservative lawyers on the Supreme Court. (They did it!!) On the previous exact Saturn return, October 22 1981, we were informed that the national debt topped 1 trillion dollars-sound familiar? Saturn  makes a 90 square to our natal Sun (our identity) in our natal chart,  indicating we are fearful (Saturn) of change and must be forced into it (a square).  So we see that it is timely that the conservative forces are so strong, people want to talk about debt  and we are experiencing a down grade to our reputation and status in the world.    And then there is Mercury.....