Mercury is Retrograde and Mars sets of the Uranus Pluto Square

Good morning. For Saturday August 6, 2011 the Moon is in Scorpio and there is a 1st Qtr Moon. This has to do with the sad state of affairs actually that we’re hearing about the debt. The United States has been downgraded now from a no risk country to invest in. so now this is going to affect all of us. The credit rating being down graded is a very difficult situation. The seed to this story goes back to a New Moon in Scorpio 9 months ago at the mid-term election in November. The lot of new people that came into the government came with a different agenda. It appears that their goal is not to govern but to dismantle the government. With the nature of the pressure of the Uranus and Pluto square, this can be a treacherous time period in attempt to put the country back together. The rest of the story is yet to come in 9 months and the payoff is 9 months after that. In 9 months there will be a Full Moon on May 5, 2012 then a Last Quarter Moon in Scorpio on February 3, 2013.
In our personal lives we might be dealing with things like births and deaths and anything having to do with the regeneration process, trying to gather resources, doing a lot of research and entering into monetary agreements with others. There is a lot of positive energy for digging in deeply and making an attempt to renew an old process.

We have retrograde Mercury and its theme is to renew, review and redo. It is the retake that gets the green light. Listen closely, more forward after researching your topic very thoroughly. Many subjects that have been initiated under the Mercury retrograde have the potential to be reversed once Mercury turns direct after August 26, 2011. Hopefully that will be the case that this won’t be a forever long term thing.
For Sunday August 7 the Scorpio Moon continues. Its final aspect is a conflict with Neptune in a square at 11:13 am and that begins a void of course Moon period. You want to avoid any commitment Saturday and Sunday and Monday morning. Between now and then there are a lot of difficult traps with Neptune at the end of Aquarius it creates a great big pile of traps. That is likely to create a very sticky set of situations. If you enter into loans you may really regret it right through until Monday.
The other aspects that we have under the Scorpio Moon Venus is opposite Vesta now. Vesta is the investor. Venus is the money maker. The two of them at odds really describes this down grading of the US credit rating. Then the Sun and Palace Athena: Palace Athena is the Goddess of wisdom. So they are aligned together in a long term aspect called a parallel. And this will help the situation considerably if they put all the good minds together and try and work through these current issues. For us on a personal level, that creates a greater bonding with our partners, to be able to get together and pull things in the right direction.
For Sunday at 11:20 am The Sagittarius Moon begins. During Sunday’s activity there are a couple of things. Retrograde Mercury goes back and hits Ceres with a 150° quincunx. Ceres is the goddess of food and supplies and children and care taking. This 150° aspect I call it life’s messy - clean it up aspect. So there might be things about the care of children that seem to be cut back or cut off. Also those that are aged and infirmed may have a hard time with that aspect trying to get their situation stabilized. This aspect may reveal some sad stories for kids and pets.So take extra care of your little ones.
Later on Sunday Venus and Saturn make a very nice aspect. This has to do with organizing an opportunity to repair and create a bridge especially with economic conditions or anything having to do with couples. Now people who were trying to split may decide they need to stay together – that what that aspect might be uncovering that it is cheaper to stay together than it is to split. So they may rearrange their relationships in another way instead of moving out of the house.