USA's Birthday a Bad Pick?

Ray Andrews wrote on alt.astrology.moderated@googlegroups.com:

I have read about how the founding fathers of USA were into Astrology.....especially Benjamin Franklin.

My question is why did they pick July 4, 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence?

To me, it seemed like a bad day to sign because of Sun Square Saturn and Mercury retrograde in Cancer

The Sun is in alignment with Sirius which is said to be a powerful star.

but I don't think that it trumps Sun square Saturn

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it would seem to me that planetary aspects are more important than fixed star alignments.

maybe USA's Sun-Sirius alignment and Sun square Saturn share a theme. It could be issue of pride, ambition as well as arrogance of a patronizing nature (how dare our nature we act like somebody else's parents because our culture is superior - views shared by many outside the USA)

Sirius * the Dog Star the Sun of the Sun the prime Sun of our Galaxy Ambition, pride, emotionality, fame, leadership, wealth, fires, drought, danger through impetuosity.
http://www.astrologycom.com/fixedstars.html#Cancer

a retrograde Mercury in Cancer, is not a good time to be signing documents....obviously when they signed the declaration of Independence,they didn't have all Americans in mind

the retrograde Mercury has an opposition to Pluto, but the founding fathers didn't know about the undiscovered Pluto at the time. But to me, this country can have emotional biases that adversely affect decisions as well as can be very suspicious,and distrustful of others who they might not see as patriotic because they question the government.

Ironically, USA was a country founded by people who rebelled against the ruling British government. If anything, back in those days, they could have been viewed as being unpatriotic or traitors to their sovereign nations.

the same with Sun in Cancer square Saturn in Libra which doesn't seem like they truly cared about justice when they signed the document.

Justice was very limited...I would say. Of course, conflict with authorities.

I would like to get some thoughts from others about this.

Raymond