Greetings fromВ New York City — I drove down here and realized I left my laptop in my office, which I’m going to take as a cue to pass on Thursday’s blog. An edition of Planet Waves AstrologyВ News is in the works for Friday, with the lead articleВ being called “The Shape ofВ Time.” It compares different models of time, including the digital vs. analog wristwatch, our calendar, the Mayan calendar and usingВ planetary cycles as a way of telling time. The article focuses on the midpoint between the Venus transits of the Sun in 2004 and 2012, and there’s the weekly horoscope, an article by Jude and some news for people who will be at UAC, the United Astrology Conference. We are running on schedule this week and expect to have the edition posted to the subscriber homepage by Thursday night Eastern time and in the email to you Friday morning at 9 am. Thanks for tuning in. — efc
Dear Friend and Reader:
If you want a good example of asteroid Atlantis, think of genetically modified foods. Atlantis is about our relationship to technology, and the threat that technology will take (or has already taken) a life of its own and run away with us. Ceres is about many things, but one of the most important is agriculture. The first minor planet ever discovered (in 1801) and named for the goddess of the harvest, she arrived at the dawn of modern science and was an unfortunate harbinger for industrial agriculture.
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Monsanto, a company I covered for some years and still follow today, is deeply involved in biotech. They cut and splice genes to do things like make wheat that is able to stand up to their weed killers. Plants and animals are mixed. Then the pollen from these tinkered-with critters is turned loose in the environment. If I had to pick one company in the entire world NOT to have this power in its hands, it would be Monsanto. Here is an article from 1999 called The Kemner Brief that looks at Monsanto’s history. If you read this, it’s going to make you angry — you might want to choose the time you do.
This is the fabulous company that brought you Agent Orange (the dioxin-contaminated Vietnam era defoliant, components of which are still available for sale in your local supermarket), Nutrasweet (aspartame, which is deadly), PCBs, Bovine Growth Hormone and many, many sources of dioxin. Take 20 minutes and read The Kemner Brief and you’ll have a clue just how evil this company is. In fact, if you want a working definition of evil, you can check in with Monsanto.
Lately I’ve been getting email about something called Morgellons disease. One was sent last week by Roberta, who helped me with the Dioxin Dorms project last year. Then Ursula in Toronto synchronously chimed in about 48 hours later, asking what I knew. I started looking around, sending her link after link as I found them, and got really creeped out. This is not easy. I have read about, heard about and walked through the scene of enough disgusting chemical disasters for 10 lifetimes. I have documented how Monsanto tested dioxin on its employees, trying to figure out what the stuff did.
Now, if you were to ask me if Morgellons disease, a bizarre syndrome involving weird sores with extremely tough threads coming out of them, and the feeling of bugs beneath your skin, is caused by genetically modified foods, I would say: I don’t know.
If you asked me if I believed it was possible, I would laugh. It is so possible it’s ridiculous, and I was sitting at my kitchen desk thanking the gods and goddesses and my own common sense for eating as much as possible from the organic food aisle and for being medically banned from eating wheat. Then a few days later, I went to the High Falls Food Coop and paid about $7 for a pound of organic butter (to avoid BGH, a genetically modified bovine hormone that increases milk production, and udder infections) and I recognized that if you have a kid or three, you’re not going to be shopping there or anywhere like it. And this being the case, most people are confined to feeding their children genetically altered biological material.
You may wonder if a French fry potato that is altered to kill a beetle (Monsanto’s New Leaf potato is a registered pesticide) can harm you. You may wonder if extra pus in milk resulting from the use of BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) is bad for you or your kids. You can wonder, but that does not make it safe. My colleague Peter Montague described genetic engineering as a vast, uncontrolled experiment on the planet, because the pollen from genetically altered plants mixes with the pollen from natural plants.
And to think that Monsanto, who left dioxin contamination in Lysol at the same time that they were recommending people use it to disinfect kids’ toys, is one of its leading purveyors.
Atlantis, indeed.
“As I have said, this isn’t the first time your civilization has been at this brink. I want to repeat this, because it is vital that you hear this. Once before on your planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your ability to use it responsibly. You are approaching the same point in human history again. It is vitally important that you understand this. Your present technology is threatening to outstrip your ability to use it wisely. Your society is on the verge of becoming a product of your technology rather than your technology being a product of your society. When a society becomes a product of its own technology, it destroys itself.”
— Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsh
Wednesday 07 May 2008
Pandora (15+ Scorpio Rx) semisquare Pluto (0+ Capricorn Rx)
Mars (28+ Cancer) quincunx Juno (28+ Sagittarius Rx)
Atlantis (15+ Libra Rx) trine Ceres (15+ Gemini)
Mercury (7+ Gemini) septile Mars (28+ Cancer)
Mercury (7+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Jupiter (22+ Capricorn)
Hidalgo (11+ Scorpio Rx) sesquiquadrate Hades (26+ Gemini)
Mercury (7+ Gemini) quincunx Chariklo (7+ Scorpio Rx)
Mercury (7+ Gemini) semisquare 1992 QB1 (22+ Aries)
Sun (17+ Taurus) sextile Varuna (17+ Cancer)
Venus (9+ Taurus) quincunx Pholus (9+ Sagittarius Rx)
Oracle takes us back to September 01, 2002 – Aries – Monthly
You will have a lots of company if you get the yen for doing your own thing your own way. Oh, wait, that’s the Thing that I’ve been writing about in this space for months. There are times when astrology provides us with better metaphors than any translation thereof, so I ask: what do you think it means that the asteroids Dionysus and Bacchus join Jupiter, the god of wisdom, joviality and excess, in your Fifth House of celebration, creation and taking risks? It must mean something. (If you’re a parent, please get your kids an account with the local cab company, or set up a network of rides and stash the car keys.) If you’re any species of impassioned, inspired or illuminated, you are being given cosmic license to celebrate the moment and celebrate the season. And while we’re into the astrology, Chiron’s renewed forward motion across your career angle says that such revelries will provide wholesome professional fuel.
Thank you Eric for bringing this topic up, I just hope that all astrologers will look into this some more on all levels possible, even like MonsantoВґs chart and their future and when are the masses finally going to wake up to this catastrophic problem.
We have to turn this around!
Some more
STARTLING FACTS LINKED TO CHEMICALS IN OUR FOOD SUPPLY
1. We now use about 10 lbs. of pesticides per year for every man, woman and child in the U.S.
2. Humankind is in danger of not being able to reproduce within 50 years; thereby creating the decline in population in unindustrialized nations, which would bring on an economic collapse.
3. Some foods, such as regular peanut butter, average over 10 different pesticides in one sample.
4. 110 out of 144 communities in Ohio have 4 or more herbicides and insecticides in every glass of water. These chemicals are not removed by water treatment such as chlorination.
5. Endocrine interrupting pesticides can alter the sex of a child during the first 6 weeks of pregnancy. In some cases, causing a person to have traits of the opposite sex.
6. Chemical exposure often causes more problems in children than in the parents who were exposed.
7. A person living in Omaha and drinking city water consumes the maximum amount of atrazine (a spray used on corn fields) in only 2.6 years.
8. Chemicals used to control mosquitoes in the 60’s saved 6 million lives from malaria. However, the residue in soil and crops may last for 100 years, and the benefits may not offset the losses in the next decade.
9. Household cleaning solvents and lawncare products are now creating health problems.
10. Four solvents used in plastic food containers volatilize and now appear as residues in over 20% of our food.
11. If a person eats a normal amount of fresh non organic fruit from a supermarket on a daily basis, in one year they will have also consumed about one gallon of pesticides.
Source: FDA Total Diet Study, “Toxics A to Z” by Harte, et al, and www. foodnews.org
To help lessen the effects of pesticides choose organic ingredients, wash all produce, eat a varied diet, use natural cleaning products and make sure your yard is pesticide free.
ЛњWe can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. –Abraham Lincoln
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/morgellons.html
This is the link to information about morgellons and the many cures that people have wrote in. Ted describes morgellons as a nano-superbug, developed for industrial use.
Anyone who think nanotechnology isn’t scary is nuts. Scientists are experimenting with growing parts of all types of animals, with no thought as to thoughts, feelings, pain, suffering or any other ethical issues. If I were having a baby today, I would demand that all blood and tissue be packed for me to take home and bury in the backyard.
There was a woman who wrote in at http://www.earthclinic.com (my favorite website) and said that her husband worked at a chemical company where a nano-bug was developed for cleaning purposes. The whole family was infected with this bug, which acted like the Morgellon’s disease of all the articles on the web. The company was in Texas, and that seems to be where a lot of the break-outs began. At any rate, it does get under the skin – some of the genes that have been spliced into the bacteria are from various animals. It is horrifying what is going on. There are several treatments for Morgellon’s outlined at earthclinic, and readers write in to say what worked and didn’t work. Good luck to anyone with this horrible disease. As for me, I use a little borax in every wash load now, because it kills any and all bugs. That is important, especially if you are purchasing clothes at yard sales and 2nd hand shops these days.
“Ted” from Taiwan, is one of the chief contributors at the earthclinic.com. She is a chemist who has tested a lot of the ‘home remedies’ and she comments and answers almost all the questions. This is a free ad for the clinic, but know that I am not a doctor or associated with medicine at alll. I am a gardener and soap maker and love trying herbal remedies of every sort.