Non-Audio Wednesday; September monthly horoscope

Good morning. Wednesday is usually audio day — but I’m taking the week off from doing new astrology interpretations.

Here is the audio archive so you can browse weekly presentations going back to spring.

And here is the September Monthly Horoscope — usually a subscriber product for those who receive Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. For new readers, I want you to see the work that we do for our subscribers here at Planet Waves. We will be back with an archive selection later, new tarot writing by Sarah Taylor, and Len Wallick’s daily astrology feature tomorrow.

Eric Francis

PS, for those following the egg scandal — half a billion factory-made eggs recalled for fear of salmonella — you might enjoy this short video on cage-free egg farming.

19 thoughts on “Non-Audio Wednesday; September monthly horoscope”

  1. aword, thanks for the info about Spider plants! I once read something about which common houseplants are best for cleaning the air but could not recall any of the info and not sure how to search for that.

    I don’t know if anyone will see this post as it is late and the blog has moved on, but thought I might as well share that I was inspired by your comment about the coming flu “season”/vaccine, quoting the CDC: β€œThe 2010-2011 flu vaccine will protect against three different flu viruses: an H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and the H1N1 virus that caused so much illness last season.” http://www.cdc.gov/flu/ ; and also by Len’s reference to eggs (being used in the vaccine production) to do just a little research, so I thought I would share what I found:

    Egg recall story from CBS, with numerous links to further info:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/26/health/main6807557.shtml

    Solution for egg-eaters according to Michael Pollan: buy from Farmers Markets:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20014722-10391704.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

    http://www.vaccinetruth.org/how_vaccine_is_made.htm (this is a bad scan of a printed flyer or poster, hard to read)

    this abc story is more useful:
    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=5835673&page=2

    (excerpt)
    Eggs Instrumental in Flu Vaccine Production
    Once the strains have been selected, they are farm-raised in the finest eggs that can be found, much as they have been since the 1950s.

    “The process for growing it is very much the same,” said Morse.

    The eggs must be fertilized and FDA certified that they are safe from infections and other pathogens.

    “These are especially high quality,” he said.

    That raising technique also explains why it is sometimes hard to produce enough of the vaccine. Each dose of the vaccine requires three eggs–one for each strain.

    ……………….

    I found the following a touch ominous:
    (from page 3 of above cited:)
    Among the major changes on the way is the ability to grow the virus in cell cultures, rather than in eggs, a development which should enable manufacturers to make the vaccine in greater quantities.

    ……………….

  2. Thanks, Kyla! I’ve loads of Spider plants in my apartment – somewhere along the way heard that they were “the best” for cleaning air.

    (Ya, I’m lucky re: my kids. So glad they “get it” on many different levels! πŸ˜‰

  3. Hey, aword, glad your kids have that attitude! goodness…… here’s to your health!

    Len, I had no idea eggs were involved in flu vaccine production???? Most interesting indeed, good catch on the timing of this.

    Concurrently with whatever vaccine/flu is being brewed up, of course, many alternative (read beneficial and working) health products are being removed from reach….

    anyway, I understand having oxygen on hand in some form is an excellent preventive. Liquid ox. is expensive but worth it if you can possibly use it, ozone generators apparently are relatively affordable compared to actual oxygen machines…..(I intend to research that) And of course, being near to as many green plants as possible, not a real pathogen killer but increasing oxygen seems generally a strengthening thing to do.

    for what it’s worth, y’all.

  4. Beware any vaccine, but especially this:

    “The 2010-2011 flu vaccine will protect against three different flu viruses: an H3N2 virus, an influenza B virus and the H1N1 virus that caused so much illness last season.”

    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/

    “An egg today is better than H1N1 tomorrow” —-borrowed liberally from Ben Franklin.

  5. Thank you, Eric. Genevieve and zk are spot on about your September horoscopes. Amazing and inspiring.

    As to the egg thing. It has some dream-like qualities because eggs are so symbolic and recognizable to our consciousness. There is also the issue of vaccine production that carries this incident above and beyond being a food issue. It is August, after all, about time to start manufacturing new batches of flu vaccine. Hmmm….

  6. Hey Amanda,
    I figure any food, egg or otherwise, that is wrongly produced to begin with, then recalled and wrongly re-produced, is just plan WRONG no matter what processing is used to process it πŸ˜‰

    Kyla,
    I agree with your concerns, especially since I live in a very urban area and it isn’t easy living “healthy”.

    I have been wondering if farmer’s using SEWAGE for watering purposes can still label crops “organic”? I fear this could be true (as this is legal and pushed by government) – this and many many more concerns bring me too back around to “only small local” farmers – as much as possible.

    We do not have much$$ left over for food once the rent and utilities (bare minimum) are paid each month and so eating healthy is always an adventure – and combination of the best we can get from the local food kitchen (usually out of date, rotting – and even re-called eggs…..) and what we can afford from the local health food store (we are grateful for what we can use from the food kitchen, and from time to time there are awesome things from TJs that we would never buy otherwise! How ironic is that! AND we are equally fortunate that we have a WONDERFUL health food store right up the street where we can get other necessities – like local chicken and raw milk – of which we use little, BUT what we DO use we prefer to make choices wherein there is actual nutritional value – AND support the people who are interested in providing same.)

    My kids and I agree: Hungry and Healthy is better that Satiated and Sick.

    May the Day come when we can all be Healthy AND Satisfied.
    ;+!!

  7. i wonder if they’re going with UV pasteurization rather than the heat method? I know UV light is used for many foods these days, including apple cider. but i have no idea which methods are considered better/worse for which foods.

    not that i’m a big fan of having to pasteurize cider by UV light, either; just seems unnecessary. but then, i’, thinking of small, local operations.

  8. One thing that concerns me about this egg business is the “added scrutiny” directed at eggs in general in the food supply chain. Because that “scrutiny” under the guise of “better protection for the consumer” can very easily translate into regulations making locally produced eggs from “scratch chickens” less available and affordable. “Scratch chickens” means chickens that are allowed to scratch and pick and peck somewhere…… thus, bug-eaters, thus definitely not vegetarian, and hard to certify organic, even!

    I remember when the E coli thing with spinach happened, I continued to purchase organic baby spinach, and had several remarks from grocery store cashiers along the lines of “Oh, you’re risking the spinach?” Meaning, the spin tended to make people less likely to trust organic food….. even though it turned out that poor handling in a non organic production situation was the real source of the contamination.

    eh.

    so it goes.

    As for these eggs, I don’t eat many eggs but the ones I buy are as local and organic as I can find (without keeping my own chickens!) so I doubt if I am going to connect with an egg from Iowa! Have not watched the video Eric shared but I do believe the label cage free is more trustworthy than “free range”; factory farming is most often cruel in one way or another.

  9. We have three chickens, and supply about balances with demand in our household. πŸ™‚

    However chickens are *hard work*! I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for as the person responsible for their upkeep. Food, water, shelter, protection from foxes and stoats, de-worming, red mite prevention. And a lot of cleaning. Just one night and the coop needs attention.

    I cannot begin to imagine what conditions are like for them in a cage where they cannot move, with constant artificial daylight, and where they are undoubtedly left to stew in their own juices, so to speak. Cruelty beyond belief.

    Our three chooks are battery rescues.

  10. Fe,

    For sure. The bigger warning, of course, being that (we know) they will find a way to profit MORE and that we will most likely not discover where those tainted eggs land in our processed food chain.

    These corporations will NOT take a financial “hit” beginning I’m sure with the corporation suing the egg farmers who supplied the tainted eggs.

    – and the corporation will certainly reap the profits from re-cycling the re-called merchandise.

    I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that the cost of collecting and returning the re-called eggs falls on the shoulders of the markets that stocked them , too. (And those grocery store chains mostly being corporations in their own right too, and then well, we know where the REAL COST hits. The consumer pocket book. — We will get to pay, one way or the other, for the priviledge of consuming those same eggs another way.

    Unless we find a neighbor who raises chickens……;-) I raise my soft-boiled cup to That!

  11. Linda

    Milk most certainly is cooked by being overheated. It’s rendered close to non-digestible; enzymes and other nutrients are killed. It is turned into a processed food. Of course we all learned about how wonderful the Pasteurs were, but really this is a crude process.

  12. Yea, re: pasteurizing eggs. I thought the same thing – What? pre-cooked eggs? For what purpose? McDonalds’ breakfasts?

    But then, ‘they’ pasteurize milk and it’s not “cooked” – so who knows.

  13. Doing a little cheerleading – Eric, glad to see you are taking some down time to take care of yourself and recharge the battery and creative energy! You put so much work and time and your energy into Planet Waves. Every post, article, horoscope, podcast is quality work, and we here at Planet Waves appreciate your work and you so much!

    The September horoscopes are bang on incredible! If you’re reading this and your not a subscriber check them out and then subscribe. That’s the kind of quality work that Eric produces in audio, article, and forecast.

    And the mercury retrograde special audio report was exactly what I needed, when I needed it to help me navigate all the relationship stuff that’s coming up and demanding attention in my life. When I was listening to the two part general Mercury retrograde section I kept thinking, “but what about relationships, that’s what’s demanding attention in my life now and refuses to go on hold for a month”. And then low and behold when I clicked on the Pisces audio forecast section you answered every question I had and then some! It was almost eerie how spot on you described exactly what’s going on with relationships in my life and what’s going on with me. Thank you for all the time and energy and work you put into that audio! It really has may an incredible difference in my life!

    – Gen

  14. Um Pasteuriezed?

    As in pre-soft-boiled eggs?

    I knew a Sealtest salesman from back in the day. He said that all expired ice cream that got sent back to the factory was recycled into supposedly fresh chocolate ice cream.

    Every industry has a method like this, and it’s usually the highest profit item.

  15. The eggs I eat have to come from chickens who run around, cage free.

    BTW, they taste better.

    eric-len:

    Food scares at the Pisces Full Moon during the beginning of a Merc retrograde? The PW almanac is writing itself.

  16. I read somewhere (sorry can’t find article now) a week or so ago that the parent company was going to pasteurize the tainted eggs and re-distribute them.

    Wonder how old those newly pasteurized eggs are going to be by the time people consume them? Among all the other issues.

    Yuck.

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