News You Can Use

by Michael Braunstein

Time again for another installment of News You Can Use, highlights of news around the world and headlines that point out how we might want to consider alternatives to the way we’re doing things, especially in areas affecting our health. First, let’s start off with headlines about why hospitals are exactly the places you want to avoid if you want to remain healthy.

Caution: Hospitals are hazardous to your health. We think of hospitals as safe places to go, especially if when sick. But if we stop and think about it, many of us have stories about a friend, loved one or relative who went to the hospital for a minor health issue and because of…

Medicine from Mummies

by Michael Braunstein

Western medicine has made some amazing advances in the past century or so. Its ability to market itself and affect so much of the world’s economy is impressive. The number of pharmaceutical and chemical interventions that Western medicine’s drug merchants have introduced to the marketplace and acquired governmental approval for is astounding.

But have methods of treatment and the understanding of the relationship between health and nature really advanced that much over the knowledge of those who practiced medicine in ancient Egypt, India or China?

Emergency trauma medicine in a modern setting can be awe inspiring. Do not dare to compare current practices of heroic emergency room measures with those of 5,000 years ago. However,…

Cosmic Forecast, July 21-July 27

by MojoPo

We are in the last days of the most introverted of signs (Cancer), traveling into the most extroverted of signs (Leo). Time to externalize what you’ve internalized since June 21st. He or she who never meditates is destined to a life of darkness. He or she who only meditates is destined to a life of greater darkness. Time to share the fruits of your inner world. Time to shine from within and share what you’ve learned/become from who you are and where/what you’ve been…once you’re ready. Look up Buddha Boy and/to learn that peace and love shall conquer all, and that there are no mistakes. It all starts within.
—MOJOPOPlanetPower.com

d CANCER (6.22-7.22)  Look and learn…

Must Be the Season of the Itch

by Michael Braunstein

Summertime is peaking and there’s a chance that you, like 500,000 other Americans, will enjoy the park or a picnic and return home with a friend. Her name is Ivy. Her victims call her Poison.

Contact dermatitis is her gift to you. It’s the result of touching the oily toxins in a trio of plants named poison ivy, poison sumac and poison oak. Though each is a different plant, all have something in common. They contain urushiol (pronounced oo-roo-shee-ohl) in their sap. Urushiol is among the planet’s most toxic substances. It likely won’t kill you (though it can,) but you might wish you were dead. As little as one-billionth of a gram of urushiol can cause…

Cosmic Forecast, June 30-July 6

by MojoPo

Happy 4th of July weekend! God bless AMERICA! I’ve been all around this world and everybody wants to live here. True, some of them want us dead first, but this fertile land is — and will be — destined to birth the Aquarian Age. Trust me. Look around you. These United States are where the tribes are meeting. Happy birthday, USA! Let’s get back to fulfilling our promise — our REAL destiny. Peace and love shall conquer all. There are no mistakes.

—MoJoPoPlanetPower.com

 d CANCER (6.22-7.22)  Yeahhhhh, babbbbby! You be happenin’, Cap-i-tain. The New Moon/Solar Eclipse is early on Friday, July 1st. Food, frolic, music, mom, apple pie and patriotism… What a weekend! And then, da da da dahhhhh! Here comes…

Cosmic Forecast June 23-29

by MojoPo

Welcome to the summer season, initiated by the sign of the universal mother, Cancer the Crab. Cancers are of the most sensitive of signs. The key phrase for the sign is “I hold onto.” That’s what the BIG CLAWS are for. Grudges, money, (in)security, a love that’s already met its quota and should’a been gone a long time ago. How does the MOJO know?

CANCER (6.22-7.22)  Please read the intro for any clues. You’re at least a week away. Early next Friday morning, on July 1st, is the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in your sign. ’Til then, it’s time to clean up the pad! After that,…

Cosmic Forecast, June 16-June 22

by MojoPo

Happy Summer Solstice, everybody! On next Tuesday, June 21st, the Sun enters the sign of Cancer at lunchtime. How appropriate. The sign of Cancer rules the stomach. You are what you eat; yet maybe it’s not food you seek. Here comes more heat, more rain and more humidity. Stay cool and work against the (over) flow. Instead, get right and travel light. Peace and love shall conquer all. There are no mistakes. — MOJOPOPlanetPower.com c GEMINI (5.21-6.21) Why are you here? Where did you come from? Why did you come here to/on Earth? What does it all mean? Too heavy, or too beautiful? It’s always 50/50 with you, right? One more week to think, and then it may/will…