(Tales of Alohi) Tulsi + Fluoride = Cleaner Water

My sister Alohi reposted a blog from last year that deserves another look, entitled:

Tulsi + Fluoride = Cleaner Water: an article in reflection.

It's a look at an experiment with the tulsi plant, also called Holy Basil, and its effects on reducing the concentration of fluoride in fluoridated water. 

Comments below the main blog point out (from the website of the Centers for Disease Control) exactly what "fluoride" is, where it comes from, and the many health and medical-ethics problems its addition to municipal water sources brings (listed from applicable Material Safety Data Sheets).  The conclusion is pretty clear.  Someone is being paid very, very well to pour poison into your water and make you think it's good for you.

I have yet to see in-depth studies on what it does to the environment, but that might be an interesting project to kick off with a kid's science project for school.

Mercury Retrograde - right and wrong

I find people cringing over Mercury Retrogrades more than any other planet, and really, it's not that bad.  In fact, we spend less time in a Mercury Retrograde per year than we do with any other planet.  (Pluto spends just shy of half a year at a time, grinding away in reverse...)  It's just that you can't fight the flow here: this time is meant for REVIEW, and for catching your balance again before you move forward again, if you leaped-before-you-looked.  It's all in how you look at it.  And so, at the risk of another shameless self-plug for GreenCorvid.com, here's my example of a Mercury Retrograde put to GOOD use:

RLS, pregnancy and energy flow

Sun: 28'Gemini
Moon: 28'Libra
Sun Trine Moon: Waxing Gibbous

Restless Legs Syndrome is truly torturous.  I've dealt with it for as long as I can remember in one degree of another, but now in the third trimester of pregnancy, it's worse than ever before.  It's a common side-effect of late pregnancy, and it is both debilitating and absolutely maddening.