Heavenly Signs: The Centennial Transit of Venus

Heavenly Signs: The Centennial Transit of Venus By Hwaa Irfan Astronomers, astrologists, comoslogists, and New Agers have been gearing up to the expected moment of June 05/6th 2012. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will observe using the moon as a mirror. Eighteenth century astronomers (June 6, 1761) would travel far to view the transit, becuase they [...]

Delivering Music Therapeutics to the Homeless

Delivering Music Therapeutics to the Homeless   Where can you find 50,000 homeless people on the streets any night of the week exposed to all the elements as well as human brutality – Skid Row, Los Angeles, U.S.! We don’t hear about them often in the mainstream press, as many of us manage to maintain [...]

14-Year Old Conductor Takes the Stage

14-Year Old Conductor Takes the Stage “Music has to be recognised as an agent of social development in the highest sense because it transmits the highest values of solidarity, harmony and mutual compassion,” “I’ve sought to take music, which is usually a luxury item, and turn it into cultural patrimony accessible to all”. These are [...]

Heavenly Signs: The Twilight Annular Eclipse of the Sun

Heavenly Signs: The Twilight Annular Eclipse of the Sun By Hwaa Irfan As the new crescent moon welcomes the blessed month of Rajab 1433 around the 21st May 2012, the 2012 eclipse of the Sun expected on May 21st, is an annual event, but this year it is with a difference. That difference surrounds the [...]

Do You Want to THRIVE?

Do You Want to THRIVE?   Even though this film was ‘THRIVE’ was produced by Foster Gamble, an heir to the Proctor & Gamble fortune, this is a “must see” film. P&G’s dominance in many categories of consumer products over the past 175 years makes its brand management decisions worthy of study. Procter and Gamble [...]

Left to Beg or Steal on the Streets of America!?

Left to Beg or Steal on the Streets of America!?   By Hwaa irfan One of the elements of the Indian economy that hs helped to keep it bouyant in the midst of a severe global economic crisis has been domestic spending. This has helped to prevent total dependency on external trade. This factor seems [...]

Behind the Masks of the Feminine XIII: Nux Vomica

Behind the Masks of the Feminine XIII: Nux Vomica – Strychnos nux-vomica   By Hwaa Irfan We began with 3 Minerals of the natrum group… I. Natrum muriaticum is a woman who is very much a product of the Industrial Revolution. She has grown up in an emotionally distant environment depriving her of what she [...]

Heavenly Signs: The Merry Month of May!

Heavenly Signs: The Merry Month of May!   By Hwaa Irfan Climatically speaking, the month of May used to be a month abundant with hope, and renewal at the height of spring. Spirits were high and energy levels positive. A time for children, and people of all ages, when life was also a little less [...]