Dear Friends,
As we approach the Michaelmas time, we can be proud that through Anthroposophy we have gained the central insight that the human beings, as well as the nature surrounding us, are inexorably connected to the cosmos and its impulses.
We share these views with all those who have learned to value Rudolf Steiner’s work and are working hard to research these cosmic rhythms.
We apply them in the manufacturing of the remedies that we have found subsequently to be particularly beneficial to the people needing them.
As an example of our efforts, we want to draw your attention, this time, 
to a paper that we have recently published in which we were able to show that as the Moon proceeds to go through various signs of the zodiac it influences in specific ways the growth and proliferation of individual cell lines.
The present figure shows one aspect of that paper, where we have demonstrated that two various cell lines grow better when the Moon is going through the constellations of Pisces, Scorpio and Cancer, which are all three connected to the water element.
Title: Moon transits against the backdrop of different sidereal constellations affect the growth of various in vitro cell cultures: a pilot study.– Article 6 on the page.
We acknowledge of course the inspirations coming to us from such central prior workers like Rudolf Steiner with Lilly Kolisko, Maria Thun, and others.
Following the research part, the dedicated coworkers of the True Botanica company, under the guidance of Dr. Mark Kamsler, ensure that these results find themselves embedded in the many health bringing substances.
We thought that in this context the following quotes from Rudolf Steiner may be of interest (Edited for length and context):
…although great progress has been made in chemistry…it has been made without a certain kind of necessary reverence. In the future, we will have to develop this sense that the Laboratory Table will have to become an Altar Table. … We will have to become conscious that the laws of the Cosmos operate even through the laboratory bench—even in a chemical experiment—whenever we dissolve one substance in another to obtain a precipitate or the like. We will have to feel ourselves to be within the entire universe; then we will be set to work differently, and then we will discover things quite differently from what people have discovered today …these things are great but will not be able to bear the right fruit, because they are discovered without reverence, without the feeling that is permeated by the harmony of the universe. 4.29.1918
As we learn from Rudolf Steiner’s Leading Thoughts, Michael’s greatest satisfaction comes from the fact that the human beings have chosen to align themselves with the cosmic star world on their descent to incarnation.
Continuing to consciously connect all our activities on earth itself with the impulses of the planets and stars is a great personal contribution that each anthroposophist can make towards a Michael Festival.
Ultimately, as Rudolf Steiner reveals, the Michael Will and the Christ Will are one:
(Beings that have learned to know the Christ…will be able to instill into man other thoughts than those that assert that there are only material atoms; they will be able to teach that, even to the minutest particle of the world, the substance is permeated with the Spirit of the Christ. And, strange as it may seem, there will be in the future chemists and physicists who will not teach chemistry and physics as they are now taught under the influence of the backward Egypto-Chaldean spirits; but who will teach that ‘matter is built up in the way in which the Christ gradually ordained it.’ The Christ will be found working even in the very laws of chemistry and physics. (The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind, GA 15, Lecture III)
Wishing all a Warmth and Light filled Michael Festival,
For the Kolisko Institute and the True Botanica Teams,
Ross Rentea MD