12/29/2010
The Genius of Jupiter in Pisces from Jeff Jawer's Tarot Blog
We generally think of learning as adding new information to what we know. The data poured into our heads at school by teachers and at home by parents accumulated and grew into pockets of expertise and waves of understanding. The more we accumulate, the more we know … or think we know. But intelligence is not solely about the sum of facts, as any ineffectual genius will demonstrate. It is the ability to apply knowledge effectively or manipulate and express concepts skillfully.
In Astrology, Mercury is the planet of lower mind, the means by which we gather and communicate ideas. Its position in a birth chart represents the manner in which we observe, collect and share information. Someone with Mercury in watery Cancer, for example, must connect emotionally with material to get it while a person with Mercury in earthy Taurus needs concrete examples to maximize learning. While we usually notice cycles such as Mercury Retrograde, the messenger planet normally moves through zodiac signs so quickly that we can’t easily assess their impact on collective thinking. Slower moving Jupiter, though, is a more reliable guide to changing patterns of education.
Jupiter represents the higher mind of meaning, vision and philosophy in contrast to Mercury’s role as data collector. It spends about a year in each sign, providing a clearer picture of how we can assimilate information and turn facts into understanding. Jupiter’s role in education is evident in the Sanskrit name the ancient Indians gave to this planet. It is “guru,” which means teacher.
Jupiter spent the majority of 2010 in Pisces, the super-sensitive, spiritual and imaginative last sign of the zodiac. Pisces is about absorption without effort and knowing without knowing how we know. It is the truth that lives in silence, the dark matter of outer space, and in the junk DNA in our bodies. Pisces is the page rather than the words written on it, so describing what we’ve learned this year can be difficult. It’s not what we’ve added to our databanks, that is, grown our minds, but recognizing the space between words and information, the infinite sea in which everything exists.
In practical terms this means that we’ve been learning by sensing things that we can’t necessarily put in words. This may seem like a contradiction, a trick in which nothing is credited with being something. Yet the wisdom of Jupiter in Pisces in about the relationships between the things we know so that we sense the connections among them. This occurs when we eliminate the artificial divisions the mind creates and recognize that everything is connected. We can recognize this during moments of peaceful reflection, in meditation, when we feel the connective quality of love or the all-encompassing beauty of nature. Music touches this, as does poetry and all great art that lifts us above the separating nature of words and punctuation to feel the unifying force of the universe that some call God.
Jupiter in Pisces is teaching us that spirit is indivisible, so that even in our darkest moments we remember that we are all part of something greater than our individual pain and suffering. It is a lesson of inclusion and forgiveness with gifts of faith and compassion that supersede all the boundaries of language and subject. We learn it when we let go of what we think we know and who we think we are. This surrender of the boundaries of the mind warms the soul and enlivens the spirit. When Jupiter returns to energetic Aries on January 22 (which it visited last summer), we will shift from the receptive stage of opening ourselves to universal mysteries to a new dynamic phase of individual taking action with what we’ve learned.
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AP News: In WikiLeaks wake, whistle-blower bill set to pass
In WikiLeaks wake, whistle-blower bill set to pass
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FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. No one has been charged with passing the diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. But suspicion is focused on Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak. Following the latest baring of U.S. secrets on the Internet, Congress is poised to pass legislation giving employees in the most sensitive government jobs a way to report corruption, waste and mismanagement without turning to outside organizations like WikiLeaks. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) - Following the latest baring of U.S. secrets on the Internet, Congress is poised to pass legislation giving employees in the most sensitive government jobs a way to report corruption, waste and mismanagement without turning to outside organizations like WikiLeaks.
President Barack Obama is expected to sign the bill, and it is viewed by supporters as a way to discourage leaks of classified information. It would give intelligence agency whistle-blowers a way to raise concerns within their agencies instead of giving classified materials to WikiLeaks or other outlets, which is illegal.
Without protections spelled out in law, whistle-blowers risk being fired or demoted for informing their chains of command about misconduct, according to Tom Devine, legal director at the Government Accountability Project. That leaves no alternative to anonymous - and potentially damaging - leaks unless whistle-blowers are willing to jeopardize their careers, he said.
"Until this law is passed, WikiLeaks will continue to be the safest option for whistle-blowers unwilling to engage in professional suicide," said Devine, who is coordinating support for the bill from a coalition of more than 60 public interest and advocacy groups.
The Senate is expected to approve the bill this week and send it to the House, where Democrats are planning to pass it quickly.
In an e-mailed statement, White House spokesman Josh Earnest called the bill "landmark legislation" that the Obama administration hopes "will be passed promptly."
The bill would not protect WikiLeaks or anyone who improperly reveals sensitive information. On Sunday, WikiLeaks, which uses the Internet to expose government secrets, released thousands of classified State Department documents, leaving federal officials fuming and scrambling to contain the damage.
No one has been charged with passing the diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. But suspicion is focused on Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak. Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday the Justice Department will prosecute anyone found to have violated U.S. law by giving government documents to WikiLeaks.
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act bars workplace reprisals against employees at the CIA and other intelligence organizations for telling their superiors about illegal activities, abuses of authority and dangers to public health or safety, according to a draft of the legislation.
The bill also requires the director of national intelligence to set up a special review board to resolve cases involving whistle-blowers who believe their security clearances were suspended or revoked as punishment for speaking out. This would mark the first time employees with clearances will be able to dispute an agency's decision regarding access to classified information.
It also gives expanded whistle-blower protections to civil service employees outside the intelligence agencies, including thousands of Transportation Security Administration baggage screeners and headquarters staff. The rights extend to employees who challenge the censorship or misrepresentation of federal research.
Whistle-blowers outside the intelligence agencies would also be able to seek a jury trial in federal court to appeal dismissals or demotions. An earlier version of a House bill extended this provision to intelligence employees. But Obama administration officials objected, arguing classified information would be compromised if these cases were heard outside a classified setting.
In a bid to draw attention to the risks whistle-blowers now face, Devine's organization prepared a report detailing the ordeals of 12 government officials whose employers sought "to enforce secrecy though repression."
Among them is Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency official who reported "massive fraud, waste and abuse" in agency surveillance programs to the NSA inspector general's office. Drake's reward, according to the report, was an indictment in April under the Espionage Act for allegedly making unauthorized contact with a newspaper reporter after he had exhausted all other means for disclosing the problems he witnessed.
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