Taking Risks to Radically Improve Your Situation

Have you ever found yourself in a situation, one that you knew simply had to change, but you didn’t like any of your choices for how to change it?

Then let me tell you about a daring German man from World War II ... and a free article ... that you might find inspiring. 

Wilhem Canaris: One Risk-Taker Who Made History

On Tyler Tervooren’s website, http://advancedriskology.com/, he says that he started it “for one extremely important reason – I want to help everyone I can to take smarter and more beneficial risks in their lives.”

By signing up for Tervooren’s free newsletter-by-email, I received part 1 of his series, “5 Risks That Made History.” In it, he tells how Wilhelm Canaris risked his life as a triple agent to help save millions of lives and to contribute to Adolph Hitler’s downfall.

(You can see Canaris's birth chart birth chart. Point and click on it to see a larger image of it. You can also read  Canaris's biography on Wikipedia at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris .)

After telling Canaris's story, Tervooren goes on to pose some questions that one might ask oneself, questions related to changing one’s own current situation, by taking a risk.

When We're All Faced With Whether to Take a Risk

Introducing his questions for self-reflection, Tervooren says this:

“It's happened to all of us at some point. Maybe you thought it was the right place to be, but turns out, it wasn't. Perhaps you weren't paying attention and literally fell right into it. Either way, you feel trapped but, like Canaris, there's probably another option…. No matter how set in stone your options seem, there's always another way out. It usually isn't easy, and it certainly isn't obvious, but it's better than the alternative.”

I found Canaris’s example inspiring. And I found the questions that Tervooren included after it to be good food for thought.

Want to Read Tervooren's Article in Its Entirety?

If you’d like to read “5 Risks, part 1” in its entirety, just email me at proudphoenix@pobox.com and I’ll forward it to you. (If you’re wondering about any copyright infringement, Tervooren wrote, “This content is uncopyrighted. Please use it to change the world as you see fit.”)

Alternatively, you can go to the Advanced Riskology website (and then go toward the upper right-hand corner of the page) to sign up for the newsletter yourself.

And What About the Astrology, in the Case of Canaris?

I thought that it might be interesting to look at Canaris’s birth chart and consider which natal potentials, symbolized in the chart, he drew on to take the risk that he took.

Here are two questions to ponder:

1.Where in his chart do you see the potential for Canaris to act in a daring way, for the sake of principles that he  believed in, and for the sake of saving other people's lives?

2. Looking at those same symbols, if Canaris had chosen to express them in a "lower path" sort of fashion, what's one way that you could imagine him having done that?

I'll post my own answers to these two questions below, but before you read them, please try your own hand at the questions.

And consider posting your answers.

You do not need to be astrology's equivalent of Einstein to post them! ;-)

You just have to be willing to share them with the rest of us.