Turning away from your lineage

Spheres that use this interpretation:Obstacle point

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

Arcanum

Judgement

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The obstacle shows up as estrangement from your own family and your own origins. What belongs to others seems more interesting and more worthy; what is yours seems narrow and shameful.

What it blocks is support underfoot. Behind this point is someone to whom the lineage gives strength and who is able to pass that strength on; having turned away, they are left without support and do not always understand why everything comes harder than it should.

What to do: get to know your own people. Not to love them out of duty, but simply to find out who they were and what happened to them. Estrangement here usually rests on not knowing.

A sign that it is receding: at least one thing of your own appears that you are not ashamed of.

Obstacle point

Obstacle point = DT + MT

The obstacle point is built differently from the other calculations, and that is important to understand before reading its interpretation.

In this system TP is the entrance to the best part of a person's karma: behind it stand their real talent and their strongest character trait. But the approach to it is blocked — by doubt, by the fear of doing it wrong, by the sense that in this particular matter one is weaker than others. That is exactly why a step that would come easily goes untaken for years.

Hence the main point: **the trait that TP names is not characteristic of the person.** It is not a diagnosis and not a defect, but an obstruction placed in front of a strength. If, on reading the interpretation, you felt stung — that is by design: recognition is itself the first step.

The task is not to fight yourself, but to see this obstruction and stop believing it. By this logic, what opens up behind it is the very thing the calculation is made for.

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