Self-will

Spheres that use this interpretation:Obstacle point

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

Arcanum

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The obstacle shows up as capriciousness. The person acts as they see fit even where something else was agreed — and does it not out of spite, but because they "felt like it".

It costs the people around them dearly: such a person is hard to rely on, and gradually they stop.

What it blocks is the capacity to be in a couple. Behind this point is someone who knows how to love and to build something shared, but self-will puts their own wish above the agreement time after time, and nothing shared ever comes together.

What to do: keep what you promised at the moment you no longer want to. That moment is precisely the obstacle point, in its full extent.

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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