A solitude that takes offence

Spheres that use this interpretation:Obstacle point

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

Arcanum

The Hermit

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The obstacle shows up as a contradiction: the person wants to be alone and takes offence when they are left alone. They push others away and expect them not to go.

The people around read this as inconsistency and in the end really do leave — which confirms the person's worst expectations.

What it blocks is the capacity to stand alone. Behind this point is someone who can walk their own path by themselves and afterwards show others the way; but genuine solitude does not take offence, and this one does, which is why it does not work.

What to do: say plainly what you want right now — to be left on your own, or for the others to stay. Here that settles almost everything.

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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