Yi Jing · Chinese tarot
Obstruction
Hexagram 39 of the Yi Jing · 蹇 Jiǎn
The figure
Water above the Mountain: danger ahead, stillness behind — caught between the abyss and the wall. The image of the obstruction that forces a halt.
What this figure illuminates
Obstruction lights up the dead ends where the frontal advance is blocked. The reflex of blaming the outside exhausts; the figure invites you instead to turn back on yourself and seek a third party's support.
For a decision, the figure shifts the gaze: “facing this block, what can I change in myself or my approach, rather than hitting the wall again?”.
A question to keep
Facing the block, what can you change in your approach?
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