Clash

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Two branches sitting directly opposite each other — a collision that forces movement.

The twelve branches sit in a circle, and each has an opposite. When both appear in a chart, or when a year brings one against a branch you already hold, the tradition calls it a clash.

A clash is disruption, not doom. It shakes something loose: moves, breakups, job changes, relocations. Charts that are too settled sometimes need one.