NA TSA
Mo Dice Divination Meaning

The Scattered Mountain of Sand

The results of your goals are spoiled and scattered like dust is blown by the wind.

- should be grasped mentally

Where a mountain adorned with precious stones is set on a ground of gold, great astonishment is found.

- should be mentally visualized

Na Tsa, or “the mountain crumbling into dust,” represents the next destructive cycle in the great cycles of death and rebirth that govern our lives. There are no fiery implosions here, only the quiet forces of destruction that can weather even the greatest mountains into piles of sand, let alone insignificant human endeavors. You will find difficulty holding on to wealth or seeing your intentions through. Even those closest to you will feel distant, as if the forces of life have weathered away the connection you once had.

Your greatest enemy at this time does not come from the outside world but from within. In the face of such threats of failure, you may feel tempted to scatter your energies among multiple projects in order to ensure that at least one has a chance of success. However, that is the opposite of what you should do. In the face of all of life’s attempted distractions and obstacles, gather all of your energies within you and focus them on what you most want to achieve. Through the power of your inner will, if you maintain enough concentration, you will be able to persevere even as the odds are stacked against you.

It also helps if you maintain the right attitude during this difficult time. Each period of destruction is really a period that determines the potential energy of creation. Although what you have built may be destroyed, none of the elements that you used to create the life that you led will be taken away and you can use them to create new, more beautiful structures that will bring you joy once the time is right. Life is giving you the opportunity to exercise your divine powers of creation, even if it is making you prove that you can withstand a period of suffering first.

Steady spiritual practices and repeated offerings to the deities will help protect you during this time. Reciting mantras, such as the infinite wisdom contained in the Ratnakuta Sutra, will help focus your thoughts and energies even as life aims to tear them every which way.