A querent drawing this changing line is caught in a misunderstanding rather than a conflict, and the distinction is the entire counsel. Someone approaching them is being taken for an opponent, or the querent's own approach is being received that way, and in both cases the intent is a union of some kind. Readings arrive here on proposals mistaken for takeovers, offers of help mistaken for criticism, and overtures whose bluntness has been read as hostility.
The line locates the cause precisely, in speed and in plainness. An unornamented approach carries no signals for the other party to read, and an approach made at pace gives them no time to look for any. Neither is a fault, and neither is deception; together they simply produce an impression that is wrong. The remedy the image implies is to slow down long enough for the intention to become legible, since nothing here needs to change except the reading.
Yielding and correctly placed at the base of the upper trigram Gen, the stroke reaches across the hexagram toward the first line, and the firm third stroke standing between them is the source of the interference. A querent should therefore expect the obstacle to be positional rather than personal, someone in the way rather than someone opposed. The line offers no verdict of fortune, which suits it: the outcome depends on whether the parties stay long enough to recognise each other.