I Ching · Hexagram 29
Kǎn: The Abysmal
Water upon water: one pit after another, like a river running through a gorge. Kan is a difficult stretch you cannot avoid, crossed by keeping faith with yourself and flowing on.
- Keywords
- Danger, repeated challenge, courage, integrity
- Upper trigram
- Water (Kan)
- Lower trigram
- Water (Kan)
- Advice
- Stay true to your core and keep moving like water, which does not stop at the edge.
Changing lines
When you cast this hexagram, any changing line is turning into its opposite: yang into yin, or yin into yang. Changing them gives a second hexagram that suggests where things are heading. Hexagram meanings are a starting point for reflection, not predictions.