Hexagram 29 · line 1
The Abysmal (Water)
坎Kǎn
Depth repeats, and the passage descends into the pit within the pit. Misfortune.
Line statement
初六
習坎，入于坎窞，凶。
Depth repeats, and the passage descends into the pit within the pit. Misfortune.
Line 1 enters the pit at the floor of lower Water. Changing it to firm makes Lake below Water and yields Hexagram 60, where the opening is bounded by measure.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · base
Line 1 is the base of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an odd place: not aligned
Its yin polarity does not match the traditional odd-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 4: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 4; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes