Hexagram 29 · line 3
The Abysmal (Water)
坎Kǎn
Coming and going, danger upon danger. Even the resting place is insecure; one enters the pit within the pit. Do not act.
Line statement
六三
來之坎坎，險且枕，入于坎窞，勿用。
Coming and going, danger upon danger. Even the resting place is insecure; one enters the pit within the pit. Do not act.
Both arrival and departure meet an obstruction, and the apparent resting place is insecure. The passage interrupts movement that would only deepen the difficulty. Changing Line 3 produces Hexagram 48; that structural destination does not cancel the original warning.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · boundary
Line 3 is the boundary 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 6: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 6; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes