Hexagram 29 · line 4
The Abysmal (Water)
坎Kǎn
Wine in a jar, grain in a companion vessel, with plain earthenware; a modest offering passes through the window. In the end, no fault.
Line statement
六四
樽酒簋貳，用缶，納約自牖，終无咎。
Wine in a jar, grain in a companion vessel, with plain earthenware; a modest offering passes through the window. In the end, no fault.
Plain vessels and a modest offering keep the encounter possible under constraint. The window suggests an indirect opening for contact. Changing Line 4 produces Hexagram 47.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · base
Line 4 is the base of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 1: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 1; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes