Hexagram 29 · line 6
The Abysmal (Water)
坎Kǎn
Bound with braided cords and confined among thorns; three years pass without release. Misfortune.
Line statement
上六
係用徽纆，寘于叢棘，三歲不得，凶。
Bound with braided cords and confined among thorns; three years pass without release. Misfortune.
Cords and thorns turn the repeated depth into an image of confinement. The stated three years describes the severity of that scene, not a personal sentence or a countdown supplied by the cast. Changing the top line produces Hexagram 59.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- outer · boundary
Line 6 is the boundary of the outer trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yin in an even place: aligned
Its yin polarity matches the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 3: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 3; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes