Water

Hexagram 29 Kan (䷜): In the Abyss—Crossing Danger with Sincerity

In the sixty-four hexagrams, Kan (䷜) is the twenty-ninth, also called “repeated Kan.” Its image is Kan over Kan—water upon water, “water coming again and again,” danger piled on danger. Kan speaks most directly to risk. Its lesson is not to glorify fear, but to show how to dwell in danger without losing trust: hold the center through trials, keep self-command, and in time cross through and turn peril to passage. It is a mirror for mindset and choice in hardship, and a practical guide for moving through storms.