Hexagram 29
With thanks to Lise for this illustration. See Lise's Book of the Moon in the Links section.
Kan is the name for the Middle Son. His sign is the moon, his direction is the North, his color is black, his symbol is Water and the black tortoise. He represents yin within yang. His image is The Abyss, 1 light line enclosed by 2 dark lines.
In Kan, Hexagram 29, 2 dark lines enclose the one light line. It symbolizes the divine nature locked within by the natural inclinations and tendencies .
"The Hexagram is explained in two ways: First, man finds himself in danger, like water in the depths of an abyss. The water shows him how to behave: It flows on without anywhere piling up, and even in dangerous places does not lose its dependable character. In this way the danger is overcome. " Book III, The Commentaries
. Book III, The Commentaries.
Kan is one of the hexagrams called the "timeless ones, so primordial that they are, in their essential nature, outside the cycle of time.
The Uncontrolled Mind
The natural tendency of our minds is to be driven by uncontrolled desires. All outward dangers originate within with excessive self-cherishing and uncontrolled thoughts of anger, envy, lust, revenge, and greed."
Dark Lord
"We are not so much punished for our sins as by them." Arachnid Sage
Kan means "repeated entrapment or precipitous and dangerous." The Classic of Changes by Edward L. Shaunessey from the Mawangdui Manuscript
