The 64 hexagrams · Hexagram 29

What does I Ching hexagram 29, The Pit, mean?

The judgment

習坎：有孚，維心亨。行有尚。The pit, doubled: with trust, the heart gets through. Going on earns respect.Zhou Yi 周易, 坎, judgment. Source

The image

水洊至，習坎；君子以常德行，習教事。Water comes again and again. The noble person keeps steady in conduct and practises teaching.Zhou Yi 周易, 坎, image. Source

The six lines

Read from the bottom up. In a cast, only the lines that move are read, and they turn the hexagram into another one. Here they are in the original; a reading translates the moving lines and reads them for the question asked.

1. First line初六：習坎，入于坎窞，凶。
2. Second line九二：坎有險，求小得。
3. Third line六三：來之坎坎，險且枕，入于坎窞，勿用。
4. Fourth line六四：尊酒簋，貳用缶。内約自牖，終无咎。
5. Fifth line九五：坎不盈，禔既平，无咎。
6. Top line上六：係用徽纆，寘于叢棘，三歲不得，凶。

The Chinese is the received text of the Zhou Yi; the English is ours. Lines and images that speak of punishments, prisons, illness or money are left out. For entertainment and self-reflection.

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