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坎

№ 29 · waiting and timing

The Abyss

The Abyss teaches crossing danger not by heroism, but skill and sobriety.

dangerdepthrepetition

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

习坎：有孚，维心亨。行有尚。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

Repeated Chasm: there is trust. The heart alone has free passage. In action there is esteem.

维心亨 is compact; “the heart alone” is a close syntactic reading, not a psychological doctrine.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

zhouyi-29-guaci · sha256:a2df7092a804c726bab8aabf958a58caf7872aae171d406d381079392443c8b6

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：习坎，入于坎窞，凶。

Initial Six: repeated chasm; entering into the pit within the chasm. Misfortune.

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：坎有险，求小得。

Nine in the Second: the chasm has danger. Seek a small gain.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

六三：来之坎坎，险且枕，入于坎窞，勿用。

Six in the Third: coming and going, chasm after chasm. Danger, and a place of rest. Entering the pit within the chasm: do not use.

险且枕 is difficult; “danger and a place of rest” is deliberately literal and provisional.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：樽酒簋贰，用缶，纳约自牖，终无咎。

Six in the Fourth: a vessel of wine, a second dish, using an earthen jar; a simple offering admitted through the window. In the end, no blame.

簋贰 / 纳约 are ritual and textually compact; the draft keeps the modest-offering scene without doctrinal expansion.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：坎不盈，祗既平，无咎。

Nine in the Fifth: the chasm is not yet full; only when it is level. No blame.

祗既平 is difficult; this draft follows a “reaches level” reading.

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：系用徽𬙊，寘于丛棘，三岁不得，凶。

Top Six: bound with cords and ropes, placed among thorn bushes. For three years one does not obtain release. Misfortune.

徽𬙊 contains rare graph forms; the draft reads the phrase as binding cords and flags it for textual review.

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zhouyi-29-line-6 · sha256:5aa8610561cb303ec5c249ebfe8adec293953dbac37e83d968b11fa7547f9993

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳上 · Tuan Commentary I象傳上 · Image Commentary I

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The matter involves repeating fear, risk, or deep emotional pattern.

Advice

Do not leap. Use tested supports, ask for help, reduce risk.

Caution

If there is real danger, real help is needed, not only symbolic reading.

How to read lines

  • • First read The Abyss as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a The Abyss day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, The Abyss asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • Where have I been in this abyss before?
  • • Which support is tested?
  • • Whom should I call?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “The Abyss” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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