Pit After Pit
kǎn · Water over WaterIn repeated hardship, keep your heart steady and keep moving.
習坎：有孚，維心亨。行有尚。
Danger comes twice, pit after pit, water flowing on. Hold to good faith, and your heart can stay clear. Keep moving as water does, and your actions earn respect.
The six lines
初六：習坎，入于坎窞，凶。
You have grown used to danger and slipped into the deepest hole. This is a dangerous place, and it is easy to lose the way.
九二：坎有險，求小得。
You are in the pit, and the danger is real. Do not aim for everything; seek small gains.
六三：來之坎坎，險且枕，入于坎窞，勿用。
Pits ahead and behind you, and danger under your head. Do not act; any move goes deeper.
六四：樽酒簋貳，用缶，納約自牖，終无咎。
Wine in a jar, grain in a side dish, rough clay slipped in by the window. Honest plainness reaches through, ending without fault.
九五：坎不盈，祗既平，无咎。
The pit is not yet full, but the water has nearly reached level. Do no more than that, and there is no fault.
上六：係用徽纆，寘于叢棘，三歲不得，凶。
You are bound with ropes and set among thorn bushes. For three years the way out is lost. This is a hard and dangerous place.
The I Ching is a tool for reflection. Do not use it as the basis for medical, legal or money decisions.