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Kan, the abyss or gorge, doubled. Danger doubled. Or perhaps not.
I have always had trouble with this trigram and the assumption of dangerous badness related with it. Sure, if the image is about being on a high mountain pass and seeing a river raging in the ravine far below, sure, then there is danger---of falling. If the image is simply standing on the bank of a raging river, sure, there is danger---if one is foolhardy enough to try to swim it.
Before thinking further on this image in isolation, contrast it with Tui, which is the marsh or lake. What is the difference between these two types of water? Structure, relationship to gravity, boundaries. Kan is a time of clear gravitational pull and well defined boundaries. Tui is a time of near gravitational equilibrium and amorphous boundaries.
And so Xi Kan, the doubling of the torrent, is a time when the outer and the inner principle alike are in clear relationship with the primal forces and are well structured. To foolishly oppose or even try to cut across such currents is destined to failure. To follow along the bank to the place downstream where the waters calm is destined to succeed. Soon it will change.
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