Trigram
Earth
坤K'un (Wade-Giles) · kūn(pinyin)
the receptive, devoted — the level ground that carries and yields.
- Attribute
- the receptive, devoted
- Direction
- southwest
- Season
- late summer into early autumn
- In the family
- the mother
- Image
- the level ground that carries and yields
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
02 The ReceptiveThe trigram repeated — earth above and below.
As the lower trigram
- 02 The Receptive
- 08 Holding Together
- 12 Standstill
- 16 Enthusiasm
- 20 Contemplation
- 23 Splitting Apart
- 35 Progress
- 45 Gathering Together
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
K'un in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.