Trigram
Mountain
艮Kên (Wade-Giles) · gèn(pinyin)
keeping still, resting — the mountain path, the gate, stillness.
- Attribute
- keeping still, resting
- Direction
- northeast
- Season
- late winter into early spring
- In the family
- the youngest son
- Image
- the mountain path, the gate, stillness
Directions and seasons follow the Later Heaven arrangement, the one Wilhelm's commentary uses.
Doubled, it speaks as
As the lower trigram
- 15 Modesty
- 31 Influence
- 33 Retreat
- 39 Obstruction
- 52 Keeping Still, Mountain
- 53 Development
- 56 The Wanderer
- 62 Preponderance of the Small
As the upper trigram
In the constellation
Kên in the field: the doubled figure, where the trigram speaks in its own voice, and chapters that carry it above and below.