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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: One solid line caught between two broken — light trapped in the depths,
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danger with a heart of clarity.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Kan
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> *One solid line caught between two broken — light trapped in the depths, danger with a heart of clarity.*
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Kan is the trigram of **Water**, ☵: a single yang line held between two yin lines, above and below. The strong line is buried in the middle, hidden in the depths — and this is the whole figure's character. Kan is the Abysmal, the trigram of the ravine, the flood, the plunge into the deep. It is danger, but a danger that is meant to be moved through rather than avoided: water flows into the most dangerous places, fills them, and passes on. The yang line at its core is the sincerity and clarity that survives at the very center of peril.
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As the second son to receive a yang line — this time into the middle place — Kan is the **Middle Son**. Its [element](/knowledge/elements) is straightforwardly Water, and the **Later Heaven** arrangement seats it in the **North**, the direction of winter, midnight, and the cold deep. It stands directly across the water-fire axis from its sibling [Li](/knowledge/trigrams/li), the two of them the great complementary pair of the middle generation — the abyss and the flame, the hidden light and the clinging light.
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In divination Kan warns of hardship, entanglement, and repeated peril, but it is not a counsel of despair: like water, one prevails by staying true to one's inner nature and flowing steadily through the danger rather than thrashing against it. Constancy of heart is the yang line at the center that carries one out the far side.
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## The Figure
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| Attribute | Value |
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| Glyph | ☵ |
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| Image | Water |
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| Attribute | Abysmal, danger |
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| Family | Middle son |
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| Direction (Later Heaven) | North |
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| Nearest Element | Water |
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## Related
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- [Li](/knowledge/trigrams/li) — the water-fire axis; fire to Kan's water, its exact complement
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- [Zhen](/knowledge/trigrams/zhen), [Gen](/knowledge/trigrams/gen) — the eldest and youngest sons
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- [Qian](/knowledge/trigrams/qian), [Kun](/knowledge/trigrams/kun) — the father and mother of the eight
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- [Elements](/knowledge/elements) — the Western elements, the trigrams' cousin
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- [Taoism](/knowledge/religions-of-the-world/taoism), [Trigrams](/knowledge/trigrams)
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