Hexagram 48 · King Wen sequence
Hexagram 48: The Well
井 · Jing
A dependable source exists, but access, maintenance, or distribution may need attention.
Upper and lower trigrams
Reflection meaning
A dependable source exists, but access, maintenance, or distribution may need attention.
Repair the system around the resource, make access reliable, and judge value by what can be repeatedly drawn from it.
If this hexagram appears in a changing reading
Changing lines mark the parts of the six-line figure that move from yin to yang or yang to yin. Those changes generate a second hexagram. Oracle Mirror presents the first hexagram as the current symbolic pattern and the transformed hexagram as a second lens on the direction of change; it does not treat the second figure as a guaranteed future event.
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