井 → 同人
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 13: Fellowship
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).
Line 1
初六 井泥不食。舊井无禽。
Six at the beginning means: One does not drink the mud of the well. No animals come to an old well.
Line 2
九二 井谷射鮒。甕敝漏。
Nine in the second place means: At the wellhole one shoots fishes. The jug is broken and leaks.
Line 4
六四 井甃无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The well is being lined. No blame.
Line 6
上六 井收勿幕。有孚元吉。
Six at the top means: One draws from the well Without hindrance. It is dependable. Supreme good fortune.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
履位乘勢，靡有絕蔽。為隸所圖，與眾庶位。
He treads the seat of power and rides upon momentum; nothing shields him from ruin. Plotted against by slaves, he takes his place among the common ranks.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood, the well raises what lies below — yet here elevation becomes exposure. One ascends to a position of power and rides the momentum, seemingly invulnerable, with nothing to block the view. But servants plot against him, and he ends up seated among commoners. The verse traces the classic arc of the overly visible official who attracts envy from below. From The Well to Fellowship, fire blazes beneath heaven, illuminating everything. The well's quiet utility contrasts sharply with Tongren's radical openness: what the well conceals within its walls, Fellowship exposes to all. Power exercised without fellowship's discernment of allies and enemies invites the servants' conspiracy.
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