井 → 大有
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 14: Great Possession
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 4, 5, 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 4
六四 井甃无咎。
Six in the fourth place means: The well is being lined. No blame.
Line 5
九五 井冽。寒泉食。
Nine in the fifth place means: In the well there is a clear, cold spring From which one can drink.
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
大輿多塵，小人傷賢。皇甫司徒，使君失家。
The great carriage raises much dust; petty men wound the worthy. Huangfu the minister causes the lord to lose his house.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood, the well serves the community — but a great carriage raises too much dust, and petty men injure the worthy. 'Minister Huangfu' drives the lord from his own household. The 'great carriage' raising dust recalls the Shijing's image of power that obscures rather than illuminates. The Huangfu clan produced several prominent officials in the Han era; the verse likely alludes to a minister whose overreach displaced the ruler he served. From The Well to Great Possession, fire blazes above heaven in superabundance. The well's measured distribution is overwhelmed by Dayou's excess: when possession grows too great and the wrong hands control it, the household's master becomes an exile in his own domain.
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