井 → 豫
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 16: Enthusiasm
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 4, 5).
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 3
九三 井渫不食。為我心惻。可用汲。王明。並受其福。
Nine in the third place means: The well is cleaned, but no one drinks from it. This is my heart's sorrow, For one might draw from it. If the king were clear-minded, Good fortune might be enjoyed in common.
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.
Trigram Changes
Yilin Verse
同氣異門，各別東西。南與凶遇，北傷其孫。
Of the same breath yet separate households; each parts east and west. Going south, one meets with misfortune; going north, a grandchild is harmed.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood, the well once served a single community — but now siblings of the same breath scatter through different gates, parting east and west. Those who go south encounter misfortune; those heading north lose their descendants. The verse describes a family rupture: brothers who share one lineage but separate into rival branches, each meeting calamity in their own direction. From The Well to Enthusiasm, thunder erupts from the earth with galvanizing energy. Yet this dispersal inverts Enthusiasm's unifying power: where Yu should rally people around a single drummer, here the shared wellspring fractures, and the thunder that should inspire collective action instead scatters the clan to the four winds.
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