井 → 坤
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 2: The Receptive
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 3 changing lines (lines 2, 3, 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 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
雨師娶婦，黃岩季子。成禮既婚，相呼而歸，潤澤田里。
The Rain Master takes a bride; the youngest son of Huangyan. The rites complete, the marriage done, they call to one another and return; moistening and nourishing the fields and villages.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood meets the yielding expanse of doubled earth. The Rain Master takes a bride, and the young man of Huangyan completes the wedding rites. The couple calls to each other and returns home, moistening the fields and villages with blessing. The Rain Master is a weather deity often identified with Chisongzi, the immortal of Shennong's era. The marriage of a rain god brings literal fertility: rainfall that soaks the land. From The Well to The Receptive, the well's nourishing function disperses across the widest possible field. What was drawn upward now sinks into the earth itself, and the devoted receptivity of Kun sustains what the well's structure once contained.
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