井 → 震
Hexagram 48: The Well → Hexagram 51: The Arousing Thunder
Changing Lines
This transformation involves 5 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
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 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
遊魂六子，百木所起。三男從父，三女隨母，至已而反，各得其所。
The wandering soul and the six children; a hundred trees arise from this source. Three sons follow the father; three daughters follow the mother. Reaching the end, they turn back; each finds their proper place.
— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE
Commentary
Water drawn up through wood, the well stands at the center where all family lines converge. The wandering spirits of the six children arise from the hundred trees. Three sons follow their father, three daughters follow their mother; at the proper point they turn back, and each finds their place. The verse draws directly on the Shuogua Zhuan's trigram family: Qian-father and Kun-mother generating the six children-trigrams. The 'wandering spirits' (遊魂) refers to the youhun hexagram theory where trigrams travel and return. From The Well to The Arousing, doubled thunder shakes the firstborn son awake. The well's centering force organizes the cosmic family, and Zhen's thunder announces the eldest son stepping forward to claim his role.
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