䷯ Hexagram 48: The Well

Judgment

THE WELL. The town may be changed but The Well remains the same. Its water level neither disappears nor receives any great increase, and the people can draw from it freely. Misfortune ensues if the rope breaks or the bucket is broken before it reaches the water.

Image

Water over wood: the image of THE WELL. Thus, you should comfort people and stimulate their mutual cooperation.

Description
Hexagram 48 is named 井 (jǐng), “The Well”. Other variations include Welling, Potentialities Fulfilled, The Source, The Deep Psyche. Its inner trigram is ☴ (巽 xùn) ground = (風) wind, and its outer trigram is ☵ (坎 kǎn) gorge = (水) water.