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Hexagram 48 / 64 · Practice

Hexagram 48The Well

Care for the source, not just the supply.

/ Jing
UPPER: WATER
LOWER: WIND

A modern reflection

A way to look at this moment.

A dependable resource benefits people only if it can be reached and maintained. Consider the knowledge, places, relationships, or systems you repeatedly draw on. Caring for those sources helps make their value available beyond a single moment of need.

Sit with this question

What reliable source of support needs maintenance?

One small practice.

Contribute something to a resource or relationship you often rely on.

The image & the structure.

This hexagram places water above wind. The lower trigram evokes gentle influence; the upper trigram evokes depth and passage. Consider these as images to explore rather than instructions to follow.

The six lines are read from the bottom upward. A solid line is yang; a broken line is yin. In a coin reading, some lines may change and form a relating hexagram. A hexagram on its own does not specify which lines are changing.

Learn about changing lines →
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