Hexagram 48 · line 2
The Well
井Jǐng
Water escapes through the well's hollow toward small fish. The earthen jar is worn and leaking.
Line statement
九二
井谷射鮒，甕敝漏。
Water escapes through the well's hollow toward small fish. The earthen jar is worn and leaking.
Water fails to reach its intended users, while the jar cannot hold what is drawn. Changing Line 2 makes Mountain below Water, Hexagram 39. The two figures offer different images of obstructed access.
Computed position
How this place works
- Trigram position
- inner · center
Line 2 is the center of the inner trigram.
- Polarity and place
- yang in an even place: not aligned
Its yang polarity does not match the traditional even-place convention.
- Correspondence
- Line 5: same polarity
Its counterpart is Line 5; the two share a polarity, so this structural correspondence is not responsive.
One line changes