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井

№ 48 · union and gathering

The Well

The Well is a resource that nourishes many if not polluted or forgotten.

sourcenourishmentshared resource

Zhouyi Core · 周易

Ancient source, separate from translation and interpretation

450/450 Zhouyi records have product-level record adjudication; 0/450 are academic VERIFIED. Translation and interpretation may not rewrite the Chinese source.

450/450 product adjudicated · OmenHall editorial review 450/450

卦辭 · hexagram statement

井：改邑不改井，无丧无得，往来井井。汔至亦未繘井。羸其瓶，凶。

Translation · final OmenHall editorial review, not independent-human/academic verified

The Well: the settlement may be changed, but the well is not changed. No loss, no gain; people come and go to the well. Nearly reaching it, yet the well has not been drawn with the rope. If the jar is broken, misfortune.

汔至亦未繘井 and 羸其瓶 are technically difficult well-drawing language; the draft prioritizes the physical sequence and flags it.

OmenHall editorial reviewedOmenHall review: yesindependent human sign-off: notranslation VERIFIED: noreview: HIGH
Evidence / provenance
ADJUDICATEDsource VERIFIED: noWYG direct: yesKR1a0001 direct: novariants: SCRIPT_FORM, PUNCTUATION_SEGMENTATION, ORTHOGRAPHIC_GRAPH, COMMENTARY_CONTAMINATION_RISK

zhouyi-48-guaci · sha256:bc577cfb7dabf169a3e0e1c18c99cdfd029e64fe603948a8dae5f51d8a09752d

translation corpus: ICHING_ZHOUYI_EDITORIAL_TRANSLATION_CORPUS_V1_20260827 · final review: OMENHALL_FINAL_EDITORIAL_REVIEW_V1_20260828 · method: AI_ASSISTED_DIRECT_FROM_ADJUDICATED_CHINESE_20260827

Line 1 · 爻辭

初六：井泥不食，旧井无禽。

Initial Six: the well is muddy and not drunk from. At an old well there are no birds.

禽 could be birds/game; the draft follows the well-scene reading “birds.”

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Line 2 · 爻辭

九二：井谷射鲋，瓮敝漏。

Nine in the Second: in the well hollow, one shoots at small fish; the earthen jar is worn and leaks.

井谷射鲋 is notoriously difficult; this literal draft is high-priority for philological review.

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Line 3 · 爻辭

九三：井渫不食，为我心恻，可用汲，王明，并受其福。

Nine in the Third: the well is cleared but not drunk from; this makes my heart ache. It could be used for drawing. If the king is enlightened, all together receive its blessing.

井渫不食, 可用汲, 王明, and 並受其福 depend on punctuation and compact clause relations. The draft is readable but remains explicitly provisional at these joins.

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Line 4 · 爻辭

六四：井甃，无咎。

Six in the Fourth: the well is lined with masonry. No blame.

甃 is masonry/lining of a well; the technical image is retained.

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Line 5 · 爻辭

九五：井冽，寒泉食。

Nine in the Fifth: the well is clear; a cold spring is drunk.

冽 has a cross-witness graph variant; translation stays at the semantic level “clear/cold.”

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Line 6 · 爻辭

上六：井收勿幕，有孚元吉。

Top Six: the well is drawn from; do not cover it. There is trust. Great auspiciousness.

收 in this well context is difficult; the draft follows the traditional “drawn/available” sense.

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zhouyi-48-line-6 · sha256:7fbf870d1c89e6480b3ddeb4c0363b9be769d3f1c69e99a159a2eef196190292

Ten Wings · 十翼 · later commentary

Mapped commentary context

10/10 remote pinned · 0/10 local validated
彖傳下 · Tuan Commentary II象傳下 · Image Commentary II

Ten Wings: 10/10 segments have pinned remote source identity, while validated local text remains 0/10. This reading therefore exposes provenance/context mapping only and inserts no commentary text. Tuan/Xiang/Wenyan remain separate from Zhouyi Core; Xici/Shuogua/Xugua/Zagua are not presented as if they directly comment on this specific cast.

Ten Wings provenance / segmentation

registry: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_SOURCE_REGISTRY_V2_20260827

context map: ICHING_TEN_WINGS_CONTEXT_MAP_V1_20260827

Association of the Ten Wings with Confucius may be described as traditional attribution, not as an established modern historical fact.

Wikisource currently presents 彖 in one page and splits 象 as 大象/小象. Those web-page divisions are not adopted as OmenHall canonical wing boundaries. OmenHall keeps traditional 彖上/下 and 象上/下 by upper/lower hexagram canon, while 大象/小象 remain internal Xiang subtypes.

The attribution/ShareAlike engineering path is prepared for 10/10 segments, but the owner's license-path acceptance remains pending. Kanseki's published label is retained as “CC BY SA” without inventing an unstated version.

OmenHall completed its own AI-assisted editorial review of 450/450 source-bound RU/EN translations and applied 13 final corrections. This is a product editorial baseline, not independent human or academic verification: human sign-off 0/450, academic VERIFIED 0/450. Philological notes remain visible for 353/450 higher-risk passages.

Ten Wings: 10/10 remote source identities are pinned and canonical segmentation is mapped; validated local text 0/10. This is a separate later scholar/commentary layer. Until a local validated corpus exists it stays fail-closed and does not block the core Zhouyi content/logic freeze.

OmenHall modern interpretation must be labeled as modern application, never as translation or ancient commentary.

OmenHall modern interpretation · the section below is modern application. It is not a translation of the Zhouyi and it is not the Ten Wings.

Situation

The matter concerns a source of strength, knowledge, money, connection, or tradition.

Advice

Repair the bucket, clean the water, return to source, share without depletion.

Caution

A source is not infinite if used without care.

How to read lines

  • • First read The Well as the state of the question, not as a promise of an event.
  • • If there are changing lines, they show not a second prediction, but the place where the situation has begun to move.
  • • The resulting hexagram is read as the direction of transformation, not as a guaranteed outcome.

A changing line does not cancel the main hexagram. It shows the seam through which the old form is already turning into a new one.

For day and decision

Daily I Ching

On a The Well day, look for one small step that fits the rhythm of the moment. Do not turn the whole day into a hexagram test.

I Ching for decisions

For a decision, The Well asks not “what will definitely happen,” but “which action is ripe now, and which is premature.”

Reflection questions

  • • What nourishes me?
  • • Where is the bucket broken?
  • • Whom do I give water to, and who helps the well?

Small practice

  • • Write the question in one line without naming another person if it can be phrased through your own choice.
  • • Mark what is already fact, what is fear, and what is still only assumption.
  • • After the reading, choose one step for the next 24 hours, not a plan for your entire fate.

Journal

  • • Where does the theme of “The Well” appear in my situation?
  • • What fact must I accept before asking for a sign?
  • • Which step is small enough not to break the balance?

Reading boundary

I Ching in OmenHall does not diagnose, replace professionals, or guarantee the future. It is a language of timing, choice, and proportion.

The best ending for an I Ching reading is to name one fact, one risk, one step, and one time when you will return to the question without compulsive repetition.

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