The image of Water over Wind and Wood
After exhaustion one needs to be replenished.
This might be for emotional, physical or spiritual renewal.
You can change where you live but you can’t change your true essence.
When we go to the inexhaustible well of our own nature we have the ability
to keep refreshed in any situation we may encounter.
Pay attention to your dreams that come from the deep
while the conscious mind sleeps. Honor their truth to guide you.
If a connection to your true self is broken or unused you will not be able
to access the clarity that is contained within you.
A well is created for use by the community.
All humans contain within them the same basic characteristics.
Connect with others who share your values.
Six in the first place
The well is neglected with undrinkable water.
If you wallow in the muck and sludge of your life
no one will want to be with you.
When your ideas are old and stagnant you will fester in your past.
Think about what you can do now that will refresh you.
Six in the first place changes to hexagram 5.
Paintings and Prescriptions hexagram 5.
Nine in the second place
At the well-hole one shoots fishes. The jug is broken and leaks.
Wilhelm/Baynes
When you neglect your talents they will be unused and wasted.
Cultivate your neglected skills that might be enjoyed and shared.
Nine in the second place changes to hexagram 39.
Paintings and Prescriptions hexagram 39.
Nine in the third place
You are ignored and frozen out of the culture where you belong.
It is sad when you have blessings to share and no one seems to notice or care.
Things will change when your environment becomes warmer.
Nine in the third place changes to hexagram 29.
Paintings and prescriptions hexagram 29.
Six in the fourth place
The Well is being repaired.
Get your life in order. You can’t help others until you help yourself.
You may not be conscious of what needs to be repaired in your life.
Go deep inside by meditating or listen to your dreams
to help find what needs to be restored.
Eventually people will be drawn to you for the qualities you develop.
Six in the fourth place changes to hexagram 28.
Paintings and prescriptions hexagram 28.
Nine in the fifth place
In the well there is a clear, cold spring from which one can drink.
Wilhelm/Baynes
Help others by sharing what you have learned
while delving into the well spring of your source of inspiration.
Nine in the fifth place changes to hexagram 46.
Paintings and prescriptions hexagram 46.
Six in the last place
With a spirit that shares with all you are nourished and enriched
by this inexhaustible well of give and take.
Six in the last place changes to hexagram 57.
Paintings and prescriptions hexagram 57.
[…] Hexagram 48 • The Well • Ching […]
You got through Hex 47! This image for 48 first line is another beauty.
Sounds like you may have been in a bit of a rush – Me – I am getting into horse racing – The Gee Gees – That is realy rather fascinating – and one can use the Yi to predict the winner – by using the Chinese hours for the moving line – and the number of letters in the name of the race – to determine the hexagram – That correlates with the name of the horse – Raceching ! – Also the Chinese directions – to find the winning stable – I must admit – this is all a bit beyond me – and so – I have my Kindle loaded up with Horse Racing – systems – and also – was desperate to get hold of a insider tipping service put together by an Arab horse breeder who had to flee the country – I Ching – should I subscribe to this – will it work ??? – # 59 changing to # 20 – Well – all my credit cards were refused – and my bank refused paypal – So – I guess – thats something to contemplate
We-ll
We – will do this
The collective – shared – Be well !
I-ll
I will do this all by myself
Quite selfish – all mine – Feel ill !
Jing and Kun – The Paradigm –
As Steven Karcher may say
Yup – Chinese word #
means – hash
Emergency room quality !
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WHAAAAT! Horse racing sounds like fun.
Best bit so far – getting a bee in my bonnet about a horse – a French horse – and dashed down the bookies – just in time – to scribble the name on the slip – shove it at the counter girl – and watch the race – just starting – my horse – WINNING – only a fiver win – NOTHING – Though – to beat that feeling – and so Ive converted my flat into a betting shop – multi computer screens – live races – Betfair – and as many bookies as I want – only 50p stakes though – till I know what Im doing
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Very beautiful –
dunno how you come up with it
I got Jing today – 4th line
changing – so I am staying in bed
The problem with the I Ching
that is – if you abuse it – like me
it becomes – all – encompassing
one consults it – lives by it
as an alternative – to anything else
friends family career job
one ends up – in a total I Ching
reality
No matter where you are
what you do – The same – spiritual –
entities – or souls – or – Ancestors
show up in different roles – or – guises
And one may as well be living in a dream – or
Bardo state – as Steven Karcher calls it
Most unedifying – how can one – go out to work
if ones living in a dream – Like arriving at the
gates of Heaven – with St Peter giving you a broom
and telling you to sweep the floor
and take the rubbish out
Just phone in and say – ones not well
and stay in bed
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I so enjoyed your post. We could have a good conversation about this if I were there.
Amazing that you got hex 48 today. Good syhchro. About living in a dream, so what! Tarthan Tulku said in a lecture at Nyigngma Institute I went to eons ago in Berkeley said that there was no difference between dreams and so called reality. He advised us to think of our dreams as “real” and “reality” as a dream. Jung once dreamed that someone was dreaming him and that when he work up Jung would be gone.
I also talk to the I Ching every day. I find it amazingly accurate. Hey it’s free so why not indulge.
I had a terrible accident fall on Saturday that took me to the emergency room at the hospital – still feeling like shit but here. Never mind details. The morning I Ching throw that day was #59 changing to #36. Little did I think that would throw me into such darkness later in the day. I still hurt all over.
Note: Does the word “well” have other meanings in Chinese besides the meaning of water coming from the ground in a deep hole? In English the word also can be:
• a verb: welling up with tears
• an adverb: doing well, working well, well worth the price, knowing someone well
• in interjection: “well well!”
• Adjective: Being well off or healthy ”I’m well”