Jing: You changed the method, and nobody noticed
This page describes a situation. It gives no verdict. The number, trigrams and inner hexagram are all checkable.
Answer first (self-contained)Jing (hexagram 48, 坎 over 巽) describes this kind of situation: You changed the method, and nobody noticed. It does not predict anything and it does not decide for you. It does one thing: it makes visible which dynamic you are currently inside, so you can recognise whether you are in it. There are three ways to check. First, the situation itself: You changed the method, and nobody noticed. Second, three checkable facts below (the number, the two trigrams, and the inner hexagram). Third, the three steps at the bottom, and whether you have done any of them.
What situation this is
You knew the old way stopped working, so you changed it first. The process, the wording, the method. The people around you are still on the old way. So your new way has become extra work. You have to learn the new rules and still accommodate the old ones.
Checkable facts
- Number
- Hexagram 48 of 64
- Name
- 井 (Jing)
- Trigrams
- 坎 over 巽
- Inner hexagram
- The internal force is 睽
- Reversed
- Reversed hexagram: Shi He
- Inverted
- Inverted hexagram: Kun
- Palace
- 震 (五世)
- Book
- 下经
- Structure
- 坎上巽下
- Seasonal phase
- -
- Law attached
- 同构 (secondary: 容量)
- Position
- Previous Kun, next Ge
How it differs from the neighbours
Previous hexagram Kun (hexagram 47) describes: You are stuck, and now is not the time to talk.
Next hexagram Ge (hexagram 49) describes: You have already started, and you cannot go back.
The inner hexagram (internal force) The inner hexagram is 睽. The situation on this page is what is visible; Kui says same goal and different direction, so the well and the rope do not agree on where to go. is what has been going on inside it. They are different layers, and reading one as the other is the usual mistake.
Three steps you can take today
- Isomorphism means the same rule acting again and again. Change the rule and the isomorphism breaks.
- Write down the thing you changed, and who else has not changed it.
- How many people have to change with me for this to work?
Do just this today Today, ask one person whether they will change it with you.
Does this sound like you
- I changed the way we do this and nobody followed.
- The new rule is only one I follow.
- I am more exhausted now than before the change.
- Nobody else has changed, so I carry it alone.
How this path works, and where it breaksJing changes the town and not the well. So the next step is not another version of your own method. It is finding out whether anyone else is willing to change theirs, and if not, whether the well itself is the thing to question.
Inner hexagram: the internal forceKui says same goal and different direction, so the well and the rope do not agree on where to go.
What this hexagram does not doThis does not tell you not to change. It only says the well is the well. You can change the way you draw. One person changing does not make it a different well.
Most likely misuseThe easiest misuse is reading it as change takes patience. Jing says change the town and not the well. What can change is the method. What cannot is the position.
Sources for this page
- Original text (judgment and Tuan commentary)
- I Ching, hexagram 48
坎上巽下 - Data source
- 周易深度解析与蒸馏_v3 · 卦义表
Number, trigrams, inner hexagram, reversed, inverted, palace and seasonal phase all come from the original text and can be checked. - Who wrote the situation descriptions
- Original to this project
Situation names, signals, today's step, micro-action and the core question were written for this project. They are not from the original text and are not an authoritative reading of it.
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