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Yarrow 综卦 source note · 2026-07-17
Compare Hexagram 47 Kun (Oppression) and Hexagram 48 Jing (The Well) as a zong gua inverse pair: reversed line order changes viewing direction without forecasting a transition.
KUN signifies Oppression: yet there is progress and success. For the great man, firm and virtuous, there is good fortune; he incurs no blame. In times of distress, words spoken may not find belief. The Tuan says: In Oppression, the strong is veiled by the weak.
The hexagram Kun teaches that hardship and poverty do not bring all things to a dead end, but rather offer people an opportunity to test their will.
The Well. The town may be changed, but the well cannot be changed. It neither decreases nor increases. Men come and go and draw from the well. If the rope does not reach all the way down, or if the jug is broken before it is drawn up, there is misfortune.
A well is constituted as a well by what lies beneath; yet a well is able to nourish the people only by what lies above. Hence the Xiang says, "Above the wood there is water.
The local structured corpus records Hexagram 47's 综卦 (zong gua, inverse) as Hexagram 48, and Hexagram 48's inverse as Hexagram 47. In the corpus's stored six-line sequence, 110010 becomes 010011 when the order is reversed. Turning the figure end for end changes line positions while preserving each line's yin or yang polarity.
Draw 110010 and 010011 in two columns, reverse the first sequence, and verify the match. Then copy one concrete phrase from the reference layer for Kun and one from Jing; name one observable condition supporting each lens, choose one reversible check, and write what evidence would make you review the choice.
A zong gua pair is not a before-and-after promise. Kun does not automatically become Jing; reversed structure neither ranks the two figures nor says which one must follow.
The reference layers and the zong-gua relationship come from Yarrow's bundled structured Zhouyi corpus. The English wording is an editorial explanation of that stored relation. This note is not a fresh cast, a forecast, or a claim that one hexagram must turn into the other.