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Hello Melting Pot
What a great question to ask.
Quite a lot of water knocking about in your reading.
I get the impression from the Yijings response that you have had some differences with your friend?
Here is a slightly different way of looking at your reading:
Yes, a well is where people come to drink the water. It is life sustaining. So your relationship is that for him. (You asked what effect, not what were you to him?)
The Nuclear Hexagram, or Core Theme, is Hx. 38 Diverging. A turning away from... so for the Well to be good there needs to be a 'turning away from' or, divergence from that which does not further it.
Now, how to deal with those three lines: I sometimes look at the lines as being options - e.g. if I do this then that will be where it leads. Here you might consider these as being components of your role in the relationship.
In this light:
Line 3 - Sometimes the Well is turbid and the relationship does not sustain you both. --> Hx.63 Already Crossing - You are already fixing this.
Line 5 - Sometimes the Well is full of cool clear water and it is good for the relationship. --> Hx.46 Ascending - A new seed growing in the earth -
Line 6 - And sometimes the Well is so damned good it lifts the spirits for both of you. --> Hx. 57 Subtle Penetration. Coming to understand the issues.
Now, I think that sometimes we get changing lines in order to produce the resulting hexagram we need. Heresy! But worth bearing in mind if some of the lines don't resonate too much.
Hexagram 4: I find the hexagram name 'Youthful Folly' to be pretty dubious at times. It can also be translated as 'unseen beginnings' and 'enveloping' (As in protecting the new or inexperienced). Youthful Folly is the mistakes of the inexperienced. Look at where it is in the hexagram sequence: First the two great powers (Hx's 1 & 2) who bring forth Hx.3 Sprouting the results of their coupling and then Hx.4 - Not so much youthful folly, but a new born, or beginning, lacking experience. Note the upper trigram Mountain and the lower trigram water. It is a spring coming out of the mountain or even giving birth, the waters breaking.
So here one might imagine a new start where it beholds one to take care and recognise that new lessons have to be learned. Where things that don't work are identified and jettisoned as the relationship re-forms or changes.
Does that resonate at all?
Wishing you well.
Clarity,
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London.
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