Following

Adapting to what's actually happening.

The situation

Circumstances lead here, not your plan. Following well is a skill, not a surrender.

What it asks of you

Choose carefully what you follow. Then follow it properly.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial The office changes hands. Go out of doors to make the connection. 官有渝，貞吉。出門交有功
2. second Hold on to the boy and you lose the man. 係小子，失丈夫
3. third Hold on to the man and you lose the boy. Following, you get what you were after — now stay where you are. 係丈夫，失小子。隨有求得，利居貞
4. fourth Following, you take something. Keep it and it turns. Sincerity on the road, out in the open — where is the fault then? 隨有獲，貞凶。有孚在道，以明，何咎
5. fifth Sincerity toward what is good in it. 孚于嘉，吉
6. top Held fast, then bound as well. The king makes his offering on the western mountain. 拘係之，乃從維之，王用亨于西山

The line texts are the oldest layer of the book. They are pictures, not instructions, and they are meant to be held against your own situation rather than decoded.

How this one is built

Written out as six lines, bottom to top, this pattern is 011001 — a solid line is 1, a broken line is 0. Every relationship above is arithmetic on those six digits, not interpretation: reverse the order and you get the other side, flip every digit and you get the opposite reading, take the middle four and you get what sits underneath. Anyone can check the result, which is what separates a structure from a fortune.

The sequence is built the same way. The sixty-four are arranged in thirty-two pairs, and turned upside down it becomes Repair. The rule holds for all thirty-two pairs without exception — twenty-eight joined by reversal, four by inversion.

In the received order it sits between Opportunity and Repair. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.