Attraction

Mutual influence, felt before understood.

The situation

Something is responding to something else. It works when both sides stay open rather than strategic.

What it asks of you

Empty yourself of the pitch and actually receive the other side.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial Feeling it in the big toe. 咸其拇
2. second Feeling it in the calves. Moving on that turns; staying put is fine. 咸其腓，凶，居吉
3. third Feeling it in the thighs, and holding to whatever it follows. Go like that and it humiliates. 咸其股，執其隨，往吝
4. fourth This holds and the regret goes. Thoughts going restlessly back and forth — only the friends you already think with will follow. 貞吉悔亡。憧憧往來，朋從爾思
5. fifth Feeling it in the flesh of the back, where you cannot see it. No regret. 咸其脢，无悔
6. top Feeling it only in the jaw, the cheeks, the tongue. 咸其輔頰舌

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 011100 — 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 Consistency. 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 Illumination and Consistency. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.