The Team

Order begins at home.

The situation

The internal unit — family, team, core group — is where this is decided. External moves rest on that.

What it asks of you

Fix roles inside first. Say what you mean and be consistent.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial Rules in the house from the beginning. The regret goes. 閑有家，悔亡
2. second Nothing to be won out there; the work is in the middle of the house, at the food. This holds. 无攸遂，在中饋，貞吉
3. third Harsh voices in the house — regret, danger, and it comes right. Giggling wife and children — it ends humiliating. 家人嗃嗃，悔厲吉。婦子嘻嘻，終吝
4. fourth Making the household rich. 富家，大吉
5. fifth The king comes to his own house. Nothing to worry about. 王假有家，勿恤，吉
6. top Sincerity, and still commanding respect. It ends well. 有孚威如，終吉

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 110101 — 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 Divergence. 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 Concealment and Divergence. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.