Overhaul

Change at the structural level.

The situation

Real change is due, not adjustment. But timing is everything — too early and no one follows.

What it asks of you

Wait for the moment people can feel, then change decisively and explain it.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial Bound tight with yellow oxhide. 鞏用黃牛之革
2. second When the day comes, then change it. Setting out then goes well. 巳日乃革之，征吉，无咎
3. third Setting out turns; holding on is dangerous. When talk of change has come round three times, then there is something in it. 征凶，貞厲。革言三就，有孚
4. fourth The regret goes. Sincerity, and the mandate is changed. 悔亡，有孚改命，吉
5. fifth The great man changes like a tiger — the markings are there before he is even consulted. 大人虎變，未占有孚
6. top The better man changes like a leopard; the small man only changes his face. Setting out now turns; stay where you are. 君子豹變，小人革面。征凶，居貞吉

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 011101 — 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 Renewal. 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 The Source and Renewal. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.