Influence

Gradual, penetrating, quiet.

The situation

Change here happens by persistent gentle pressure, not announcement. It works, but slowly.

What it asks of you

Repeat the message consistently and make sure someone owns the decision.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial Forward, back, forward. What is needed here is a soldier's steadiness. 進退，利武人之貞
2. second Penetrating under the bed. Priests and diviners brought in, a great crowd of them. Nothing goes wrong. 巽在床下，用史巫紛若，吉，无咎
3. third Penetrating over and over, frowning each time. Humiliating. 頻巽，吝
4. fourth The regret goes. Three kinds of game taken in the field. 悔亡，田獲三品
5. fifth This holds, the regret goes, nothing here does not work. No beginning to it; there is an end. Three days before the turn, three days after. 貞吉，悔亡，无不利。无初有終。先庚三日，後庚三日，吉
6. top Penetrating under the bed, and losing his money and his axe there. 巽在床下，喪其資斧，貞凶

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 110110 — 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 Rapport. 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 Transition and Rapport. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.