Dispersal

Things scattering apart.

The situation

Cohesion is dissolving — attention, a group, a plan. It scatters unless something re-gathers it.

What it asks of you

Give people a shared reason to reconvene. Sincerity gathers; pressure doesn't.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial A strong horse to carry it out. This goes well. 用拯馬壯，吉
2. second In the scattering, he runs to what holds him up. The regret goes. 渙奔其机，悔亡
3. third Scattering the self. No regret. 渙其躬，无悔
4. fourth Scattering his own faction. As good as it gets. Scattering piles it into a hill — not a thing ordinary people think of. 渙其群，元吉。渙有丘，匪夷所思
5. fifth The great cry going out like sweat, and it cannot be called back. Scattering what the king has stored. Nothing goes wrong. 渙汗其大號，渙王居，无咎
6. top Scattering the blood of it. Get away, get far off. Nothing goes wrong. 渙其血，去逖出，无咎

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 110010 — 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 Limits. 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 Rapport and Limits. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.