Integrity

Acting without an angle.

The situation

Straightforward action works here. Cleverness, hedging, and quiet self-dealing will backfire visibly.

What it asks of you

Do the plainly right thing. Anything else invites trouble you can't blame on luck.

Where it leads

The six lines

1. initial Nothing false in it. Go. 无妄，往吉
2. second Not ploughing for the harvest, not clearing land for the field it will become. Then there is somewhere to go. 不耕穫，不菑畬，則利有攸往
3. third Trouble that nobody earned: a tethered ox. The passer-by gets an ox; the townsman gets the trouble. 无妄之災，或繫之牛，行人之得，邑人之災
4. fourth You can hold to this. Nothing goes wrong. 可貞，无咎
5. fifth An illness nobody earned. Don't medicate it; it lifts on its own. 无妄之疾，勿藥有喜
6. top Nothing false in it — but move now and something goes wrong anyway. 无妄，行有眚，无攸利

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 111001 — 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 Reserves. 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 Turning Point and Reserves. The order is not alphabetical or random: the old commentary reads it as a chain, one situation giving rise to the next.