– living, community-written I Ching commentary, built from real reading experience
You know how, when you’re finding it hard to connect with a reading, it often helps tremendously to think back to previous occasions when you’ve received this hexagram or line? Not just for ‘what happened’, but because you have a sense of how it feels from the inside?
The I Ching Community has always been brilliant at supporting people with their readings through shared experience, both directly (‘anyone have any experience with 45.1 in relationship readings…?’) and indirectly, through the archives.
(Thank you.)
WikiWing – the experience-based I Ching book written by the I Ching Community – embodies that support, distilled and supercharged. It brings…
- shared reading experiences
- new perspectives on hexagrams and lines (essential for ‘old hands’)
- the opportunity to make a lasting contribution to Clarity’s pool of I Ching insights
- a way to become a supporter of Clarity’s free I Ching Community and resources, helping more people to get to know the I Ching.
Introducing WikiWing
WikiWing is the kind of communal undertaking that only the internet makes possible: a big community-written ‘Wing’ of Yijing commentary, built entirely out of members’ own reading experiences. It’s a Wiki with an article for each trigram (thanks, LiSe!) and hexagram, easy to reference and edit.
This all started life back in 2008, when I ‘seeded’ the Wiki with my own notes on each hexagram and line. Since then, Change Circle members have been steadily adding insights and experiences of their own, about health, relationships and creativity… and computers, cycling and dentistry… and so on. It’s growing into something special.
A quick look inside…
(This is a little awkward as the experiences people contribute are private so I can’t share them on this public web page – except one of mine – but you get the idea!)
Contents page
For each line: translation, basic commentary, experiences (I can show you this one as it’s one of mine) and useful Clarity links
(Often quite a lot of experiences…!)
“Clarity is a treasure box of useful tools, but the WikiWing is my favorite. It’s the first place I go when I do a reading. You get clear translations and commentary as well as links to blog pieces and forum ruminations on certain hexagrams and lines, which is terrific. But then for each line of each hexagram, you can also see experiences that other Clarity users have had with that line—often a half dozen experiences or more. There’s even a link on each hexagram to forum threads where users discuss their experiences with the hexagram in unchanging form. It has opened up the Yijing for me in the most remarkable way.”
Support Clarity: pay what you want
WikiWing is a subscription-based membership, and you choose your monthly payment. (The minimum subscription is £1/month – that’s about $1 or €1.)
‘Clarity’ the business is just me at my computer – researching, interpreting, writing, replying, and doing tedious techie things and paying assorted bills. And, of course, sustaining a big free forum without advertising, which any normal business advisor would tell you is a daft idea. (Happily, Yi is not a normal business advisor, and told me 42.5 instead.)
To state the excruciatingly obvious, Clarity and its I Ching Community couldn’t exist without you: it all depends on your generosity, both posting and paying.
So here is another Yi-prompted un-business decision: opening WikiWing on a ‘pay what you want’ basis. The way I see it, payment based on trust is simply a reflection of our real mutual reliance.
WikiWing is for everyone who wants to be part of it. If you can only afford £1/month – thank you for joining. If you can pay more, you’ll be helping to provide access for people who can only afford the minimum (excellent karma) – and thank you for joining.
So… if you want to support Clarity in helping more people have a clearer, more powerful relationship with Yi, then please – accept this invitation, join WikiWing, and pay what you want.
If you opt to contribute £10/month or more, I’d like to give you full access to Change Circle – including the private forums and Yijing Foundations Course as well as WikiWing. Here are all the details and a link to the sign-up form.
Clarity’s usual guarantee applies
– it boils down to,
Unless you’re happy, you get your money back.
For WikiWing, that means you can get your money back any time during your first month: you only have to ask. (And obviously you can cancel any time.)
Members’ comments…
I consider WikiWing my Possession in Great Measure!”
Also helpful for general “learning”.”
Compare membership levels…
What’s included
I Ching Community
Join the conversation!
… in the Shared Readings, Exploring Divination and Open Space forums.
- Get help with your readings and share your ideas with like-minded people.
- Full access to 25+ years of archives through the Hexagram Search
- Private messaging
WikiWing and Change Circle members also get a few useful extra features: bookmarking, private messaging with groups of people, etc…
WikiWing
Our own I Ching commentary
A community project, where WikiWing and Change Circle members contribute their reading experiences with hexagrams and lines. Over the years, this has grown into an invaluable resource of real-life experience and insight, always available to cast light on your own readings. (A lot of people say this is their favourite part of Clarity membership.)
Well Gatherings
Where we pool our ideas…
Monthly Zoom get-togethers for both WikiWing and Change Circle members, where we discuss members’ readings or explore hexagrams.
You only need to join WikiWing to come to a Gathering, but the recordings are just for Change Circle members.
Change Circle Library
The Library
Mini-courses on helpful interpretive tools, pdfs to download (including the Language of Change glossary and Exploring the Sequence), searchable archives of Well Gathering recordings, and more…
Foundations Course
The essentials for confident readings
The Foundations Course covers everything you need to interpret your own readings with confidence – trigram relationships, the primary-relating hexagram structure, dealing with multiple moving lines…
It’s also sold separately, in a self-study version, for £75, but Change Circle members can get help and feedback with the course assignments via the Yi Academy forum.
I Ching chats
Individual support with your readings
I Ching chats, available from the public website for £30, are included in Change Circle membership at no extra charge. As a member, you can book a session with me whenever you need some more help with a reading.
Private forums
Member-only private forums
The ‘Reading Circle’ and ‘Yi Academy’ forums are only available to members, not on the public internet, and members promise to keep what’s shared there confidential.
Beginners’ Course
Get started with your first readings
The complete introductory course delivered by email for convenience: what the I Ching is, how to ask it questions, how to cast a reading and engage with the oracle’s response.
Free membership at Clarity also includes some beginner-friendly ebooks to get you started, a few more for deeper dives, and the Connecting with Imagery workshop recording.
FAQ
How would I cancel?
You can cancel any time via your Clarity membership page – or directly through the payment provider you used to sign up – or just email me and I’ll cancel your subscription for you straight away. (You still have access for as long as you’ve paid for – eg if you signed up on August 9th and cancelled on the 10th, you’d have access until September 9th.)
Do I need to be experienced with the I Ching before I can join?
Nope, not in the least. You can look up your very first reading in WikiWing – and once you’ve experienced how it works out, you can contribute it, too, and help out the next person who looks up that hexagram/line!
How does this ‘pay what you want’ work? And what if I want to change the amount later?
Click through to the order page and you’ll see a box to ‘enter a fair monthly payment’. Type in ‘1’ or something more, and you’re in.
If you want to change the amount later, you can always cancel your WikiWing subscription and rejoin.
“I use WikiWing a lot, and I find it precious. I go there when my reading is not clear, sometimes when it portrays a situation in a way that is different from what I expected or wished for.
Sometimes I just enjoy the variety. I like to see how people interpret the same combinations of lines, especially if they and I are asking similar questions. Some other times I like to read what experiences people have had with the hexagrams that puzzle me most…
WikiWing is like a window overlooking a landscape where many paths may be enriching, just in a different way for different people. I feel lucky that I can benefit from so many vantage points.
In short, I believe that collective knowledge is more powerful than individual erudition, it can show you facets of reality that you had not hitherto considered.”