I Ching with Clarity vs Your I Ching

What is Online Clarity?

Online Clarity — its full name is I Ching with Clarity — is a UK-based site built and run by one person, Hilary Barrett. She works as an I Ching diviner and teacher.

Two community features sit alongside the free tool: the I Ching Community, a member forum, and WikiWing, a line-by-line commentary written from members’ own experience of the hexagrams and lines. The Yijing Foundations course is bundled into paid Change Circle membership.

Barrett is also the author of a book, I Ching: Walking your path, creating your future, and its material underlies the commentary shown in the free tool. Two domains point to the same operation: onlineclarity.co.uk is the current address, while the older onlineclarity.com still turns up in search results for an earlier version of the free tool and points back to the current site.

If you were looking for the hexagram sometimes translated as Clarity rather than the website, that is Hexagram 30 — Fire.

Clarity’s free I Ching reading, step by step

The free reading lives at onlineclarity.co.uk, and it needs no account at all. Here is what happens, in order.

1. You open the page and, if you want, type in a question first; the field is optional.
2. You press cast six times, once for each line, and each press adds one more line to a hexagram building from the bottom up.
3. Once all six lines are in place, the page shows the primary hexagram, using Barrett’s own translation of the hexagram and line texts.
4. Any changing lines are shown with their own text, drawn from that same translation.
5. If there are changing lines, the page also shows the relating hexagram that results from them; excerpts from Barrett’s own commentary accompany the texts shown throughout the reading.

You can save the result afterward, and no sign-up is required at any point along the way. The interpretation itself does not change with your question: the same hexagram produces the same displayed text for anyone who lands on it, and a conversation about what it might mean for your own situation happens afterward, in the community forum, rather than inside the page itself.

How a reading works on Your I Ching

A reading on Your I Ching starts the same physical way: you press cast six times yourself, once for each line, and nothing at all is generated for you until every line is in. What differs is what happens next, once the result exists.

The exact moment you finish is recorded and enters the calculation itself, using Shao Yong’s Huangji framework, which treats time as a moving set of coordinates rather than a fixed backdrop behind the cast. Once the hexagram is built, an interpretation is written by AI specifically around your own question and that particular cast, rather than a fixed passage that reads the same for anyone who happens to land on the same hexagram.

You can then keep asking follow-up questions inside that same reading, and the whole exchange is kept afterward: every reading is saved to your account as a record of that cast, at that moment, rather than something you have to write down yourself elsewhere. See what a reading includes for the full walkthrough of what is included at each step along the way.

The hexagram and line text used inside a reading are drawn from the same texts you can read for all 64 hexagrams in King Wen order on this site, independent of any single cast.

None of this amounts to a claim that the system can see the future. No one can see the future, and we do not claim a hexagram predicts outcomes; what accuracy means here is written up at what accuracy means here.

Side by side

The table below lines up both sites, dimension by dimension, using the same sourced facts as the rest of this page.

Prices at a glance

Who should use which site

Who should use Clarity

• You want a personal reading talked through by a real person rather than written by software. Hilary Barrett runs a full personal reading service by phone or video call, with follow-up calls over the following weeks and a lifetime money-back guarantee.
• You want to join a long-running community and learn from how other people read the same hexagrams. The I Ching Community forum and WikiWing gather years of member commentary, line by line, alongside a private member library and monthly gatherings.
• You want a structured course and a teacher's own written commentary built up over decades. The Yijing Foundations course, included in Change Circle membership, comes from one person's sustained practice, not a database.

Who should use Your I Ching

• You want an interpretation written around your own question rather than a fixed passage. Every reading here is generated for the exact question and cast you just made, not shared with anyone who lands on the same hexagram.
• You want to keep asking questions about the same cast until it makes sense. Follow-up questions stay inside the same reading, with no forum thread or waiting list involved.
• You want the whole thing done in a few minutes on your phone. Casting, the interpretation and saving the result all happen in one sitting, with no account required to start.

Questions people ask

Is I Ching with Clarity free?

Casting the free hexagram tool costs nothing and needs no sign-up. Beyond that, Change Circle membership starts from £10 a month, a one-to-one Chat session is £30, and a full personal reading with Hilary Barrett is £250. None of those are required just to use the free reading.

Who runs I Ching with Clarity?

Hilary Barrett — an I Ching diviner and teacher — has been the person behind the site since 2000. She wrote I Ching: Walking your path, creating your future, and that book supplies the commentary excerpts shown in the free reading.

Is onlineclarity.com the same site as onlineclarity.co.uk?

Yes. onlineclarity.com is Barrett's earlier address; an old version of her free reading is still indexed there and it points visitors through to the current site at onlineclarity.co.uk.

What is the difference between Clarity's reading and Your I Ching's?

Clarity shows Barrett's own translation and commentary excerpts — the same wording for anyone who lands on that hexagram — with any follow-up conversation happening afterward in a community forum. Your I Ching writes an interpretation around the specific question and moment you cast, and lets you keep asking up to 5 follow-ups inside that same reading.

Can I use both?

Yes — casting the same question on both sites is not a conflict; each keeps its own independent record. Cast on Clarity when you want a traditional line-by-line translation to sit with, and cast here when you want an interpretation written specifically for the question and moment you just asked.

Does Clarity offer personal readings?

Yes. A full personal reading with Hilary Barrett costs £250, or four monthly instalments of £62.50, and runs across several calls over the following month. She opens bookings three or four times a year and keeps a waiting list between openings. Your I Ching has no equivalent: every reading here is generated, not conducted by a person.

Sources

1. About — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026
2. Free I Ching reading — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026
3. I Ching Community forum — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026
4. Change Circle membership — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026
5. Online I Ching reading service — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026
6. Online I Ching readings — I Ching with Clarity — checked 7 September 2026