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24 March 2019 18:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonOoooh having said that
The first step in took with Fencraft was defining the Sun path as distinct from the Moon path - to divide what I saw as religious nature paganism from occult witch craft. This was a kind of organisational necessity -I was trying to just get everything straight in my mind, because so much pagan stuff blurs all these things together. I found it helpful to make these things distinct, and figure out what i wanted to do and how I fit in.
There is religious pagan stuff, and then there's technical skilled stuff, and they arent necessarily interlinked.
So perhaps this is how you create a multi-layered community where everyone is Pagan, but you have elders with special skills.
I found this mapping helpful because my executive function makes actual magic and technical craft skills very, very difficult. The concept of the Sun path was a way of saying - what you are doing is legitimate and it's ok.
Sun stuff includes having a party on the sabbats, going for nice walks, baking, and just existing. Singing songs. Learning rhymes. Knitting. You don't need to be the best at circles, or even to cast them frankly, because you're directly reverencing the natural world by being in it, and the body by making use of it.
From there, I developed a broader sense of Solar and Lunar powers, but it all started with just mapping out all the possible things thst "doing witchy pagan stuff" could mean, so I could spot the ones i valued and wanted to center my craft around.
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So that's a framework that could work, I guess, to include various kinds of people within a Pagan community. It's non-hierarchical, and it recognises different ways of being within the craft. We are all Pagan, but we do have specialists. Additionally, I guess in the context of a big group, it recognises what those "other" people are doing. Someone on the Moon path might be learning the ability to banish and ward hardcore shit; but someone on the sun path might be focusing on their herbal baking, and bringing some excellent cakes for the ritual. It makes every part of the tapestry sacred. It gives some shine to the ordinary work of life. Remembering additionally that the Sun Path is defined as experience, so being the sort of person who just shows up and experiences the ritual, is part of thst calling.
Ultimately, I defined a third path to match the Stellar energies, as a kind of shamanic/ecstatic/experiential work, focused on going through and beyond.
So that's a kind of map for community, although I didn't originally intend it that way. It's a way for us to keep Paganism as a participatory faith, where everyone has direct access to the divine; but also the best of hierarchy, technical skill, and specialisms. You can imagine a coven, for example, having people who are developing on the Stellar path, whose role is drawing down and otherworld work; and also the Lunar path, whose role is having a library of occult texts, and they build the circle, and they take the lead on actual spells; and then on the Sun path, who make the robes and the flags and the objects to enchant, who bring the food, who organise the socials.
The first step in took with Fencraft was defining the Sun path as distinct from the Moon path - to divide what I saw as religious nature paganism from occult witch craft. This was a kind of organisational necessity -I was trying to just get everything straight in my mind, because so much pagan stuff blurs all these things together. I found it helpful to make these things distinct, and figure out what i wanted to do and how I fit in.
There is religious pagan stuff, and then there's technical skilled stuff, and they arent necessarily interlinked.
So perhaps this is how you create a multi-layered community where everyone is Pagan, but you have elders with special skills.
I found this mapping helpful because my executive function makes actual magic and technical craft skills very, very difficult. The concept of the Sun path was a way of saying - what you are doing is legitimate and it's ok.
Sun stuff includes having a party on the sabbats, going for nice walks, baking, and just existing. Singing songs. Learning rhymes. Knitting. You don't need to be the best at circles, or even to cast them frankly, because you're directly reverencing the natural world by being in it, and the body by making use of it.
From there, I developed a broader sense of Solar and Lunar powers, but it all started with just mapping out all the possible things thst "doing witchy pagan stuff" could mean, so I could spot the ones i valued and wanted to center my craft around.
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So that's a framework that could work, I guess, to include various kinds of people within a Pagan community. It's non-hierarchical, and it recognises different ways of being within the craft. We are all Pagan, but we do have specialists. Additionally, I guess in the context of a big group, it recognises what those "other" people are doing. Someone on the Moon path might be learning the ability to banish and ward hardcore shit; but someone on the sun path might be focusing on their herbal baking, and bringing some excellent cakes for the ritual. It makes every part of the tapestry sacred. It gives some shine to the ordinary work of life. Remembering additionally that the Sun Path is defined as experience, so being the sort of person who just shows up and experiences the ritual, is part of thst calling.
Ultimately, I defined a third path to match the Stellar energies, as a kind of shamanic/ecstatic/experiential work, focused on going through and beyond.
So that's a kind of map for community, although I didn't originally intend it that way. It's a way for us to keep Paganism as a participatory faith, where everyone has direct access to the divine; but also the best of hierarchy, technical skill, and specialisms. You can imagine a coven, for example, having people who are developing on the Stellar path, whose role is drawing down and otherworld work; and also the Lunar path, whose role is having a library of occult texts, and they build the circle, and they take the lead on actual spells; and then on the Sun path, who make the robes and the flags and the objects to enchant, who bring the food, who organise the socials.
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Date: 26 March 2019 11:24 (UTC)I just want to be excused for not wanting to make spells, really.