haptalaon | (Reply)

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I have a question about Landcraft. I love the work you're doing and I find it fascinating, but you also wrote earlier about--forgive me if I misremember or misinterpreted--how you'd like to both share it and encourage other people to make it their own AND keep it consistent with the way it is being created now.

I love a lot of your ideas but I hesitate to read much further, since I don't want to "steal" them for my own practice, and as it is, it seems Landcraft is for English people, or at least people who are in England.

How do you feel about that? I don't mean to go "hey I practice Landcraft" and then do entirely my own thing, just to incorporate, very privately, ideas like correspondences and the separation of the three parts of the system.

(This is part of my continuing waffling on how to practice while living in urban Flanders and being of urban background myself, and in another country from my birth country, when the current trend in Paganism seems to focus on the authenticity of local tradition and local magic. I'm veering towards the idea that gods make homes in people just as they might make homes in places and you carry them with you, but I may be in the minority, and it's not like that makes the problem of appropriation go away. Impostor syndrome, why yes...)