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.
It's a difficult one, isn't it? I go back and forth on it. My first draft was radically open. This is, I think, part of why I'm splitting up the religion Fencraft, the correspondence system Landcraft, and the pantheon British Traditional Animism: even though it's all, bits of what I'm doing as a unified whole, I want to encourage people to take out and use the bits they like in their own way. You might like the Fencraft way-of-doing-spirituality, but not have any interest in this pantheon; you might like the pantheon, but use it as part of Wicca; you might be doing a different tradition of religion or magic, but want to use the Landcraft system instead of the original system.
I think if I presented all of it, as a single unified thing, then that would be the overall “static thing I wish to keep consistent with how it is now”, the thing I want to teach in a way that becomes generational and grows through a clear lineage. But the individual elements of it, I want those to be “shared and people make it their own”; I think when the bits are split up, they are very stealable, and it doesn't feel like a dilution of something complete. Does that make any sense?
Ultimately, it is being shared to be stolen. I envisage development being like a tree with many branches, and one of those branches will be “mine” - or maybe you could call my work the trunk, and that trunk will continue to do its own thing - but that doesn't compete with or prevent the creation of or undermine/supersede the growth of powerful branches. Maybe, ultimately, what is done on a branch will prove far stronger & more resilient than what I'm doing; perhaps I'm *not* the trunk, but the root.
I suppose (not to get ahead of myself and be egotistical), but nowadays "Gardenerian Wicca" is a *substrand* of Wicca under a larger umbrella. It's not the best, most important, most legitimate. So, you can have your cake and eat it. No matter what happens next, I think there will always be a Hap-does-Fencraft strand that people can respond to, but like Gardenerian Wicca, I don't expect it to be the ultimate "survivor".
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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.
It's a difficult one, isn't it? I go back and forth on it. My first draft was radically open. This is, I think, part of why I'm splitting up the religion Fencraft, the correspondence system Landcraft, and the pantheon British Traditional Animism: even though it's all, bits of what I'm doing as a unified whole, I want to encourage people to take out and use the bits they like in their own way. You might like the Fencraft way-of-doing-spirituality, but not have any interest in this pantheon; you might like the pantheon, but use it as part of Wicca; you might be doing a different tradition of religion or magic, but want to use the Landcraft system instead of the original system.
I think if I presented all of it, as a single unified thing, then that would be the overall “static thing I wish to keep consistent with how it is now”, the thing I want to teach in a way that becomes generational and grows through a clear lineage. But the individual elements of it, I want those to be “shared and people make it their own”; I think when the bits are split up, they are very stealable, and it doesn't feel like a dilution of something complete. Does that make any sense?
Ultimately, it is being shared to be stolen. I envisage development being like a tree with many branches, and one of those branches will be “mine” - or maybe you could call my work the trunk, and that trunk will continue to do its own thing - but that doesn't compete with or prevent the creation of or undermine/supersede the growth of powerful branches. Maybe, ultimately, what is done on a branch will prove far stronger & more resilient than what I'm doing; perhaps I'm *not* the trunk, but the root.
I suppose (not to get ahead of myself and be egotistical), but nowadays "Gardenerian Wicca" is a *substrand* of Wicca under a larger umbrella. It's not the best, most important, most legitimate. So, you can have your cake and eat it. No matter what happens next, I think there will always be a Hap-does-Fencraft strand that people can respond to, but like Gardenerian Wicca, I don't expect it to be the ultimate "survivor".