What is Landcraft?

[haptalaon]

I am ready to launch the first stage of the Landcraft correspondence system, which organises all things in terms of the Solar, the Lunar and the Stellar.

The purpose of the Landcraft correspondence system is to be an alternative to the four classical elements, the gender binary, and the Tree of Life, an underlying system of magic for people who do not wish to use the standard correspondence systems for various reasons;  a system of correspondences which, additionally, feels earthy and pagan, organic and authentic to the land and the folklore beneath our feet. It is an open system: you may combine it with any other pagan tradition, not only Fencraft; as well as re-mixing and hacking it for your own purposes.

Now available:

• An overview chart of the correspondence system, summarising its binaries and contrasts
• The Wanderer's Map, the way that the three celestials* come together to make a map of our world, our cosmology, our folklore and the otherworlds
• A summary of what each of the three represents: the Solar, the Lunar, and the Stellar.

I hate the term "celestial", hate it hate it hate it, and very much welcome other suggestions.

These parts of the system have been fixed and certain for around two years now. The next step for Landcrafting is to release the fuller correspondence charts (colours and so forth), pin down how the dual-celestials work (concepts like the Solar-Lunar, the inbetween elements), and how they interact with physical elements (like Fire, Land, Water, and so forth). And then finally - the big bit that's still missing - how you actually *use* them in ritual and magic, which is still eluding me.

I've also written a first masterpost of Rural Psychogeography, works exploring the hidden mysteries of the land. I am now obsessed with Chanctonbury Rings.

Mood? A deep, relaxed, mellow breathing-out of satisfaction, completeness and success.

Comments

[haptalaon]

OK, so my final comment is:

thank you for your comment, and I wanted to take it seriously in my reply & give you a good answer. it's a huge wall of text, so don't feel you need to respond to any/all of it, or just pick up on bits that interest you.

And thank you too for taking an interest. It's hard to do something as narcissistic as Set Up Your Own Religion without feeling like a prat, and so any kind of feedback where someone says..."this started me thinking in new ways about my practice" is, I suppose like the feedback that any creator craves, it keeps you going. So thank you. I'm getting a wadge of work done, like, every two weeks when my own impostor syndrome wears off, but a lot of the time what's bringing me back to the task is being able to imagine that there's some kind of an audience.

[annofowlshire]

Thank you for developing it and making it available—I’ve found it really exciting to find something that aligns so closely with my disorganized practices in a way that not only can I start to work with more methodology and intention than flailing about, but also have to people and a language to talk about it.