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What is Landcraft?
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:
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.
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.
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.
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I support any of these approaches. Stealing things and doing them your own way; saying you practice Landcraft, but doing something that ends up quite radically different from my startpoint; taking bits you like and using them privately; practicing Landcraft as I've laid it down, with very English reference points, despite living elsewhere; practicing Landcraft as I've laid it down, but exploring your own non-English reference points and filling it with something new. I share it, because I think some of it might be helpful for others; and I don't want to put bars or limits on what kinds of useful people might find, if that makes sense. And I think a lot of the bits of Fencraft lend themselves naturally to becoming radically different in the hands of each person using it.
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