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

[annofowlshire]

Alternatives to Celestials - Domains? Kingdoms? Archetypes?

[ilthit]

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...)