What is Landcraft?
2 June 2020 19:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonI 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.
no subject
Date: 6 June 2020 14:16 (UTC)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".