Changelog

New

• The Fencraft weekly study moot is now going to have a topic planned in advance, and notes for these will be listed at Topics. Over time, this will also turn into a kind of index and List of Reading Lists

Updates

• I've been hit by pretty serious fatigue around making a great mix for Radio Astercote every week - it takes about three days of sitting at the computer - so going forward the weekly show will be chosen by sortilege unless I am feeling moved

New

• A big update! The website now hosts an interactive planner - for tracking your walking, spirit work, outdoorsiness and more. Your records never leave your computer - they are stored in your browser - allowing you to update on the go from your phone. Then, to archive them, download as a webpage which can be viewed from your browser. A good planning routine makes the difference between work which is done and work left neglected; while good records help keep track of what you know and have achieved. Caution! Keep a secondary backup of any notes in the short term - a new program may have unexpected bugs!
• The beginnings of a new study course - Living Fencraft - connecting together all the little bits on this site into a personalised Pagan journey. Only one section written so far - an introduction to Landmarks
• As part of this update, a new tome of mysteries has been revealed: a spellbook for Fencraft.
• Another journey - this time to the cage-clock of the City.
• New image galleries for the Fisher, Woodland's Edge, and the Bog

Updated

• Tidied up the Links page, removing a whole section of links to fun places that wasn't really relevant to the theme of the site, updating the webgarden, and tidying the webrings section.
• The daily dashboard now links to the Planner, as well as to a daily space weather report
• Uploaded some missing images from the Radio Astercote Index
• A handful of new images across the gallery. Some of the older galleries are definitely in need of a prune.
• The Radio Astercote Index and the main index will now display a radio player whenever the show is on the air. Thanks to KP Radio for making this possible.

New

• At very, very long last, there is a section on the ☉☽ actually on this website. For a few years, people have been pointed at an essay written such a long time ago it was well in need of a refresher. I have had a miserable time of assembling this, but I am content with it. Two more to go!
• A summary of places created by the interaction between ☉☽
• Each year as the nights draw in, I keep La Longue Veille on or around 23rd of December, a night for finishing your spinning and telling ghost tales in the dark.
• After a brief break and breakdown, Radio Astercote is back for the season with wintertide mixtapes and a ghost story for Christmas
• Put on your cthonic wellies and take an alchemical journey to the Bog
• A new collection of Questions Nobody Is Asking, collecting short essays on what this is all about

Updated

• The image collection now has runes to sort them into order: ᛈ for Domains, T for a time, ᚩ for Spirits, and ᛠ for Journeys
• Added an explanation on the Practice home page explaining what each of the tools do.
• Improved some of the janky CSS for the Fensymbols and removed Google fonts.
• The fonts directory now has copy-and-paste unicode symbols, marked up for accessibility, so I can quickly use them elsewhere on the site. Thanks to the community at 32bit Cafe for this idea.
• Some additional meditations on Deep Time

New

• A ritual script for the Funeral of the King, developed collaboratively by the community
• Audio-books, spoken word albums, and radio plays - in the Listening Library
• A list of exercises, practices, contemplations and books for encountering Deep Time
• With nary a hint of a wink, a monograph of advice on tools for Fencraft
• Choose Your Focus guides advancing Fencrafters towards different goals for their work - from priesthood, to witch-craft, to time travel.
• A (lightly updated from the Wordpress) Welcome page, describing what we do in showing quotes, sounds and images

Updated

• Some hotfixes for First Pages, adding better structure and a bit more information.
• Edited one of the Fen in Five bullet points that wasn't clearly explained.

Announcement

Radio Astercote is now live once a week at KP Radio - and available download after airing at the show page.

The show goes out at approximately 6pm London/12pm PST on Sunday, but is often a little late as time flows differently in Astercote.

~ & ~

The Fencraft community are trialing a weekly community meetup on Discord around or after the same time as the broadcast. It's informal and small - a bit of a book/film club, sharing thoughts from walks and asking questions.

New

• An addition to the Get Started section: First Pages, directing newcomers to the most important explanations of what we do.
• I'm miserable attempting to do ~social media promotion~ so I've made a collection of POSTERS and FLYERS. Even though it is traditional for Pagans to avoid proselytising, I am an avid collector of religious pamphlets from other backgrounds and I've always been tickled by the idea of writing my own. Available in a range of sizes, in printer-friendly B&W, and tongue only slightly in cheek. See also: the leaflet from the First Church of the Fen at Magpie, the Community Shop.
• I have replaced my paintbox, and there are four new Fensymbols: a Compass, the Red Ring, a Landspectrum and a Skyspectrum
• Radio Astercote now has a logo

Updates

• The Basic Practices course has been reorganised, tidied up behind the veil, and lightly edited.

New

• The Morning Paper will now show accurate sun times if you set your location (at the bottom right of the page where it says 'location'). This data is stored in localStorage, never leaves your browser, and can be deleted at any time - by clicking 'hide' on the page, or by deleting localStorage through your browser settings.
• A simple set of practice prompt cards, sorted by energy level, because I tend to forget what my options are

Updated

• Changelog got a code brush-up
• The Library has a new landing page & set of subpages. The previous one was unwelcoming to navigate and overwhelming.
• My Regular Tasks page has a new background & is linked for easy reference

New

• A template for Cloister Day - keeping a regular day aside for magic and ritual
• A new mixtape: Fendance, collecting the best of the beats for moving your body to from RA's folk/prog/hauntology collection - just in time for May.
• A page collecting the Radio Astercote Presents... mixtapes
• Prayer & ritual selections for the Changeling, drawn from the Commonplace book
• A new meditation - the Meditation of Farseeing - connecting where you are to the Infinite.
• An Index of all pages - 109 at time of writing - that are essaylike and substantial. If you are lost, seek things here.
• A mixtape for the Changeling in time for May: doomed village maidens, fairies in the forest, folklore and rock flute
• A page on Forest Fellows - the aspects of those who are to be met with in the woods
• An album of Forest Fellows to accompany it
• A page of Spirit Quickies - powers without a page of their own I want to note down in public.

Updated

• A new landing page for information on the Powers, and some tidying up on the list of spirits index
• The Dashboard now recommends some essays from the website each day.

Fixes

• Slowly rolling out a 'last updated' feature on each page, starting with newer pages (adding them to old pages will, of course, update the page and no longer indicate its age).
• A lot of re-organisation behind the scenes, looking at the half-written bits, putting things in the right folders, renaming things and so-forth.

Added

• A journey for the Keeper: a visit to Magpie - inspired by and hosted at Marigold Town.

Updated

• The Dashboard now links to the oracle, plus I've fixed an error with the Calendar, & the moon should display better on mobile
• The Radio Times now displays correctly on mobile

Fixes

• The calendar widget (viewable on the Dashboard and the Calendar pages) will now report to the console if an event in the dataset is set to occur in a single year only, instead of every year (an accident easy to make through Fantasy Calendar, where I originally made the data)
• It also logs conditional events - events reliant on other events, moon phases, solstices and so on - which my code can't currently represent.

Added

• Advanced advice on Walking - now you are spending all this time out of doors, what are you supposed to do there?
• Another destination - the Hillside - a place to scramble away from the Village, see it in full, but see also fardistant horizons and places unimagined.
• And the Fields - to be idle at your work and go about daydreaming

Updated

• The Commonplace Book now shuffles its quote order, so multiple quotes from a single source are less clumped, and there is no weighting between earlier or later sources.
• I have finished Winters in the World by Eleanor Parker, an overview of Anglo Saxon poetry through the year, and updated the Commonplace and the Calendar
• The Radio Astercote Album List and Tagged Songs List have been updated.
• The Journeys Index is now ordered from Sun to Sanctuary
• Updated images in Solar, Hillside, Fields, Lightbringer
• The home pages now display a different wallpaper at night-time; the background color (displayed when an image is not available) has been changed to a more attractive harvest gold
• Links to other parts of the site on the Basic Practices page are now correct
• The Picturebook landing page has received the new layout update, and some word tweaks.
• Landscape pages now reveal their background images in full

Added

• A new place to explore - the Sanctuary, the meeting of air and water under the moon. Among other things, travellers stopping at the Sanctuary may seek wisdom from the oracle.

Updated

• The Commonplace Book - a collection of Landweird fragments drawn from book, film and popular culture - has been updated. There are a handful of new selections, plus a new more minimalist and 'calm' reader-friendly design.
• The daily dashboard now displays a random picture. Because of how lychee processes and saves images, at this time I have no way to put credit under an image - I don't understand enough about where it stores this information. Credit information can (often, but not always) be located by looking through the lychee album
• The calendar widget should now show the festival correctly if today is a festival day.