Book of Symbols
A collection of paintings depicting the cosmology of Landcraft. All of them are true, even when they differ. There may never be a final symbol, but all of these contain something. Newer ones are more considered than early ones. Between them, you should easily grasp the main idea.
They seem disempowered by all appearing on the same page. Individually on paper, they are extremely striking. Try reproducing one you are drawn to in the medium of your choice for your meditative space. They're all maps of a sort; try travelling around them.
As far as I can tell, you're not really supposed to stand in the center of these - as tempting as it might be. Instead, the Solar is always centered on you, and the Stellar is far away. In terms of 'directions', we are oriented towards the physical landscape - where is the lake, the sea, the woodland - rather than the abstraction of a compass (although intuitively, the Solarish is warm in the south and the Stellarish is the dark and frozen north. The Lunar is associated with change, and so is both east and west, both spring and autumn). But it gets fuzzier when elements come into the picture - I have, and will continue, to try elements-around-you because of the shape that rooms are. And how does this change as you enter into the Stellar, as we all are wont to do? Does the experience of energy always remain a column, or does it become a column-and, or some entirely third thing? There's nothing like experimentation.
What seems to be really key is, never to forget that this represents the cosmos - not man. What is man is Solar and perhaps a little Lunar. There's a tendency for pagan models to become oriented around the human because your own life is easiest to influence, a practice turning inwards. And for sure, we can do this with these symbols, attributing each to parts of the body, self or experience. But really, those correspondences are a way through to that other thing, not an end in themselves. These symbols are a map to the hidden sanctury of the elves, or a channel for the infinite in the darkness, a kind of key. It depicts routes to working with the spirits, or explains how to mediate between the spirits and man - our place in a wider net work.
So avoid the human temptation to turn this into a kind of sorting hat ('am I more earth or air? Do i have a Stellar zodiac position?') for, while I'm sure it can be done, it takes you further from its purpose: speaking to the hills.
