Pagan Homeland Collaboration Wayfinder
Model Properties 🏚️
Examples that teach the work before the work gets expensive.
Model Properties are not purchase plans. They are working examples used to test PHC's process, language, screening, due diligence, stewardship questions, public-benefit logic, source boundaries, and Board-safe records. A model should make the work clearer, not more dreamy.
Current Model Examples
These examples help PHC practice seeing the whole burden: use, safety, cost, land, neighbors, records, and long-term stewardship.
Berlin WI — 242–246 E Park Ave / St. Joseph's Campus
Berlin helps PHC examine historic former church review, multi-parcel property concerns, adaptive reuse, title and ownership questions, floodplain and setback issues, ADA/access questions, fire and life-safety review, condition unknowns, stewardship planning, and Board-safe property language.
Berlin is a model and watchlist property. PHC is monitoring and evaluating Berlin. It is not approved for acquisition, negotiation, site-specific fundraising, property control, or binding action through this page.
Open Berlin Model DossierMedina Wedding Chapel
Medina helps PHC test earned revenue, rites-of-passage use, public benefit, handfasting or ceremonial use, event use, local Pagan vendor ecosystem thinking, capacity limits, stewardship questions, and accessibility questions.
Medina is a concept model. It is not approved for acquisition, negotiation, fundraising, property control, or binding action through this page.
Medina Model Notes link to a controlled Drive stub record. This preserves the correct source location while the fuller model-property note is still planned.
Open Medina Model NotesModel + Review Tools
Use these when you need the dossier, the review tools, or the property folder.
Model Property Categories
Different examples teach different lessons. Name the lesson so the record does not pretend to be more than it is.
Research Packet
A property with a developed research packet used to test deeper review categories. Berlin is the current example.
Operating Idea
A site idea used to test operating models, earned revenue logic, public benefit, or activation concepts. Medina is the current example.
Workflow Test
A property example used mainly to test forms, trackers, Board language, status labels, or workflow discipline.
Preserved Learning
A past or rejected lead used to preserve learning and prevent repeated mistakes.
Site Radar vs. Model Properties
Connected but different jobs. Mixing them makes the work muddy.
Site Radar
For possible properties that need watching, sorting, basic facts, review notes, or follow-up. Asks: what is this place, what do we know, what is missing?
- early property leads
- watchlist properties
- active or reachable sites
- properties under deeper review
- closed leads and lessons
Model Properties
Examples used to test PHC's thinking before treating any site as active. Asks: what does this teach us about use, cost, stewardship, risk, and Board-ready process?
- process-testing examples
- case studies
- language testing
- review practice
- lessons for future stewards
Plain rule: Model Properties help PHC learn. Site Radar tracks possible properties. Board records preserve formal action. Keep those lanes separate.
What Model Properties Are
A model should make PHC more honest, more prepared, and less likely to confuse longing with readiness.
Model Properties Are
- property screening practice
- due diligence category testing
- Board-safe language practice
- stewardship questions
- early-use planning
- public-benefit framing
- risk review
- Drive structure and reporting-format testing
- source-boundary practice
Model Properties Are Not
- a purchase announcement
- a fundraising campaign
- proof of Board approval
- proof of property control
- a negotiation plan
- a commitment by Deeply Rooted
- a promise that PHC will pursue the site
- a shortcut around due diligence
- a substitute for real stewardship capacity
How To Use These Models
Do not use a model to fantasize. Use it to ask better questions.
Ask Better Questions
- What stage is this property really in?
- What facts are verified?
- What facts are still assumptions?
- What would need Board review?
- What would need legal, title, zoning, or inspection review?
- What stewardship pathway would be required?
- What costs are unknown?
- What would make this a no-go?
- What language is share-safe? What must stay internal?
Build for Continuity
A model should help the next person understand the lesson without needing the original conversation.
That means source links, plain status, known risks, unknowns, and a record of why the example matters.
The point is not to sound impressive. The point is to make the work carryable.
Before a Model Moves Forward
Use this plain planning check before any example becomes a stronger record.
Plain rule: if a model cannot name the task, the record, the reviewer, and the next step, it needs more work before it travels.
How Model Property Records Move — Nornir Record Logic
The Nornir language helps PHC remember carefully. The plain language below shows what each part does.
Checked Records
For reviewed records, preserved lessons, and source-supported history after the record has been checked. For model properties, Urðr holds what we can responsibly say happened.
Working Review
For model notes while they are still being sorted, tested, corrected, and compared against source records. This is where a model can become useful without becoming overclaimed.
Follow-Up Work
Tracks questions, source checks, title pulls, zoning reviews, stewardship gaps, and Board-facing asks that may be required. Skuld is not a threat. Skuld is the bill arriving before the roof falls in.
Model-record rule: a property example may move through learning, review, and follow-up. That movement still does not create Board approval, property control, fundraising authority, negotiation authority, or commitment by Deeply Rooted.
Moon + Sky Note — Seasonal Awareness
For awareness only. Verify against a trusted local calendar before any ritual, public-facing, or Board-facing copy.
Current Moon
Current Planetary Positions
Planet signs and retrograde motion are the useful pieces here. For precise local charts, use a full astrology tool with your exact location.