Knitting Tarot Discussion
Sam thinks we should have more pictures, and I agree, but we'll have them tomorrow.
Today, let's play catch up with the Knitting Tarot, which has been speeding ahead while I was lollygagging around, doing, I gather, Not Much. Except that part about working, as I mentioned earlier. In case anybody asks.
I believe I've got one more court card at the moment, the Princess of Spindles: Ah. The recipient of knitting who's after my own heart (earth and fire, that's what I understand best) -- make it useful. Now, clearly, this is NOT the person to make the sequined scarves for. Unless this person is, at the moment, crafting some dramatic monologue during which she can actually USE sequins. Otherwise, they're a waste of time, and they're a waste of space. But. If you actually go to the trouble to figure out what the princess NEEDS, she'll use it, and she'll use it till it falls apart. I love that. I don't like it when people abuse my knitting, don't get me wrong -- but I do like it when, after I've spent a lot of time and trouble on some knitting, it gets used, and it gets used well, and lives its little knitted life to the full, until it's dead, stone dead, and I have to knit something else. (Sam! Time to get that llama-wool cardigan out of storage!) (Around here, Sam's the recipient of Useful Knitting. I know I've hit it when I see it a LOT.)
Reversed? Secretly, your princess would really like something she doesn't need, but which is absolutely stunning.
And two more court cards -- VIII, "Untangling," is the equivalent of "Strength." The project takes time, intelligence, and patience. I enjoy Amber pointing out that, even after that, it still might not work out ok. Alas. But if it's going to work out at all, it's going to require time, intelligence, and patience. Sometimes a LOT of time. Well, and a LOT of patience. And, occasionally, more intelligence than I have at my disposal. Nevertheless, the project is, apparently, worth working on unless it's:
Reversed? Throw it out. It's never going to work. Move on.
And -- ta-da! -- IX, "The Hermit." Which is standing in for "The Hermit." But there you are -- at the deep center of knitting, no matter how many buddies you've got, or how many groups you're in, or how often you're teaching classes, or even how many projects are on the needles, there's some time spent on knitting activities that don't show up directly. Amber writes of it as "thinking, mulling, studying." Sometimes it's sitting with The Principles of Knitting, practicing new techniques. Sometimes it's playing with yarn for a while, seeing what it will do. My favorite is when it's sitting in my knitting library, looking at LOTS of patterns, all day, and then putting all the books back without actually starting anything new. Time spent like that manifests itself later.
And I DON'T reverse the Hermit. As far as I'm concerned, reversed Hermit does not mean "get out more." It means "people need to leave you alone," or, more to the point, "put the phone down and pretend you're gone."
Today, let's play catch up with the Knitting Tarot, which has been speeding ahead while I was lollygagging around, doing, I gather, Not Much. Except that part about working, as I mentioned earlier. In case anybody asks.
I believe I've got one more court card at the moment, the Princess of Spindles: Ah. The recipient of knitting who's after my own heart (earth and fire, that's what I understand best) -- make it useful. Now, clearly, this is NOT the person to make the sequined scarves for. Unless this person is, at the moment, crafting some dramatic monologue during which she can actually USE sequins. Otherwise, they're a waste of time, and they're a waste of space. But. If you actually go to the trouble to figure out what the princess NEEDS, she'll use it, and she'll use it till it falls apart. I love that. I don't like it when people abuse my knitting, don't get me wrong -- but I do like it when, after I've spent a lot of time and trouble on some knitting, it gets used, and it gets used well, and lives its little knitted life to the full, until it's dead, stone dead, and I have to knit something else. (Sam! Time to get that llama-wool cardigan out of storage!) (Around here, Sam's the recipient of Useful Knitting. I know I've hit it when I see it a LOT.)
Reversed? Secretly, your princess would really like something she doesn't need, but which is absolutely stunning.
And two more court cards -- VIII, "Untangling," is the equivalent of "Strength." The project takes time, intelligence, and patience. I enjoy Amber pointing out that, even after that, it still might not work out ok. Alas. But if it's going to work out at all, it's going to require time, intelligence, and patience. Sometimes a LOT of time. Well, and a LOT of patience. And, occasionally, more intelligence than I have at my disposal. Nevertheless, the project is, apparently, worth working on unless it's:
Reversed? Throw it out. It's never going to work. Move on.
And -- ta-da! -- IX, "The Hermit." Which is standing in for "The Hermit." But there you are -- at the deep center of knitting, no matter how many buddies you've got, or how many groups you're in, or how often you're teaching classes, or even how many projects are on the needles, there's some time spent on knitting activities that don't show up directly. Amber writes of it as "thinking, mulling, studying." Sometimes it's sitting with The Principles of Knitting, practicing new techniques. Sometimes it's playing with yarn for a while, seeing what it will do. My favorite is when it's sitting in my knitting library, looking at LOTS of patterns, all day, and then putting all the books back without actually starting anything new. Time spent like that manifests itself later.
And I DON'T reverse the Hermit. As far as I'm concerned, reversed Hermit does not mean "get out more." It means "people need to leave you alone," or, more to the point, "put the phone down and pretend you're gone."
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