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Bubbling with excitement

4/26/2018

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  Well Mercury, the planet that rules communication (and possibly the success of some knitting projects?) has been direct for a bit now and is almost out of it's shadow period (the area of the sky that it went thru while it was retrograde). There are several other intense planetary aspects that are also driving the energy to move forward with our dreams! Namely, Venus entering into Gemini, Chiron entering Aries, Uranus getting close to entering Taurus. And Mars conjuncting Pluto. I'm feeling it!! Lately I have been very energized on some of my prize projects, especially those that relate to knitting. 
  Random inspiration for me often comes from the internet. Prime example, I was googling to look up stats of what the demographics of knitters are these days. I didn't find that piece of info, but I did find this really interesting article about neural-network generated knitting patterns. It actually reminds me a lot of the program I am writing that takes your astrology chart and generates a knitting pattern from it. I managed to make a little more progress on the program, even though I have already knitted a scarf from it. But the article talks about the adjustments the knitters had to make to how they interpreted the patterns in order to make them fit into an actual, knittable row. And that's exactly what I had to do with the pattern my program produced! Even though I'm working to make the pattern better and the program smart enough to edit how many extra stitches to fill in given how many stitches a particular row instruction has, once it is ready for people to actually knit, they will probably still have to do this "adjusting".  I actually consider that part of the "experience" of knitting your chart. You have to integrate the disparate parts of yourself, just like you have to adjust a pattern to fit the row, and fit together with the last row.
  I'm actually rather excited by the idea of having my own knit-along. You give me your birth info so I can generate your astrology chart, I plug that into my program and generate you your pattern. You pick a yarn you like and knit the scarf and if you complete it, I will give you a free 30-min astrology reading about your chart! If you think this is something you might be interested in, please leave me a comment or send me an email! I'll probably create a form to generate more response once I have it totally ready. 
​   But that's not all that I'm really excited about lately. I've been teaching private lessons, classes and conducting knitting "help half hours." Aside from all the goodness I get from helping people learn to knit, it is also producing a lot of good information that is going to fuel my next big project.... I'm not willing to give any more details just yet, but I think it's going to be pretty cool ;) 
   All in all I am feeling really great lately - I think when you align with what the universe wants you to do in life, it produces this positive flow of good feelings, and that's when you know you are in the right place. The harder side is figuring out how to cut out all the things that AREN'T producing those kinds of feelings. But it's a worthwhile battle, success really does spell HAPPINESS. And what else are we in pursuit of in life? 
   
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Time for Re-flection

4/4/2018

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  Despite the intense Mercury Retrograde energy (which is also squaring Saturn today! Ugh!), I've still managed to make some progress.... but it has been slow and painstaking! Between interruptions and technology issues, it can really be a struggle to accomplish things! But I bring this up not to complain, but rather to emphasize how knowing about the daily Transits helps my life. Now I have something to attribute the challenges to! Instead of just feeling ulta-sloggish and wondering why or what is wrong with me, I can instead trudge thru in spite of it, but have patience that is absolutely required to still produce.. something!! 
  [Side note about personal transits: Looking at how the daily sky affects your own chart is even more powerful! And it has helped me through some very troubling times. "Oh! Mars square Moon, that's why I'm feeling so angry!" for example. So woo! Being ruled by Mercury (Virgo rising) makes this time while that planet is in retrograde motion always particularly interesting for me.]
   But don't you love when you are driving in the car and listening to music and the song's lyrics seem to speak directly to you? And you sing along and everything feels aligned with the universe? The synchronicities are always hints, even on sloggish days like today, that you are on the right path, in the right place, doing the right things. Those synchronicities really seem to energize me!
   And then there are the little adjustments. In times like we live in now, we have to find ways to make ourselves more and more flexible. I don't know about you (though feel free to let me know in comments below!) but I have come to realize a lot of things I used to believe about myself, that aren't not true, but aren't what I thought them to be previously! Turns out I get emotionally attached to things, despite considering myself to be flexible and adaptable to change! 
  I've been going through this period of deep self-review. Feels like more so recently, perhaps even triggered by this retrograde motion! But it for sure has been intense. And I've felt confused at times. But you just keep moving forward, digging deeper and exploring.  Then suddenly something clicks! The weight lifts, and you realize that you have changed in some small way that has had a big impact.
   It's amazing what just small adjustments will do too. Things that feel scary and huge, but you end up making a small adjustment and that was all that was needed. Knitting translation: Tinking is not just something you do to fix mistakes, it's actually part of knitting life, and sometimes you have to  go back in order to move forward. :)

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