Lamentation and Woe!

[lwood]

Dagnabbit, I was chugging along quite well on Eunny Jang's Print o'the Wave Stole in the ever-popular Sea Silk yarn as a gift for erynn999 with a shout-out to Manannan MacLir...

...and I realised I'd used the wrong cast-on.

So it all has to come out, lest there be an unsightly ridge at one end, and really, that just won't do.

On the bright side, it means it'll be that much longer before I have to buy the second skein. Nova Scotia colorway, friends and neighbors, which wobbles through many greens, teals, and surfaces to peacock blue. Yum!

-- Lorrie

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[ivy]

[laughs!] The GI tract is hilarious, but I would utterly not be able to use it as a devotional piece with a straight face. (Even though probably everyone could use a deity of well-functioning intestines...)

Most of the way that I relate to my deities is through doing their work, with the occasional overshadowing-embodiment. So my impending NoLA cleanup effort is vocational and devotional (Morrigan, Who is *pissed off* at that whole situation IME), my permaculture and gardening efforts and volunteer work and Save-the-Bay garbage pickup are sweated prayers (Danú), and my forest ecology volunteering is tending to Her creatures (Flidais). My altars tend to have 8,547 tree parts (fallen leaves, bark, acorns or seeds, interesting wooden bits) and relatively little that's human-made on them. I think I mostly get the feral flavor of Celtic deity, rather than the more domestic-friendly versions, and that influences how I relate to Them. (Then again, I think a lot of that is probably just me... I know other people that work with the same deity and have equally valid but very different relationships with Them.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Most of the way that I relate to my deities is through doing their work, with the occasional overshadowing-embodiment.

*waves at all the communication and agitprop filling her LJ*

I think I have some idea what you're talking about.

I just also knit--in quiet moments.

Hm. The Morrigan, eh?

Well, obviously you need one of these:



*grin*

-- Lorrie

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I meant THESE:

[ivy]

*waves at all the communication and agitprop filling her LJ*
I think I have some idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we bat for the same team, as it were. [grin]

The eyeballs are hilarious! I don't think they'd fit my relationship with Her, as She seems to be (at least to me) even more of a minimalist than I am, though. Despite Her being my primary Goddess, I don't have a single item that she seems to really cotton to. I have a few pictures that remind me of Her up, and one that I consider a pretty reasonable portrait, but I get the feeling from Her that those are more for my benefit and that She doesn't really care much whether I have anything of the sort or not. My altars are a lot heavier on leaves/bark/stones/local-land-spirit-gifts than they are for my deities, strangely. (Though given my relationship with Danú, there's a fair amount of bleedover between big-giant-Her and local land spirits that operate in a Celt-friendly context. So, arguably, the assorted plant parts evoke Her as well.)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I don't think they'd fit my relationship with Her, as She seems to be (at least to me) even more of a minimalist than I am, though.

*laugh* I kinda figured.

But I wanted an excuse to say, "LOOK! Crocheted eyeballs! Aren't they the cutest?"

I get the feeling from Her that those are more for my benefit and that She doesn't really care much whether I have anything of the sort or not.

This is my understanding from Odin, as well.

So if I even have an altar, it's minimal: there is a broad-brimmed black hat hanging in the corner. It has a nine-strand cord, tied into a noose, serving as a hatband.

Then dpaxson comes over and says, "But why don't you ahve more of an altar?"

I blink, "What do you do with an altar once you have one?"

"Er. Contemplate it?"

"Um. I have really good visualization gear in my head--that doesn't need dusting, can't be knocked over by cats, and has all the detail I want."

Now, that's Odin. There's another Person in my life who likes rather a few more tchotchkes, thanks, and by setting up her altar, I came to realize that it made some of my mental background processes a little more content and purry.

So I finally broke down and bought one of OberOtterTim Zell's Odin statues...'cos it sure is purty...

Then I have to proof it versus cats.

*eyes cats*

Everything connects to...everything. If I feel Odin in every errant breeze, every breath, what does a collection of intentional objects do for me?

Hm, maybe I should make this a post to encourage discussion; this comment thread, by LJ terms, is quite stale.

-- LOrrie