The Empress is the person (or people) in our lives whose creativity and warmth made us want to learn to knit.
We watched her in an unstructured environment, just doing her thing, and we learned as much as we might have in a class. We may not know how she came to be a knitter, or why she chooses the patterns she does, or for whom she makes all those socks; but she is prolific, downright surrounded by her knitting, and her needles are always flying.
The Empress is a “doer”; and in the Knitting Tarot, knitting is what the Empress was born to do. She is entirely natural in her abilities and at ease with every step of the process, seeming to enjoy seaming and Kitchener stitch as much as she does going to the yarn shop to choose yarn and notions for a new sweater.
When you see the Empress in a reading, remember that we do not knit so that we may wear, or present, or parade our knitting in front of others. We knit because we love the texture of the yarn in our hands, and the colors and patterns, and the rhythm of our needles. These grassroots pleasures, found moment to moment in the act of creation, give the Empress in each of us our greatest reward.