Here is the moment when the work you have been doing is no longer just a series of stitches; here is the moment when the pattern emerges, seemingly effortlessly, and fabric is created. Stable, beautiful, fully integrated, the World heralds a period (or moment) of fulfillment and actualization, but not a passive one: we are active in the creation of this World. In the process of giving to others, we build something for ourselves. (Notice our knitter in the World card does not need to parade around festooned in garments of her own making to “be” the knitter that she is; it comes from the inside of her, and shines right out to her skin!)
Do not mistake the good feeling the World gives us as being applicable only to the completion of a knitting project. Pas de tout! That is, in part, what is so special about the World; that the feeling it represents, of such bounty and satisfaction, can be present in any day, at any stage of a project, in our own, real World. Perhaps it is a moment of realizing that yarn in your stash, which you have been saving for years, is exactly what you need for an upcoming project. Or that the perfect buttons, for which you have searched high and low, appear to you almost magically, attached to an old coat that has been sitting unnoticed in the Lost and Found box at your office for the last eight months. Or maybe it is the look on the face of a friend as she models her new hat-and-scarf set. The World gives to us, and we give back to the World, and neither and both of these is the payoff. The trick is in knowing that we don’t do it for the payoff.
But that doesn’t mean that we don’t recognize when it’s time to be thankful. That thankful, lucky feeling -- and wanting to spread it around (once our own golden, snuggly haze wears off) -- indeed makes us part of the World.