Animated spirits.

As I have said before I have found some animals that seem to watch over me and I have made one for each of the elements, earth, water, fire and air. I thought with the completion of the Arctic Fox I was done but I have decided to also do a red fox, two foxes but they have very different energy for me. I have always love the red fox but when deciding on which one seemed dominant for me,I took the Arctic fox because it was more playful and curious. The red fox is often portrayed as sly or crafty and I wasn’t sure I wanted to encourage that kind of fire energy. And yet, I have got a red fox head traced on a beautiful piece of hand dyed fabric that looks to me like a forest and it is ready to start using the same lovely silk yarn I got from my brother.

I was thinking about the spirits and another guiding,principle popped into my head, and it may be correct. As well as standing for the elements and how I,perceive them, these spirits also align with the other personalities in my family. One each for my daughters and the two foxes will then represent me and my husband. I’ve always known we had fiery ,hmm,” discussions”, that we are often on the same side but come at problems from different angles. And that fits with the two foxes, for apparently though the two foxes often are in the same habitat, they often spar so once again this fits nicely together. Something that I’m not sure the two different foxes do that we certainly do is share the alternate sides of an event. So a good match if a little volatile.

Can’t wait to start stitching but I think it will be slower to complete than the Arctic Fox.