{"id":6088,"date":"2026-06-19T18:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:22:12","slug":"nine-knots-bless-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=6088","title":{"rendered":"Nine Knots? Bless your heart."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across a reel about a lovely Summer Solstice tradition where you tie nine knots in a ribbon on the longest day of the year. Then, whenever life gets difficult during the year, you untie one knot and release some of that stored sunlight and strength. \u2600\ufe0f\ud83e\udea2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first thought was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Nine knots? For the whole year?!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As someone with an alphabet soup collection of chronic syndromes, I would need less of a ribbon and more of an industrial macram\u00e9 installation. \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc9c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots-819x1024.png\" alt=\"AI generated whimsical cartoon-style illustration of a silver-haired woman reading a Summer Solstice spell book in a cozy study. The open book describes a tradition of tying nine knots for difficult days. Behind her is a pegboard covered with large ropes labeled POTS, Hashimoto's, hEDS, MCAS, and ME\/CFS, with many smaller labels representing additional sensitivities and everyday challenges. A thought bubble reads, &quot;Nine knots? For the WHOLE YEAR? Bless their naive hearts.&quot; The scene humorously reflects life with an alphabet soup collection of chronic illnesses.\" class=\"wp-image-6089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a reel about a lovely Summer Solstice tradition where you tie nine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/9Knots.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6090,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}