Knotted Rose, Knotted Gold is a beauty knot spell: a small braided charm you plait across the waxing nights to gather your allure into three strands and a handful of knots. What is braided is bound, and what is bound can be carried — three threads for the three graces of a face, the softness, the brightness, and the warmth, knotted and kept as a bloom you tie into being and take wherever you go.
Correspondences for This Spell
- Colours: pink and green (Venusian), and rose
- Herbs: rose and myrtle (sacred to Aphrodite), with lavender
- Crystal: rose quartz and jade
- Day: Friday
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Water
- Moon: waxing moon, to attract and increase
For more on why these pairings work together, see the correspondences guide.
What You Will Need
- Three lengths of thread: one rose-red, one gold, and one the colour of your own hair
- A little rose oil, or a rose-infused carrier oil, for anointing each strand
- Dried rose petals, with a pinch of myrtle or lavender if you have it
- A small bell to seal the finished cord with a single clear tone
- Optional: a rose quartz or jade bead to thread onto the braid
The Best Time to Cast
Begin on the first night of the waxing moon and work a little more each evening as it fills. A waxing moon draws things toward you and makes them grow, so a charm braided while the light increases carries that same rising quality — your bloom brightening as the moon does. If you can, start on a Friday, the day of Venus, whose pink-and-green influence rules beauty, love, and gentle allure. Tie the final knot on the night before the full moon, at the very peak of the waxing.
The Working
- On the first waxing night, choose three threads: one rose-red, one gold, one the color of your own hair.
- Draw each through a little rose oil, end to end, naming softness, brightness, and warmth as you go.
- Knot them together at the top and begin to braid, working a little more each night as the moon grows.
- At every knot along the way, press a fingertip of dried rose petal into the twist and speak a line of the charm.
- Tie the final knot on the night before the full moon and ring a bell once over the finished cord.
- Wear it at the wrist or keep it in a pocket, and touch it whenever you wish the bloom to answer.
The Incantation
Three the strands and three the graces,
soft and bright and warm the faces.
Knot the rose and knot the gold,
bind the bloom this braid will hold.
As the moon climbs, so climbs my charm —
tied and kept and come to no harm.
Variations & Substitutions
- No rose oil? A rose-infused olive or jojoba oil works just as well, or dilute a single drop of true rose essential oil in a carrier. Myrtle or lavender oil will serve the same Venusian purpose.
- If red and gold thread are hard to find, embroidery floss in rose-pink and metallic gold braids beautifully, and any soft green thread stands in for the Venusian green.
- No bell? Ring a wine glass with a wet fingertip, or simply clap once over the cord — what matters is one clear tone to seal the work.
A Word on Intent
An it harm none, do what ye will. A beauty spell like this is not about reshaping your face to please someone else, nor about working on another person without their knowing — it is for meeting your own reflection with kindness and letting your softness, brightness, and warmth show. Braid it to feel at home in your own skin, and the charm harms none, least of all you. The verse itself ends “tied and kept and come to no harm,” and that is the whole of it.
Related Beauty Spells
Renew it at each waxing moon, and the little cord will keep your bloom tied fast and ready to your hand. Find more workings like it in the Grimoire, and keep your own records in your Book of Shadows.