Beauty is half in the face and half in the seeing, and this jar tends the half most spells forget. Sealed in the dark of the moon, it sweetens how the world’s eyes come to settle on you.
You are not asking to be other than you are. You are asking to be met with the warmth a beloved thing is met with — that the gaze which finds you turns kind, and lingering, and glad.
The Working
- On the night of no moon, write your name on a slip of paper and lay it in the belly of a small clean jar.
- Cover it with wildflower honey, pouring slow so the name is wholly drowned in gold.
- Add a rose petal, a curl of orange peel, and three grains of salt for the tears you will not have to weep.
- Anoint the rim with a drop of oil and seal the lid tight, turning it thrice toward yourself.
- Hold the jar against your heart and speak the incantation into its cool glass.
- Keep it in a dark drawer, and once each week give it a slow turn to keep the sweetness moving.
The Incantation
Honey, hold my name and keep it,
sweet the eye that seeks and greets it.
Let the gaze that finds me linger,
soft as gold on lip and finger.
As this jar is sealed and sweet,
fair be I to all I meet.
Turn it faithfully, and you will notice a warmth in the rooms you enter, a kindness in the looking that was not there before.