Agnesse says:
“The Great Dark One is eternally spinning the tapestry of creation, which is also the weave of fate. We are all within it, as are the forces that shape the weave. You know already that on-lays can be cast with the proper mind-states and symbolism, and the power of the Divine.
No symbol could be more powerful, especially for green gowns, than the spinning wheel and the spinning-threads. By weaving what it is we desire, we can help shape the powers around us to make it so.
By taking the threads, and knotting them to capture the invoked power, we can effectively do the same. This art is deep, and powerful, especially in the hands of a woman.
The color of the thread so used is important, symbolically. A White thread is used for erotic workings, for inspiring the mind to beauty, for the celebration of beginnings, for the renewal of the old, and for growth and increase. The Red thread is used for workings of protection nature or for increasing the vitality of the ill, or for great power. It is also for the health and fertility of the womb and conception. The black thread is used for cursing, binding, and utter, final destruction, and sweeping change.
These are the sacred colors of the Old Dame, once thought to be as Three Sisters.
You may know how to draw a compass. One may do the Nine-Knots charm within a compass to good effect. But here, in Three Sisters Wood, we have a special case…Before the Three Sisters, the three standing stones that grace these hallowed woods, the presence of Annis is so powerful that it is naturally more hallowed than any Compass ‘Round. And the power there lends itself to workings of a feminine nature, such as the twisting of the threads to affect fate.
Plaiting all three colors together into one cord gives the total power of the mother to the working. Thus a potent charm to protect women in childbirth can be made, and one to alot a good fate to the child.
Agnesse takes out a thin black cord, and shows you. “To make a working that would bind an enemy from speaking ill of you, you would need to rouse the emotion to power the work, and give your mind direction and aspire to your purpose accomplished. The symbol is here, the cord. Under the eyes of the Great Mother, In this case the hungering Crone Cat-Annis, you would tie nine knots in the black cord, keeping your desires and intentions firmly in mind, and yanking each knot tight as you say:
By knot of one, it is begun
By knot of two, power come through
By knot of three, so must it be
By knot of four, the power will store
By knot of five, the power’s alive
By knot of six, the power to fix
By knot of seven, the power to heaven
By knot of eight, ties up the fate
By knot of nine, what’s done is mine.
Allow the serpent power into the cord strongly before you do the working, thus empowering it. This should be done as the lightning flash. The knots hold the power bound with your intentions.
A way of binding this person more effectively would be to catch a piece of their hair in the final knot, thus binding the power to theirs directly. This kind of working is called “ligature”, or a binding in sympathy with their power.
If you can hide the knots in their home or on their property, do so. If not, keep them hidden. They must not be untied. They must not rot in the ground, either, for this would be disastrous. If your knots are for your own personal use, keep them looped around you, whether wrist or neck, or ankle, till their purpose be done.”