Working with Amon: reconciliation, love, and true answers about past and to come

Amon, and three petitions that should not be blurred

In the Grimoire Companion entry, Amon is a Marquis whose work is tied to reconciliation, love, and divination: he reconciles friends and foes, stirs love, and reveals what is past and to come. Those three points are often wanted at the same time, in the same tangled situation, and that is exactly why they should be separated before any working begins.

Reconciliation is about a relationship that has broken or cooled, and about whether it can become workable again. Love, as a petition, is about affection and desire between people, and it needs its own plain statement: who, in what kind of relationship, and what you are actually asking for. Revealing what is past and to come is about knowledge: what happened, and what is coming, so a decision can be made with clearer eyes. A single working that tries to ask for all three at once, without saying which matters most, is not a stronger working. It is three workings wearing one coat.

Reconciliation first: friends and foes

Amon reconciles friends and foes, and both halves of that phrase matter. Friends are people whose goodwill you already have, or once had, and reconciliation with a friend is usually about repair: something said, something left unsaid, a distance that grew without anyone deciding on it. Foes are a different matter. Reconciliation with a foe is not the same as winning against them, and it is not the same as pretending the disagreement never happened. It is a working toward a relationship that can function again, even if it never becomes warm.

Before you work, name the person and the relationship in one sentence, and name what workable would look like in ordinary terms. Would it mean speaking again? Working together without sabotage? A household that is calm enough to live in? If workable only means that the other person admits they were wrong, say that to yourself plainly, because that is a different petition, and it should not be dressed up as reconciliation.

Love, stated plainly, and knowledge about past and to come

When love is the petition, be specific about what you mean by it, in your own words, before you light anything. Love can mean affection that already exists and needs tending, a new affection you hope will grow, or a desire that has not yet been spoken. Those are different workings, with different consequences for the people involved, and a general article cannot choose among them for you. State the petition as it actually is, and leave out any wording that makes it sound like something else.

The divination side of Amon work is equally in need of plain questions. Revealing what is past and to come is only useful if you have a question worth answering. What happened, in this matter, that you still do not understand? What is coming that you need to prepare for, rather than merely worry about? Write the question down before the working, and write the answer down afterwards, separately from your hopes about it. A divination answer that is only remembered as a feeling afterwards is hard to test against what actually happens next.

Why incense, and how fumigation works here

Incense fills a room. That is its particular quality, and it is why incense suits work about relationships and knowledge that involve more than one person. A bath covers you. Oil marks a person or a tool. Incense fills the space where a working happens, and it is breathed by everyone in that space, in the ordinary sense that scent fills a room. For work about reconciliation, that room-filling quality is apt: the working is not only about your own feelings, but about a shared space between people, and the incense marks that space as set apart for the working.

Fumigation is also a way of working with a seal or a tool: passing it through the smoke, so the tool and the working share the same prepared air. If your practice calls for fumigating a seal for Amon, do it in the order your system teaches, and do not improvise a method from a general article. The incense is the material for the working; the method belongs to the system you work in.

Preparing, and what to watch afterwards

Preparation is most of the work. Before you begin, write the matter down in one clear sentence: what you are asking, and what you are prepared to do yourself in ordinary terms. If you cannot state it plainly, you are not yet ready to begin, and that pause is part of the work, not a delay in it. Clear the space you will use, set it aside for this purpose, and prepare yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: wash, change into clothes set aside for the work, and set out what you need before you start, so you are not hunting for tools halfway through.

After a working, keep a short record: the question as you wrote it, the answer as you received it, and what happened next in ordinary terms. With reconciliation work, the record is especially useful, because relationships change slowly, and a slow change is easy to miss if you only remember the feeling of the working itself. Note the first ordinary sign of change, however small: a message answered, a conversation that stayed calm, a decision made without the old flare-up. Those small signs are the record, and they are worth more than a dramatic retelling afterwards.

Amon work is specific work

Amon work rewards specificity, because its three offices pull in different directions if they are left vague. Reconciliation asks for a workable relationship. Love asks for affection stated plainly. Divination asks for a question that can actually be answered. Hold those apart, choose the one that matters now, and let the other two wait for their own working. That discipline is not a limitation on the work. It is what makes the work readable afterwards, when you look back and ask whether anything actually changed, and whether that change was the one you asked for.

Questions worth asking, and questions worth leaving alone

Not every question about a relationship is a good divination question, and Amon work benefits from sorting them before the working. A good question has a decision behind it: shall I speak to this person, shall I wait, shall I change an arrangement, shall I accept that a relationship has run its course? A question with no decision behind it is usually curiosity, or worry looking for reassurance, and it will produce an answer that is hard to act on, however interesting it feels. Leave those questions alone until a decision actually hangs on them. Reconciliation questions also benefit from a time frame. Are you asking about the past, about what can be repaired now, or about what is coming if nothing changes? Those are three different questions, and asking them as one will blur the answer. Ask them separately, in separate workings if needed, and keep the answers separate in the record, so a true answer about the past is not mistaken for a promise about the future.

Amon Goetia demon incense

Incense is not background scent for this work. It is part of the working itself.

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