Working with Andras: a bath before work with a spirit called against enemies
Andras, and the purpose of this bath
The Grimoire Companion notes put it in similar terms, describing Andras as a Marquis who sows discord and strife, traditionally called against enemies. That is a blunt description, and it is worth sitting with before you do anything else, because taking care of an enemy does not mean the same thing in every situation. Sometimes it means protection. Sometimes it means a boundary being held. Sometimes it means a situation ending, cleanly, instead of dragging on. Be specific with yourself about which one you mean, because vague work tends to produce vague results, and vague results are hard to read afterwards.
A bath for work with Andras is not a general cleansing bath for any purpose you can think of. It is preparation for a particular kind of work, where the matter is an enemy, an opposition, or a conflict that has not been settled by ordinary means. If you cannot state the situation in one clear sentence, you are not ready to step into the water yet. Write it down. Leave it overnight. Come back and see if it still reads true. That pause is part of the work, not a delay in it, and it is especially important here, because work done in the heat of anger often reads, afterwards, as something you wish you had phrased differently.
Why a bath, and why three days
A bath works differently from oil or incense, because it works on the whole body at once. You step into the water, you stay in it, and for that time you are not doing anything else. There is no phone in the bath, no errand half-finished, no conversation running in another room. That enforced pause is useful before work that depends on steadiness, because steadiness is the thing most conflicts lose first. They get thought about in fragments, between other tasks, fuelled by the last message or the last encounter, and they never get a full, quiet hearing.
That rhythm matters more than any single bath on its own. One bath can be a pleasant soak. Three days in a row becomes a practice, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, and with time in between to notice what has shifted. On the first day, you are mostly settling into the practice. On the second, you know what to expect from the water and the preparation, and you can pay more attention to the matter itself. On the third, you have a small record of two days to compare against, and you are less likely to mistake a passing mood for a decision.
Preparing the bath itself
The bath is made from only pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics used. Sorting out the practical details before the first bath, rather than during it, is part of the preparation, not a distraction from it.
Decide how you will strain, where the strained material will go, and how you will clean the bath afterwards, so the end of the bath is calm rather than a scramble with wet herbs. Lay out a towel and clean clothes beforehand, clear the bathroom of the things that pull your attention, and give yourself time after the bath that is not already booked for something else. If you climb straight out of the water into a rushed evening, you lose the quiet that the bath was meant to create.
What to do in the water
Once you are in the bath, there is not a great deal to do, and that is the point. Do not turn the bath into a second working with a long script, a set of tools balanced on the edge of the tub, and a petition repeated until it loses its shape. Bring the matter, in its one-sentence form, and let it sit with you. Ask yourself, plainly, what kind of taking care you mean: protection, a boundary, an ending, or something else you can name honestly. If words come, let them come. If they do not, that is also information. A matter that produces only heat for three days is telling you something about how ready you are to act on it calmly, or about whether it is the right working at all.
It helps to separate two kinds of listening. One is listening for what to do next, in the sense of a clear step that feels steady. The other is listening to yourself: noticing where you soften the matter, where you harden it, where you change it into an easier matter halfway through. That second kind of listening is often the more useful one for conflicts, because conflicts are usually tangled up with what we are willing to admit about our own part in them. A bath will not untangle that for you, but quiet water and three unhurried days give you a better chance of noticing the tangle.
After the bath: ordinary-world work still counts
A bath prepares you for the working, and for the ordinary steps that go with it. If the situation is a legal matter, a safety matter, or a medical matter, deal with that matter in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual preparation is not a substitute for a lawyer, a doctor, or for leaving a dangerous situation. If you are unsure whether a working is appropriate, wait, ask a teacher you trust, or choose a simpler protective practice first and see how that sits. That caution is not a lack of commitment to the work. It is part of doing the work properly, because a working that ignores the ordinary world tends to be a working that avoids the real decision.
It is also worth asking, honestly, whether the enemy in the situation is a person, a habit, a pattern, or a set of circumstances. The answer changes the working, and it changes what you should be preparing for and why. A working aimed at a person when the real problem is a pattern you keep repeating will not do the work you actually need done. Use the three days to test that question, in your notes, before you go further. Write the answer down each evening, and see whether it stays the same across all three days, or whether it shifts as you get quieter.
Oil and incense to go with the bath
A bath, an oil, and an incense do different jobs in a working, and they are often used together in Goetia work. The bath prepares the person. The oil marks and anoints, and it stays on the skin or on a tool while you work. The incense fills the space itself, and is present for the whole working, not just at the moment you apply it. If you are doing a full working with Andras, rather than a bath on its own, use the bath first, over its three days, and then anoint and light incense for the working itself, with the same clear purpose in mind, rather than a new purpose invented on the night.
The Andras oil offered here is made in the same way as the other oils on this site: from only pure essential oils, roots and herbs, with no synthetics and no fillers, sometimes with the odd gemstone thrown in, in a 1/2 oz bottle, about twice as large as those little health food store essential oil bottles, unless otherwise stated. The Andras incense is hand made in small batches when you order, unless a batch has just recently been made, and is of a quality used for spirit work, work for clients, and personal spellwork. Use them together only if your practice calls for it, and keep the purpose the same across all three forms.
Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for each of the three days: date, the matter in one sentence, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over the days that follow, not just on the night itself. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the matter was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or simply that the situation needs a different approach. Do not repeat the same three-day round endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second round, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise.
No result is promised here, in terms of magical result, and that is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items. What the bath offers is preparation: plant material, made by hand, for three days of quiet, steady work before a working with Andras, so that when you do act, you act from a clear statement of the matter, not from the heat of the moment.
Andras bath, and Andras oil and incense to go with it
A bath is preparation for work with Andras, not a shortcut around thinking about the matter clearly.
I make this bath myself from pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics, for a magick bath for work with Andras. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.
If you want the bath for that work, this is the one I offer: Andras Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product
I also make the oil and the incense to go with it, for the same work: Andras Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, 1/2 oz bottle, and Andras Goetia incense, $44 CAD.
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