Working with Andromalius: a bath before work on theft, wickedness, and underhand dealing

Andromalius, and the purpose of this bath

Andromalius is an Earl in the Goetia, and the Grimoire Companion entry for him ties his work to justice, treasure, and protection: he brings back the thief with the stolen goods, and discovers all wickedness and underhand dealing. That is the field this bath belongs to, and it is worth naming before you step into the water, because a bath for work with Andromalius is not a general soak for any purpose you can think of. It is preparation for a particular kind of work, and preparation works best when the purpose is stated plainly.

That is a sharp field, and it needs a clear statement before you begin. What was taken, or what dealing do you believe was underhand, and what would count, for you, as a just outcome? Write it in one sentence, with names and facts where you have them, and guesses marked as guesses. A bath gives you three quiet days to separate what you know from what you fear, and that separation is itself part of the work. If you cannot state the matter 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 before work that touches strong feelings, because work done in the heat of a moment 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 workings lose first, when they get thought about in fragments, between other tasks, fuelled by the last message or the last encounter, and never given a full, quiet hearing.

If you do pour everything in, including the bits of herbs, just use either a strainer to get the chunks out after your bath, or one of those fish tank nets, or a bird catching net. It is best to take each bath each day for 3 days in a row. 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 your attention can turn to the matter itself. On the third, you can look back over the three days and ask, honestly, what has changed in your understanding of the matter.

Preparing the bath, and preparing yourself

We only use 100% pure roots, herbs and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. That is the making of the bath itself, and it matters because a bath made for this work, by hand, from plant material, is a different thing from a scented product chosen for its label. When you prepare it, do so with the purpose in mind, not as a chore to get through before the real work starts. The preparation is part of the working.

Prepare the space as well as the water. Clear the room you will use afterwards, set aside the time so that you are not rushing into another task straight from the bath, and have something to write with nearby for the notes you will make when you are dry and dressed. A bath that ends in a scramble for a towel, a phone, and a deadline has lost half its value. A bath that ends in quiet, with time to sit and write, keeps it.

What to notice, and what not to force

During the three days, notice three things, and do not force a fourth. Notice what you think about when you are in the water, without steering it. Notice what you dream, if you dream, and write it down without interpreting it on the spot. Notice what changes in your feeling about the matter between the first day and the third. Those three observations, kept honestly, are worth more than any dramatic sensation in a single bath, because they show movement over time, and movement over time is what a practice is for.

Do not try to force a vision, a message, or a feeling in the bath. Forcing produces exactly what you already expect, dressed up as a result, and it leaves you no wiser than you were before you stepped in. If a bath is quiet, let it be quiet, and write that down too. Quiet is information. It may mean the purpose was unclear, the timing was wrong, or the matter needs a different kind of action altogether, and knowing that is a result in itself.

After the three days, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for the whole three days: the date of each bath, the purpose in one sentence, what you noticed in and after each bath, and what you decided afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the third night. Bath work, like other spirit work, is read over time. A record lets you see whether the situation is actually moving, or whether you are simply reliving the same thought with new details.

Do not repeat the same three days endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise, and a bath repeated as noise is only a bath.

Andromalius Goetia bath

A bath is preparation for work with Andromalius, 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 Andromalius. 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: Andromalius Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product

I also make the incense to go with it, for the same work: Andromalius Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product

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