Carrying Asmoday's seal: a cast pendant for study and craft

Why a seal, and why this seal

A seal is not a picture of a spirit. It is the spirit's mark, the sign by which the spirit is called and recognised in the grimoire tradition. Working with a seal means working with a specific being, for a specific purpose, not with spirit work in general. Asmoday's seal belongs to a King whose offices are precise: arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and handicrafts, answering all questions, and discovering treasures. If those are not your matters, this is not your seal, and that honesty is part of doing the work properly.

A cast seal differs from a drawn one in a way that matters for daily practice. A drawn seal lives in the ritual room, on paper, and it is made for one working. A cast seal is solid, made to be handled, carried, and kept. It can sit on your desk while you study, hang at your chest while you work, and be taken up again for the next working without being remade. That continuity is the point. Asmoday's subjects are not one-night matters. Arithmetic, geometry, and a craft are learned over months, and a seal you carry through those months carries the association of all that work with it.

The seals offered here are lost-wax cast seals of the daemons of the various grimoires. They are pure metal, actually cast, starting with a wax version, which is much higher quality than the three-dimensional printed versions, using metal powder and plastic, that are found around the internet. It can be handled daily without falling apart, and it can be anointed, fumigated, and put under a candle without the worry that it will warp or melt.

Asmoday's ground: number, measure, and making

Arithmetic, astronomy, and geometry are disciplines of order. Arithmetic counts truly. Astronomy places things in the heavens truly. Geometry measures truly. Handicrafts are the same order made with the hands. Asmoday's work sits at the meeting point of knowing and making, and that is a rarer combination than it sounds. Many practitioners are strong on one side and weak on the other: they can reason beautifully and make nothing, or they can make beautifully and not explain what they have made.

If you are studying a craft, building a tool, working out a design, or trying to understand a pattern that keeps eluding you, that is his ground. Bring the work itself into the working, not just a wish about the work. Lay out the drawing, the calculation, or the piece you are stuck on, and let the question be about that specific difficulty. A seal worn while you study is a reminder of that specificity. It does not do the studying for you, and it should not be treated as if it does. It marks the time as set apart for study, and it marks you, to yourself, as someone doing the work.

Discovery is the other half of his office, and it pairs naturally with study. A treasure, in the old grimoire sense, is not always gold in the ground. It can be a document, a tool, a piece of knowledge that unlocks the rest, or a lost item. Before any working for discovery, write down what you are looking for, plainly, and what you will do with it when it is found. That second part is often skipped, and it is often the part that clarifies whether the search is real.

Working with a seal: holding, anointing, carrying, wearing

There are several plain ways to work with a cast seal, and they are worth naming separately, because each does a different job. Holding the seal during a working gives your hands something to anchor on while your attention is elsewhere. It is a small, physical focus, and for long workings that focus matters more than people expect. Put the seal under a candle when you want the working to have a steady, visible centre through the night, on a safe, heat-proof surface, with the candle watched, never left unattended.

Putting oil on the seal is another recognised use: anointing it deliberately, with a clear purpose in mind, before the working, or as part of it. If you use oil on the seal, use a small amount, and let it sit before you handle the seal again. Fumigating the seal, passing it through incense smoke with the purpose in mind, is a companion practice: it starts a working, and it prepares a tool for later use. Do that deliberately too, passing the item through the smoke with the purpose in mind, rather than waving it through quickly and putting it away.

Carrying the seal, and wearing it as a pendant, are the uses that set a cast seal apart from a paper one. A pendant worn daily keeps the working present in ordinary life: at the bench, at the desk, in the workshop. That presence is useful only if it is honest. A seal worn as decoration, with no working behind it, is just jewellery. A seal worn after a real working, and taken up again for the next, is a working tool that happens to be wearable. Keep that distinction in mind, and do not blur it for the sake of a nice object.

Showing the seal to the desired person is a use named in the old practice for workings aimed at a person, and it has a place where the working concerns someone specific. With Asmoday, whose matters are usually study, craft, and discovery rather than persuasion of a person, that use will be rarer. Where it fits, use it deliberately and openly, as part of a working you can stand behind, not as a trick. A seal shown in passing, without a working behind it, is not a working at all.

Preparing yourself and the room

Before you work with the seal, be clear about why you are doing this working, what you are asking for, and what you are prepared to do yourself. If you cannot state the matter in one clear sentence, write it down, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. That pause is part of the work, not a delay in it. Work from the instructions and teaching you already follow in the Goetia system. A general article like this one is not a substitute for proper teaching, and it should not be used to invent a purpose for a spirit you have not studied.

Clear the space you will use, physically, and set it aside for this purpose. Put away the things that pull your attention elsewhere. Set out what you will need before you begin: the seal, a safe candle arrangement if you are using one, oil or incense if your practice calls for them, and the work itself, the book, drawing, or piece you are studying or making. Fumbling for a tool after the working has begun breaks the very attention the seal is meant to hold.

Then prepare yourself. Bathe, or at least wash your hands and face, and change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands. This is about marking, for yourself, that this time is set apart. Eat simply beforehand if you can, and avoid starting a working when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as a seal is.

A simple working order, and keeping a record

The following is a general order, not a fixed script. Adapt it to the system you already work in. First, prepare the room and yourself, as above. Second, take up the seal, deliberately, and set out the work it concerns. Third, anoint or fumigate the seal if your practice calls for it, naming the purpose in your own words. Fourth, speak your question, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Fifth, sit quietly for a time and listen, or turn to the study or craft itself, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the seal away in its proper place, or put it on to wear, deliberately, not by habit.

Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed. Not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened, in plain language. Note the question in one sentence, how the seal was used, and what changed in the days afterwards: a calculation that cleared, a design that settled, a search that turned up something. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.

Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force an answer. 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. Do not wear the seal as a substitute for the study itself. The seal supports the work, it does not replace it, and a pendant worn through months of real study is worth more than a pendant worn through months of waiting.

Asmoday cast seal pendant, 1 inch

A cast seal is made to be handled, carried, and kept, through months of study and craft, not just for one night.

These are lost-wax cast seals, pure metal actually cast starting with a wax version, made to order, with a bail fitted so you can use the seal as a pendant. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.

If you want the seal for that work, this is the one I offer: Asmoday cast Daemon Demon seal pendant, 1 inch, $108 CAD. View the product

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