Working with Asmoday: a bath for learning, craft, true answers, and treasure
Asmoday, and what this bath is for
Asmoday is entered in the Grimoire Companion notes as a King who teaches arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and handicrafts, answers all questions, and discovers treasures. That is a broad office, and it tells you what kind of work this bath belongs to before you run any water. It is work about learning, about making with the hands, about questions asked plainly and answered truly, and about things of value that are found, not merely wished for.
Arithmetic, astronomy, and geometry belong together here, as they do in the old liberal studies: number, the heavens, and measure. Arithmetic is reckoning itself, done correctly. Astronomy is the heavens as an ordered system, moving in courses that can be reckoned. Geometry is measure, of lines, angles, circles, and proportions. To learn these, in the tradition's language, is not to collect impressive terms, but to learn to reckon, to observe, and to measure without sloppiness and without guesswork. Before you bathe, be clear about which of these you are actually studying, because a petition for learning in general tends to produce a vague working, and a vague working is hard to read afterwards.
Handicrafts belong with those studies, and that pairing is worth noticing. A handicraft is learning made with the hands: a thing drawn, carved, cast, sewn, or built, whose quality shows whether the maker understood the measure or not. If your work involves making, whether in a ritual craft or in an ordinary trade, that side of the office may be the one that fits your situation best, and it should be named as such, rather than folded into a general wish to learn.
Answering all questions, and discovering treasures, are the other two parts of the office, and they pair naturally with learning and craft. A question asked plainly deserves an answer that is plain, and a treasure discovered is often the result of work done properly: a search done thoroughly, a skill practised until it holds, a record checked until the missing piece turns up. Be specific about the question you are asking, and about the treasure you mean, because a question that is really several questions bundled together will be hard to work with, and a treasure named only in general terms cannot be recognised when it is found.
Starting with the work, not with the tool
Spirit work is not shopping, and a bath does not do the work for you. Before you bathe, be clear about the matter in hand, in one sentence. What are you learning, what are you making, what question are you asking, or what treasure are you seeking? If you cannot state it in one 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.
It is also worth asking, honestly, whether there is ordinary-world work that belongs first, or alongside. A book that needs reading properly, a drawing that needs doing carefully, a calculation that needs checking, a piece of craft that needs practising, a search that needs doing thoroughly: ritual work does not replace those things, and it works best when it accompanies them, giving you the steadiness and attention to do them well. If you are working with Asmoday on learning or craft, the study and the making themselves are part of the working, not something that happens after the working is over.
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.
Why a bath, and why this bath
A bath is a different kind of preparation from anointing or incense, because it involves the whole body, and because it takes time. You cannot rush a bath in the way you can rush a single gesture. You have to prepare the water, get in, stay in it, and then get out and dry off, and that whole sequence marks the time as set apart in a way a quick act does not.
Bathing before spirit work is also a cleansing in the plain sense: washing off the day, the errands, the conversations, and the dust of ordinary life, so that you enter the working clean, in body and in attention. For work about learning and craft, that cleansing has a particular aptness. You are washing off the hurry and the clutter of the day, in order to sit down to study or to make with a clear head, and the bath itself becomes a way of setting aside distraction, in order to attend properly.
The Asmoday bath offered here is made from 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. That matters in practice, not as a luxury, but as a matter of attention: a bath made from real materials, in a small batch, for this specific work, is a different thing in the water from a scented product made for general use. You will notice the difference when you open it, and you will notice it again in the bath itself.
How to use the bath
To use any of the baths offered here, you simply add them to a pot of water, approximately 1 litre or so. 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.
That instruction is worth following literally, because it is practical as well as ritual. Herbs in bath water will clog a drain if they are left to go down it, and they will stick to skin and to the bath itself if they are not strained out. Straining is not a distraction from the working. It is part of doing the working properly, in an ordinary bathroom, with ordinary plumbing, and it keeps the rest of the practice clean and workable.
It is best to take each bath each day for 3 days in a row. That three-day sequence matters, and it should not be collapsed into a single long bath, or spread out over weeks until it loses its shape. Three days in a row gives the work a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it gives you three separate occasions to hold the same purpose in mind, to notice what changes, and to let the work settle. Plan the three days in advance, so you are not scrambling for time on the second or third day, and so the sequence can be kept cleanly.
Prepare the room as well as the water. Clear the bathroom, or the space where you will bathe, set aside the time so you will not be interrupted, and have towels, the strainer, and anything else you need ready before you begin. A bath taken in a hurry, with the phone ringing and someone knocking, is not the same working as a bath taken in a set-apart time, and the difference will show in the record you keep afterwards.
Preparing yourself, and framing the question
Prepare yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: wash, and know what you are going to ask, in your own words, before you begin. For Asmoday work, the framing of the question, or the naming of the study or craft, is the preparation. A question that is really several questions bundled together will be hard to work with, and a study named only as learning in general will be hard to judge afterwards.
Write the question, or the study, down, in one sentence, before the first bath. Leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. If it does, hold it through all three baths, unchanged, so the three days form one working, not three different ones. If it changes, notice that, and note it in the record, because a question that changes during the working is itself information about the matter.
After each bath, do not immediately rush back into ordinary errands. Dry off, dress, sit quietly for a time, and let the working settle. Then write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed, in plain language. For learning, note what you understood that you had not understood before. For craft, note the work itself, and whether it grew more accurate. For a question, note the answer, and whether it proved true over time. For treasure, note what was found, and whether it proved valuable over time, or only looked valuable at first.
Incense to go with the bath
A bath is often used as preparation for a fuller working, rather than as the whole working on its own, and Asmoday work is no exception. The bath cleanses and prepares. Incense fills the space and sets the atmosphere for the working itself. They do different jobs, and they reinforce each other when they are used together with a clear purpose.
Asmoday also has a matching incense, for spirit work and spellwork with Asmoday, made in small batches when you order. If you are doing a full working, bathe first, over the three days, then light the incense and let the room settle before you speak your petition, and then study, practise, or ask, with attention, for the time you set aside. Do not rush from one step to the next. Give each step its own time, and give yourself a moment to notice each change.
If you are only bathing, without a fuller working to follow, that is also a recognised use: a bath as preparation, as cleansing, and as a working in its own right, done over three days, with a clear purpose held throughout. Do that bathing deliberately, too, holding the purpose in mind through the whole bath, rather than treating it as an ordinary wash with something added to the water.
A simple working order, to adapt to your own practice
The following is a general order, not a fixed script. Adapt it to the system you already work in, and to the instructions you already follow for Goetia work. First, prepare the room, the water, and yourself, as above, and frame the question or study in one sentence. Second, prepare the bath, adding it to approximately 1 litre of water, and straining out herb pieces afterwards. Third, bathe, holding the purpose in mind, on each of the three days. Fourth, if you are doing a fuller working, light incense after bathing, and speak your petition, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Fifth, study, practise, or ask, with attention, for the time you set aside, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires.
Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Note the bath itself in that record: how the water behaved, how the three days felt, what you noticed on each day compared with the others. Those practical details are part of learning how to work with baths well, not a distraction from it.
Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, bath and any incense used, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. For learning, note actual understanding, with examples, not only a feeling of progress. For craft, note the pieces themselves. For questions, note the question, the answer, and whether it proved true. For treasure, note what was found, when, and how.
Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, over its three days, 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.
Asmoday bath, and Asmoday incense to go with it
If you are doing spirit work with Asmoday, the bath is for preparation and cleansing, not for show.
I make the Asmoday bath myself, from 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics, and I bless it myself before it is sent out. It is made for a magick bath for work with Asmoday, to be taken each day for 3 days in a row. 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: Asmoday Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product
I also make the incense to go with it, for the same work: Asmoday Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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