Astaroth Evocation: Love, Protection, and True Answers

Who Astaroth is in the Goetia

Astaroth is a great and powerful Duke in the Goetia, and the old description is vivid enough to be worth quoting in part: he appears like a beautiful angel riding on an infernal dragon and carrying a viper in his right hand. The same old caution is worth quoting too: let every exorcist take heed, that he admit him not too near him, because of his stinking breath. Those two lines together set the tone for Astaroth work. This is a spirit of power and beauty, approached with respect, and with a clear sense of distance and discipline, not with casual familiarity.

The Grimoire Companion adds a second set of offices, and the two sets belong together: Astaroth teaches the liberal sciences, answers truly of past, present, and future, and reveals hidden spiritual truths. Love, lust, and protection are matters of the heart and of safety. Teaching, true answers, and hidden truths are matters of knowledge. A working with Astaroth can therefore be a working of feeling, or a working of knowing, or, at its fullest, a working where feeling and knowing inform each other.

Be specific about which of those you are asking for, in plain words, before you begin. Love and lust are not the same petition, and protection is a third matter again. A true answer about the past is not the same as a true answer about the future, and a hidden spiritual truth is not the same as practical advice. Name the matter in one sentence. If you cannot, you are not ready yet, and the waiting is part of the work.

What an evocation performed for you means

An evocation performed for you on your behalf is a different thing from an evocation you perform yourself, and the difference should be understood before you ask for one. In a working you perform yourself, you are present for the preparation, the rite, and the closing, and you carry the experience in your own memory. In a working performed for you, the practitioner performs the rite, gives candles and offerings during the evocation as well as afterwards on your behalf, and you take part, in this case, generally in tandem with your own candle lighting at home.

That tandem part matters. An evocation performed for you is not a service you order and then forget about, while you wait for a result to arrive. Your own candle lighting at home, done at the time directed, is your part of the working. It keeps you present in the rite, even though you are not in the room where the evocation is performed, and it gives the working a point of contact in your own home, where the result, whatever it is, will actually be lived.

Offerings and rewards after results start to be seen and are complete are highly recommended for Goetia work of this kind. That recommendation is part of the working, not an optional extra to be considered afterwards. A spirit approached for help, and then ignored once help is received, is a relationship ended badly, and a practitioner who understands that will plan the offering, and the thanks, at the beginning, not as an afterthought.

Preparation on your side

Preparation for a working performed for you is quieter than preparation for a working you perform yourself, but it is not less important. Before the evocation, settle the matter you are asking about, in plain words, and give that wording to the practitioner as clearly as you can. If you cannot state it in one sentence, write it, leave it overnight, and see if it still reads true in the morning.

Prepare your home, and your candle, as directed. Clear the place where you will light your candle, set it aside for that time, and be ready to light it at the time given. Do not treat your own candle lighting as a formality. It is your part of the rite, and it deserves the same attention you would give to being present in the room: clean hands, clean clothes, a settled mind, and time set apart, not squeezed between other business.

Prepare yourself, too, in the days before the working. Eat simply if you can, rest, and avoid starting the period of the working when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head is a working tool, even when the rite itself is performed by someone else, because your own candle lighting, and your own observation afterwards, depend on it.

Love, lust, and protection, named separately

Love, lust, and protection are often spoken of together, as if they were one matter, and in a life they often overlap. In a working, they deserve to be named separately, because each asks for something different, and each is observed differently afterwards.

Love, as a petition, can mean affection between people who already know each other, a new meeting, the healing of a distance, or the strengthening of a bond that has grown thin. Name which one. Lust, as a petition, is a matter of desire, and desire, named honestly, is a clearer petition than desire dressed up in vaguer language. Protection, as a petition, is a matter of safety, of a boundary held, or of a situation kept from harm. Name what you are asking protection from, in plain terms, and name whether the protection is for yourself, for another person, or for a place.

Being specific about what you want is practical advice in all three cases, because a vague petition produces results you cannot read, and results you cannot read cannot teach you anything. It also protects you from asking for one thing while meaning another, and then being surprised, or disappointed, by an answer that fits the words you used rather than the wish you held back.

True answers and hidden truths

Astaroth's offices of teaching and true answers point to a different kind of working from love or protection. Teaching the liberal sciences, in the old language, means teaching the arts and sciences that form a learned practitioner: language, number, music, astronomy, and the rest, in their traditional order. A modern practitioner asking for teaching might ask, more plainly, for understanding in a study they are actually pursuing, for clarity in a subject that has confused them, or for the discipline to finish a course of learning they have begun.

Answering truly of past, present, and future is divination, and divination has its own discipline. A true answer is not always a welcome answer, and it is not always the answer you hoped for. Part of asking for a true answer is being willing to hear something you did not expect, and to sit with it before you act on it. Write the answer down, as you receive it, or as it is reported to you. Leave it overnight. See how it reads in the morning, when the excitement of the working has faded.

Revealing hidden spiritual truths is the deepest of these offices, and the one that most requires patience. A hidden truth is not revealed all at once, like a fact handed over, but over time, as understanding deepens. A working for hidden truth should therefore be followed by study, by reflection, and by a record kept over weeks and months, so that the unfolding can be seen. A single night's answer is the beginning of that unfolding, not its end.

Working with the seal

Astaroth's seal is a working tool in its own right, and it has a place in a working performed for you as well as in a working you perform yourself. In practice, a seal can be held in the hand during a working, placed under a candle, anointed with oil, carried with you, worn as a pendant, or shown to the person you have in mind, according to the working and your own system.

For your own candle lighting at home, you might set the seal out where you can see it while your candle burns, or hold it while you speak your part of the petition, as your system directs. If you anoint a seal, do it deliberately, with the purpose named, and let the oil stay on the seal while the candle burns. Astaroth incense is offered for this work, and it is made in the same hand-made way as the other Goetia incenses here. Let your system, and the practitioner's directions, guide the detail, and keep the seal set apart, in its proper place, between workings.

After the evocation: observation and thanks

After the evocation, the work is observation. Write down what was asked, when the working was done, what you did at home, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened, in plain language. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the working.

With love and protection workings especially, the record matters, because feelings shift for many reasons, and safety improves for many reasons, and memory is quick to credit the working for a change that had an ordinary cause, or to miss a change because it did not arrive in the form you pictured. A plain record, kept honestly, protects you from both errors.

Give the offerings and thanks that were planned, after results start to be seen and are complete, as recommended. Do it deliberately, and in good time, not as a rushed afterthought. A working closed with thanks is a working closed properly, and a relationship left in good order is a relationship that can be returned to, if a further working is ever needed.

I make no promise about the magical result of any evocation, whether performed by you or for you. That wording is about the magical result, not about delivery dates for a physical item. What can be said is that the evocation is performed by a practitioner who gives candles and offerings during the working and afterwards, and who asks you to take your own part, with your own candle lighting at home, seriously.

When this is not the right work

Sometimes the right answer is not a spirit working at all. 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 work 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 practice first and see how that sits.

It is also worth asking, honestly, whether an evocation performed for you is what you need, or whether you are looking for a working to carry a matter you have not yet done the ordinary work for. An evocation supports a life. It does not replace the conversation, the study, the boundary, or the change in habit that the matter actually requires. Do that work as well. The two kinds of work strengthen each other.

Do not ask for a working when you are angry in the moment, or heartsick in a way that makes clear thought impossible, if you can avoid it. Strong feeling passes, and a request made in the heat of it often reads, afterwards, as something you wish you had phrased differently. Wait until you can state the matter calmly, even if the matter itself is tender.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for the evocation and for the period after it: date, request in one sentence, what you did at home, offerings and thanks given, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the request 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 request endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Let the working stand, 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.

Astaroth Evocation

If you want an evocation of Astaroth performed for you on your behalf, this is the working offered here.

The evocation is performed for you, with candles and offerings given during the working and afterwards on your behalf, and it is generally performed in tandem with your own candle lighting at home. Offerings and rewards after results start to be seen and are complete are highly recommended. I make no promise about the magical result, only that the working is performed as described, by a practitioner who takes your part in it seriously.

Astaroth Evocation, $216 CAD. View the product

For the same work at home, I also offer Astaroth Goetia incense, $44 CAD.

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