Botis evocation: past and to come, and reconciling friends and enemies
Botis, and what he is known for
Botis is a President in the Goetia, and his entry in the Grimoire Companion gives him two distinct offices, which belong together more closely than they first appear: he tells all things past and to come, and he reconciles friends and enemies. Divination and reconciliation are not two unrelated powers pasted onto one spirit. They are two sides of the same work, because a quarrel is rarely only about the present moment. It is about what happened in the past, and about what will happen next if nothing changes.
Telling all things past and to come is, in the old language, a claim about knowledge across time. A practitioner who asks Botis for divination is asking to see a matter clearly, in its history and in its likely course, rather than asking for a single yes or no about tomorrow. That kind of seeing is useful precisely where reconciliation is needed, because most reconciliations fail, not for lack of goodwill, but for lack of a clear picture of how the breach happened, and what each side actually wants now.
Reconciling friends and enemies is, likewise, a specific office, not a vague promise of harmony. Friends reconciled are friendships restored, after a breach, a misunderstanding, or a long silence. Enemies reconciled are enmities softened, or at least brought to a point where they no longer govern every interaction. Both are matters of relationship, and both ask for honesty about the past, and for a realistic view of the future, which is why Botis holds both offices together.
What an evocation done on your behalf actually means
This offering is an evocation performed for you on your behalf, with a request given to the spirit. That is a different thing from learning to evoke Botis yourself, and it is worth being clear about the difference before you ask for it. When Athena evokes on your behalf, she does the working, in her own space, with her own training and tools, and your part is the request itself, and the work you do at home alongside it.
The evocation is generally performed in tandem with your own candle lighting at home. That tandem is not an optional extra. It is how a working done at a distance stays connected to the person it is done for. You light a candle at home, at the agreed time, with the same request in mind, and the working has two ends: the evocation itself, and your own attention, held steady at home.
That two-sided offering, hers in the working and yours at home, is part of the old pattern of dealing with spirits: a request is made, offerings are given, and thanks and rewards follow when the work is done, not only before it begins.
Framing a request for Botis
A request to Botis should be shaped to Botis, and it should be specific about which of his offices you are asking about, and about whom. If the matter is divination, what do you want to know about the past, and what do you want to know about what is to come, in a specific situation? If the matter is reconciliation, with whom, after what breach, and what would reconciliation actually look like, in practical terms: a conversation, a restored friendship, a working relationship, or simply an end to open hostility?
Be specific about what you want, and be honest about your own part in the matter. A reconciliation request that describes the other person as entirely at fault, and yourself as entirely innocent, is unlikely to be a clear request, however sincerely it is made, because most breaches have two sides, and a spirit who tells things past and to come is not a spirit to whom a one-sided story is a good offering. State the matter plainly, including your own part, write it down, and leave it overnight to see if it still reads true.
Think, too, about what you will do at home while the evocation is performed, and after it. Light your candle deliberately, sit with the request for a time, and then, in the days that follow, be ready to act in the ordinary world as well as in the magical one. A reconciliation that is asked for magically, and then refused practically, when a conversation is offered or a message arrives, is a working undone by its own petitioner, and that is a common way for reconciliation work to fail.
Seeing clearly, and acting on what you see
Divination, in Botis work, is not fortune-telling as entertainment. It is seeing a matter clearly, across time, so that you can act wisely in the present. That means paying attention to the past, not as a story you tell yourself, but as a sequence of events, decisions, and misunderstandings, each of which can be named, and each of which contributed to where things stand now. Write that sequence down, in plain language, before and after the working, and compare the two versions. The differences between them are often where the learning lies.
Seeing what is to come is, likewise, not a fixed prediction to be waited for passively. It is a view of the likely course of a matter, if nothing changes, and of the points at which a different choice could change that course. A practitioner who receives such a view, and then does nothing differently, should not be surprised if the likely course comes to pass. The point of seeing ahead is to act differently now, while there is still time to do so, not to watch a prediction fulfil itself.
Keep a record of what you asked, what you were shown or what you noticed, and what you did afterwards, in the ordinary world, over days and weeks. Note conversations, messages, and changes in the relationship, in plain language, not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened. That record is what lets you tell, months later, whether a reconciliation took hold, whether it was partial, or whether the matter needed a different approach, or no further approach at all.
After the working, and what to do next
After an evocation done on your behalf, give the work time, and give the offerings and thanks their proper place. Offerings and rewards after results start to be seen, and when the work is complete, are highly recommended, and that is a pattern to follow, not a formality to skip. Thanks given only before a result, and forgotten afterwards, is a poor way to deal with any spirit, and Botis, who deals in relationships, is a spirit to whom thanks and good faith matter in a particular way.
Do not repeat the same request endlessly, through evocation after evocation, in the hope that repetition alone will force a reconciliation, or force a clear answer. Do the work properly, once, with a clear request and your own candle lighting at home, act wisely in the ordinary world afterwards, observe over time, 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 in relationship work, it can also become pressure, which is the opposite of reconciliation.
If you want to go further with Botis yourself, the next step is study and practice in your own Goetia work, following the teaching you already follow, rather than collecting more evocations done for you. An evocation on your behalf can open a matter, and can carry a request, but it does not replace learning the system yourself, and a practitioner who wants a lasting understanding of past and to come, and of reconciliation, will, in time, need to learn to work with that spirit directly.
The conversation itself, and what reconciliation requires
Reconciliation, in the end, happens in a conversation, or in a series of conversations, in the ordinary world, and no evocation, however well performed, replaces that conversation. If Botis work opens a door, you still have to walk through it, and walking through it means speaking, listening, and being willing to hear things you would rather not hear. Prepare for that conversation as carefully as you prepared the working: know what you want to say, know what you are willing to concede, and know what you will do if the other person is not ready, or not willing, to reconcile at all.
Listening, in a reconciliation conversation, is harder than speaking, and more important. Most breaches persist, not because no one has spoken, but because no one has really listened, and each side has been rehearsing its own version of events while the other side speaks. Listen, therefore, without interrupting, without preparing your reply while the other person is still talking, and without treating listening as a tactic to be abandoned once you have heard enough to answer. Genuine listening changes the listener, and that change is often what the other person has been waiting to see, whether they can name it or not.
Finally, accept that reconciliation may be partial, or slow, or different from what you imagined. A friendship restored to a working relationship, rather than to its former intimacy, is still a reconciliation, and a valuable one. An enmity softened to indifference, rather than to friendship, is still a change, and a change worth having. Judge the work by what actually changes, in the relationship, over time, rather than by whether it matches a picture you had in advance, and give that change time to settle, before you decide whether further work, magical or ordinary, is needed.
A final word on time: past and to come are not two separate countries, and reconciliation is not a single event that happens on a single day. Both unfold over time, in conversations, in messages, in small changes of behaviour, and in the slow rebuilding of trust, or the slow softening of hostility, that no single working can hurry. Give the work time, give the relationship time, and judge both, not by a single night, but by the pattern that emerges over weeks and months, in plain, observable changes, in how you and the other person actually treat one another.
A Botis evocation, performed for you
I perform this evocation on your behalf, with the request you give to Botis. It is generally performed in tandem with your own candle lighting at home, and I give candles and offerings during the evocation and afterwards on your behalf, as well as recommending offerings and rewards from you after results start to be seen and when the work is complete.
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