Focalor evocation: wind, sea, and a working done on your behalf
Focalor, Duke of wind and sea
Focalor is a Duke in the Goetia, and his office is one of the most elemental in the whole list. The Grimoire Companion entry gives it in one line: he holds power over wind and sea, and commands tempests and the fate of ships.
That last clause is as important as the first part, and it is often missed. Focalor's power is real, and it is destructive in its old description, but it is also commanded power, held under the exorcist's direction. A Duke of wind and sea does not act at random. He acts as commanded, and he forbears as commanded. That is the whole structure of Goetia evocation: a spirit of great power, approached with authority, directed clearly, and held to the terms of the working. If you are considering a Focalor working, that structure is what you are engaging with, and it should be understood before anything is asked.
Wind and sea are not only literal here. They are the powers that carry things, wreck things, and change the course of a voyage, whether that voyage is a ship's or a life's. A working with Focalor is a working with forces that move and overwhelm, and it should be approached with the same respect you would give to an actual sea: powerful, useful, and not to be trifled with.
What an evocation done on your behalf means
It is for an evocation performed for you, on your behalf, by Athena. That distinction changes everything about how you should think of it. You are not buying an object to use in your own working. You are asking an experienced practitioner to do a working for you, in her temple, with Focalor, for a request you give.
That tandem structure is worth understanding. The main working is done by Athena, and your part is a smaller, home-based act: lighting a candle, at home, in tandem with the evocation, so that the working has a point of contact in your own place as well as in the temple. That home candle is not a token gesture. It is how the working reaches your location, and how you take part in a working done on your behalf, rather than simply waiting for news of it.
When you give your request, give it clearly, in one sentence if you can, and state what you are asking Focalor for, and what limits you place on it. The old clause, that he will not hurt any man or thing if commanded to the contrary, shows that limits are part of the working, not an afterthought. State your request, and state its bounds, plainly, so the evocation is directed as you actually intend it, not as a vague wish that could be read in more than one way.
Offerings, and what happens after results begin
That is not a fee, and it is not an extra charge. It is the traditional return made to the spirit, after the work has begun to show, and when it is complete.
That home offering, like the home candle, is how your place participates in the working. It need not be elaborate. What matters is that it is done, deliberately, after results begin to be seen, and again when the work is complete, as thanks and as acknowledgement, in the manner your practice teaches, or as Athena directs for this working.
Keep a record of the whole working from your side: the date of the evocation, the request as you gave it, the candles you lit at home, the offerings you made, and what you noticed afterwards, in plain language, over days and weeks.
Preparing yourself for a working done for you
A working done on your behalf still asks something of you. Prepare yourself as you would for a working you were doing yourself, though more simply: be clear about the request, be settled in yourself on the day, and avoid approaching the working in anger or agitation if you can. A request given calmly, with its bounds stated, is easier to carry out than a request given in the heat of a moment, and it is easier to read afterwards, when you are looking back at what changed.
Consider, honestly, whether Focalor is the right spirit for your request, or whether the request belongs to another kind of working altogether. Focalor's office is wind, sea, and the overthrowing of ships of war. If your request concerns a voyage, a venture, a force that needs to be moved or wrecked, or a situation where wind and sea are the right image for what must happen, then Focalor fits. If your request concerns something else entirely, say so when you give it, and let Athena advise whether this is the right working, or whether another spirit, or another kind of service, fits better. Asking that question before the evocation is better than asking it afterwards.
It is also worth dealing with ordinary-world matters alongside the working, as with any spirit work. An evocation is not a substitute for practical action, for legal advice, for safety measures, or for the ordinary steps a situation requires. Do those steps as well, and let the working support them, rather than standing in their place.
Working with Focalor afterwards, in your own practice
If the evocation goes well, and you wish to continue working with Focalor in your own practice, the tools for that work are also offered here. The Focalor oil and the Focalor incense, each for anointing and spirit work with Focalor, are the matching tools for a practitioner who wants to take up Focalor work themselves, after an evocation done on their behalf. The oil is for anointing, for marking yourself, a seal, or a candle for the working. The incense is for filling the working space and setting the atmosphere for the rite itself. They do different jobs, and they are often used together, as with other Goetia workings.
The seal of Focalor, shown at the head of this article, is the figure used in Goetia work with this Duke, and a seal worked with in the traditional ways, held, placed under a candle, anointed with oil, carried, worn as a pendant, or shown as the working directs, is the companion to oil and incense in a practitioner's own Focalor practice. If you take up that practice, work from the instructions and teaching you already follow in the Goetia system, and keep a record of each working, as with any spirit work.
No promise is made here about what this evocation will do for you in terms of magical result. That wording is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for a service. What is offered is a Focalor Goetia evocation performed for you, on your behalf, generally in tandem with your own candle lighting at home, with candles and offerings given during and afterwards, and with offerings and rewards after results start to be seen and are complete highly recommended.
Storm, sea, and the image of Focalor's power
To work with Focalor, it helps to hold his image clearly, and his image is storm and sea. The old books describe a spirit who commands tempests and the fate of ships, and anyone who has seen a sea storm knows what that image carries: wind that changes direction without warning, water that lifts and drops great weight as if it were nothing, and a horizon that closes in until the only world is wind and wave. That is the scale of Focalor's office, and it is why his workings are not small workings. A spirit of storm and sea, called for a trivial matter, is a mismatch of scale, and mismatches of scale produce results that are hard to read and harder to control.
Hold that image when you frame your request. Is your matter of a scale that fits storm and sea? Does it concern a venture that must be carried, a force that must be wrecked, an opposition that must be overthrown as a ship of war is overthrown, or a course that must be changed as a ship's course is changed by wind? If so, Focalor's image fits your matter, and the working has a coherence that will carry it. If your matter is small, private, and quiet, another spirit, with a quieter office, may fit it better, and asking Athena that question before the evocation is part of framing the request well.
The sea image also carries a warning that belongs in any Focalor working: the sea does not bargain. It acts, and its action is total within its scope. That is why the exorcist's command, and the clause that Focalor will not hurt any man or thing if commanded to the contrary, are central to his working. The command is the rudder. Without it, a storm is only a storm. With it, a storm is a directed force, with bounds, and the bounds are what make the working safe to ask for. State your bounds as carefully as you state your request, and state them in the same sentence, so that request and limit arrive together, as one working, not as an afterthought.
After the evocation, watch for movement in the way you would watch weather: not for a single lightning strike, but for a change in wind, a shift in course, a venture that begins to move where it was becalmed, or an opposition that begins to break up where it was solid. Those are the signs of a sea working, and they unfold over days and weeks, as weather does, rather than in a single moment.
Focalor Evocation
For a Focalor working done on your behalf, this is the service offered: Focalor Evocation, $540 CAD. View the product
A Focalor Goetia evocation performed for you, on your behalf, generally in tandem with your own candle lighting at home. Candles and offerings are given during the evocation and afterwards, and offerings and rewards after results start to be seen and are complete are highly recommended. His office is to slay men, and to drown them in the waters, and to overthrow ships of war, for he hath power over both winds and seas; but he will not hurt any man or thing if he be commanded to the contrary by the exorcist.
For your own Focalor practice afterwards, matching tools are also offered: Focalor Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, and Focalor Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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