Working with Furfur: love, storm, and secret things, anointed
Furfur, and three offices that need care
Furfur is an Earl in the Grimoire Companion material, with love, nature, and divination among his concerns. The Companion entry states his office plainly: he kindles love, commands thunder and lightning, and answers of secret and divine things. Those three offices need to be read together, and with care, because each of them, taken alone, is easy to misunderstand. Love kindled is not love manufactured. Thunder and lightning are not weather to be ordered about for effect. Answers of secret and divine things are not gossip to be collected. Together, they describe a spirit whose work is intense, sudden, and revealing: a love that arrives with force, a storm that clears the air, and a secret that, once spoken, changes how everything else is seen.
Love, in Furfur work, is therefore best approached with the same specificity that good practice requires in any love work. Reflection about being specific about what you want is part of that practice, because vague work tends to produce vague results, and vague results are hard to read afterwards. Be specific with yourself about which relationship you mean, what kind of love you are actually working towards, and what would count, in ordinary life, as that love being real rather than merely intense. Intensity is not the same as love, and a storm is not the same as a relationship. A working that kindles something intense but unsustainable has not necessarily done the work you actually needed done. Write the matter down in one clear sentence, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true.
Secret and divine things are the third office, and they set a limit on the other two. A secret, once revealed, cannot be unrevealed, and a divine thing, once glimpsed, changes the person who glimpsed it. Before you do any work in this area, ask whether you are actually willing to hear a secret answer, and what you will do with it once you have heard it. If you are seeking an answer about another person, ask whether that answer is yours to seek, and what you will do if it is unwelcome. Those are not questions to rush past in the excitement of a stormy working. They are the questions that make the working honest, and they are best faced before you anoint anything, not after.
Why anointing, and why oil at all
Anointing is a way of marking something, or someone, for a purpose. In practice, it is often done on the hands, the forehead, or on a tool, seal, or candle that will be used in the working. The act itself is simple, and that simplicity is the point. You are not hiding the work behind complicated gestures. You are touching the thing, naming the purpose, and doing it deliberately. Oil is used for anointing because it stays. It does not evaporate in a moment like a scent on the air, and it does not wash off at the first touch. It remains on the skin or on the tool while you work, and that staying quality is part of how it functions in a ritual setting. You can smell it, you can feel it, and you are reminded, through the whole working, of what you set out to do.
That staying quality matters especially in Furfur work, because the work itself is sudden. Thunder and lightning do not arrive gradually, and a love kindled suddenly can feel as if it has come from nowhere. An oil that stays with you through the working gives you an anchor in that suddenness: something to return to, something that reminds you of the purpose you named before the working began, when you were calm enough to name it clearly. Anointing, done deliberately, is therefore not only a marking. It is a way of holding yourself to the purpose you set, when the working itself becomes intense.
That is also why the quality of the oil matters in practice, not as a luxury, but as a matter of attention. An oil made in a hurry, from synthetic scent, does not carry the same weight in the room as an oil made for this specific work, from real materials, in a small batch. You will notice the difference when you open the bottle, and you will notice it again halfway through the working, when the scent is still there and still clear. The Furfur oil offered here is hand made from only pure essential oils, roots and herbs, with no extraneous ingredients or fillers, and no synthetics. Sometimes there is the odd gemstone thrown in as well.
How the Furfur oil is made here, and how it is used
Each batch of oil is hand made when you order, not pulled from a warehouse shelf months in advance. That made-to-order point matters for a working like this. It means the oil has not been sitting, opened and closed, through other people's orders. It is made for your order, and then blessed by Athena herself before it is sent out. No promise is made here about what it will do for you in terms of magical result. That wording is about the magical result of the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items. The oil is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced. What follows from the practice is yours to observe, not mine to guarantee.
Use the oil as you would any anointing oil in Goetia work, adapted to your own practice. Anoint a seal, a candle, or your own hands, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words. If you are anointing a seal for Furfur, that seal can then be held, put under a candle, carried with you, worn as a pendant, or shown to the desired person, following Athena's general guidance for working with a seal. Each of those uses suits a different moment, and the choice between them is itself a decision about what you are actually doing. Anointing a candle is for a working that is meant to burn steadily. Anointing your hands is for a working in which you yourself will speak or act. Anointing a seal is for a working in which the seal itself will carry the focus forward.
Do not use the oil internally, and do not use it on broken skin. It is made for anointing and ritual use, from essential oils, roots and herbs, and it should be treated as a ritual oil, not as a food, a medicine, or a skin treatment. If you have sensitivities to essential oils, test a small amount first, or do not use it on skin at all, and anoint a tool or candle instead. That practical caution is especially important in love work, where the temptation is to anoint another person directly. Do not anoint another person without their understanding and consent, and do not use oil as a way to pressure someone. A love kindled without honesty will not last in the form you wanted it to, and a working that begins with pressure will not end in the kind of relationship this article describes.
Incense, preparation, and keeping a record
Incense and oil are often used together in Goetia work, and Furfur work is no exception. They do different jobs in the room. The oil marks and anoints. The incense fills the space and sets the atmosphere for the working itself. The Furfur incense offered here is hand made in the same way: each batch is hand made when you order it, unless a batch has just recently been made, and the incenses made here are of a quality that Athena uses herself for magical work, for spirit work, work for clients, as well as her own spellwork. If you are doing a full working, rather than a single anointing, use both. Anoint first, with a clear purpose in mind, then light the incense and let the room settle before you speak your petition. Do not rush from lighting to speaking. Give the room a moment to change, and give yourself a moment to notice that change.
Prepare the room and yourself, as you would for any Goetia work. Clear the space you will use, set it aside for this purpose, and put away the things that pull your attention elsewhere. Bathe, or at least wash your hands and face, and change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands. This is not about looking a certain way for anyone else. It 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 oil or incense is, and in intense work a clear head is doubly important, because intensity easily turns into haste, and haste easily turns into words you wish you had not said.
A simple working order, to adapt to your own practice, runs as follows. First, prepare the room and yourself, as above. Second, set out the seal, tool, or candle you will use, and the oil and incense. Third, anoint, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words. Fourth, light the incense and let the space settle. Fifth, speak your petition, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Sixth, sit quietly for a time and listen, rather than filling every moment with more words. Seventh, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the tools away in their proper place. Do not treat a general article as a substitute for proper teaching in the system you follow.
Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, oil and incense used, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. For Furfur work, that record should track the relationship and the secrets themselves, not only your feelings about them: did a conversation happen that had not happened before, did a secret come to light, did a relationship change in a way that held, or did intensity fade and leave the same situation underneath? If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition 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 working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. 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. If the matter is a legal, safety, or medical matter, deal with that matter in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual work is not a substitute for sound advice, or for leaving a dangerous situation.
Furfur Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, and Furfur incense to go with it
If you are doing spirit work with Furfur, the oil is for anointing, not for show.
I hand make Furfur oil myself, from pure essential oils, roots, and herbs, with no synthetics and no fillers, sometimes with the odd gemstone thrown in, and I bless it myself before it is sent out. It is made in small batches, when you order, for anointing and spirit work with Furfur, in a half-ounce bottle. I make no promise about what it will do for you in terms of magical result, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced. That wording is about magical result, not about delivery dates.
If you want the oil for that work, this is the one I offer: Furfur Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, half-ounce bottle. View the product
I also make the incense to go with it, for the same work: Furfur Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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