Working with Ipos: wit, boldness, and loyal familiars
An evocation performed for you, not a tool you use yourself
An evocation performed for you is not the same as a product you use yourself. You do not receive a tool in the post and then do the working.
It does not give a script, a date, or a detailed ritual order, and this article does not invent one. What it does give is the shape of the work: a Goetia evocation, performed for you, with a request given to Ipos, generally performed in tandem with your own candle lighting at home. That tandem working is the part most buyers miss, and it is the part that makes the difference between a service you passively wait for and a working you take part in.
Be clear, before you order, which kind you want.
Ipos, and what wit, boldness, and daring mean in practice
Ipos is an Earl in the Grimoire Companion, with 36 legions, and his entry is short and sharp: he makes the practitioner witty, bold, and daring, and he grants loyal familiars. Those three words, witty, bold, and daring, are not decorations. They describe a particular kind of change in the practitioner, and they are worth understanding separately, because a request that blurs them will be harder to judge afterwards than a request that names one of them clearly.
Wit, in this context, is not cleverness for its own sake. It is quickness of mind, readiness in speech, and the ability to see a situation clearly and answer it well, in the moment, rather than thinking of the right reply hours later. A practitioner who seeks wit is seeking a sharper presence in conversation, in negotiation, in debate, and in any situation where words matter and time is short. Name the situations where you need that quickness, because wit in general is hard to measure, while wit in a particular kind of meeting is easy to notice.
Boldness and daring are close to wit, but they are not the same thing. Boldness is the willingness to act, to speak, to step forward when others hold back. Daring is boldness carried further, into action that carries risk, where the outcome is uncertain and the cost of failure is real. A request for boldness should name the action you are holding back from, and a request for daring should name the risk you are willing to take, honestly, because daring without a named risk is only a word, and boldness without a named action is only a feeling.
Loyal familiars: the second strand of Ipos work
The second strand of Ipos work is the granting of loyal familiars. A familiar, in Goetia practice, is a spirit companion who serves the practitioner faithfully, over time, rather than a spirit called once for a single request. Loyalty is the key word in the entry, and it is worth dwelling on, because a familiar who is not loyal is a liability, not a help, and a familiar who is loyal is a long commitment, not a single working.
Do not order an Ipos evocation for a familiar lightly, or as if a familiar were a pet to be acquired and then forgotten. A familiar granted through an evocation is a working relationship, and working relationships need attention, offerings, and a clear understanding of what is asked and what is given in return. Before you give a request for a familiar, ask yourself whether you are ready for that relationship, whether you have the time and the practice to maintain it, and what you actually want the familiar to do for you, in plain language.
If you are not ready for a familiar, but you do want wit, boldness, or daring, then name that in the request, and leave the familiar out of it. A request that asks for everything Ipos offers, whether you need it or not, is a weaker request than one that asks for the one thing you actually need, clearly. The evocation is performed for the request you give, so give the request you mean, and no more.
Being specific about the request you give
The request you give to Ipos is the heart of this working, because Athena performs the evocation for that request, and you take part from home with your own candle lighting. A vague request produces a vague working, and a vague working is hard to read afterwards. If you cannot state the request in one clear sentence, you are not ready to order yet. 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.
Be specific about what you want, and about the situations it concerns. In a wit request, name the kind of conversation or meeting where quickness matters. In a boldness request, name the action you are holding back from. In a daring request, name the risk, and be honest about whether you are willing to bear it. In a familiar request, name what you want the familiar to do, and what you are prepared to give in return. A request that names none of these things, but asks generally for confidence, leaves the working without a shape.
Also be specific about what you are prepared to do yourself. Wit, boldness, and daring are qualities of the practitioner, not substitutes for the practitioner's own action. An evocation that makes you bolder will not help if you still do not step forward, speak, or act when the moment comes. The evocation is performed for you, but the action that follows it, in the ordinary world, is still yours, and it should be named alongside the request, honestly, before you order.
Your part at home: the candle, and the offerings
That home part is not decoration. It is how the working reaches your place, and your life, rather than remaining a working done elsewhere.
Light your candle deliberately, with the request in mind, in the way your own practice allows. Do not rush it, and do not treat it as a formality to be got through before the real work happens elsewhere. The real work includes your candle, your attention, and your offerings at home, just as it includes the evocation performed on your behalf. Give the candle a safe place, a heat-proof surface, and your full attention for the time it burns, and do not leave it unattended.
That recommendation is part of the working's shape, not an afterthought. Plan for it before you order, so that when results start to be seen, you are ready to give what you promised, promptly and properly, rather than scrambling to decide what an offering should be after the fact.
The seal of Ipos, and how seals are worked with
A seal may be held in the hand, put under a candle, anointed with oil, carried with you, worn as a pendant, or shown to the desired person, according to the working and the system you follow. Each of those uses is a different way of keeping the seal present in the working, and in the situation it concerns.
For Ipos work, carrying a seal, or wearing it as a pendant, has a particular sense, because wit, boldness, and daring are needed where life actually happens: in meetings, in conversations, in negotiations, in moments when you must speak or act. A seal kept in a drawer while you walk into the very situation it was made for is not doing its work. A seal carried with you, where the situation happens, keeps the working present in your mind, and that presence is part of how you will notice whether you are speaking more readily, acting more boldly, or daring more than you did before.
Holding a seal before a meeting, putting it under a candle during a working, or anointing it with oil are all ways of marking the seal, and the working, for the purpose. Do not use all of them at once, for their own sake. Use the one that belongs to the working you are doing, deliberately, and keep the rest in mind for workings where they belong. The point of knowing these uses is not to collect gestures. It is to understand, when you light your candle at home in tandem with the evocation, what a seal does in a working, and why attention to it matters.
Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for this working: date, the request in one sentence, the candle lighting you did at home, the offerings you gave, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. In a wit working, note the conversations where you spoke more readily, or answered more sharply, than you would have before. In a boldness working, note the actions you took that you had previously held back from. In a familiar working, note what the familiar did, and how the relationship developed. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed.
Do not repeat the same evocation 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. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise, and in a working about wit and boldness, noise only makes it harder to hear your own judgement.
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.
Ipos Evocation, performed on your behalf
I perform this evocation myself, on your behalf, for the request you give to Ipos, with candles and offerings given during the working and afterwards. It is generally performed in tandem with your own candle lighting at home, and I recommend offerings and rewards after results start to be seen and when the working is complete. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is performed by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.
If you want this work done for you, this is the one I offer: Ipos Evocation, $540 CAD. View the product
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