Working with Marchosias: a cast seal pendant for strength in contest
Marchosias, and what this seal is for
Marchosias is a Marquis in the Goetia, and the Grimoire Companion entry for him is short and direct: he answers truly, and grants strength and mastery in battle and contest. That is the field this seal belongs to. It is not a general good-luck piece, and it is not a decoration that happens to carry an old design. It is a working tool for a particular kind of situation, one in which you are facing a contest, a confrontation, or a test of strength, and you want to meet it with a clear head and a steady hand rather than with bluster or panic.
Strength in this context is worth defining before you do anything else. It is not only physical strength, and it is not only the strength to push harder than the other side. In a contest, strength also means holding your position when you are tired, speaking plainly when it would be easier to hedge, and refusing a bad bargain even when you are under pressure to accept it. A seal for Marchosias is best approached in that spirit: as a focus for the kind of strength that lasts through a whole contest, not just through its opening moments.
True answers, and the question behind the contest
The other half of the Marchosias entry matters just as much as strength. He answers truly. That is a useful check on any working in this field, because contests have a way of blurring the question at stake. You may start out fighting about one thing and, halfway through, find yourself fighting about pride, or about an old slight, or about who spoke last. A true answer cuts through that drift. It names what the contest is actually about, and what would count as a fair outcome.
Before you work with the seal, write the contest down in one clear sentence. Who is involved, what is at stake, and what outcome are you actually seeking? Then write a second sentence: what would you accept as a true answer, even if it is not the answer you hoped for? That second sentence is the harder one, and it is the one that makes the work honest. If you cannot write it, you are not ready to begin. Sit with the question a little longer, and let the answer settle before you pick the seal up.
A seal, not a picture of one
A cast seal pendant should be a seal, not a picture of one. That distinction sounds simple, and it changes how you work with the thing in your hands. A picture can be looked at. A seal can be held while you think a matter through, placed under a candle while you sit with a question, anointed with oil before a working, carried with you into the situation itself, worn as a pendant, or shown to the person the working concerns. It has weight, it has a surface you can touch, and it stays with you after the working is over, in a way a printed image does not.
That is why the making of these seals matters. They are lost wax cast seals, cast from a wax version in pure metal, rather than printed or pressed imitations. The casting is done by hand, and the seal is blessed before it is sent out. When you hold it, you are holding something that was made for this work, one at a time, not something run off in bulk and labelled afterwards. Treat it accordingly. Keep it somewhere clean and set apart when you are not using it, and do not let it drift into the general clutter of keys, coins, and pocket change.
Working with the seal, step by step
Begin with preparation, not with the contest itself. Clear the space you will use, and set the seal where you can see it. Hold it in your hand and state the matter in the sentence you wrote earlier, plainly, without embroidery. If the working calls for a candle, place the seal under the candle while you sit with the question, and give yourself time to listen rather than rushing to speak. The point of this part of the work is steadiness: a quiet mind, a clear statement, and attention on the matter in front of you.
Oil has its place here too. If you have the matching Marchosias oil, a little of it on the seal before the working is the traditional way to dress a tool for this kind of work, and the matching incense can be burned alongside it. Neither the oil nor the incense does the work for you. They mark the working as set apart from ordinary time, and they give your attention something steady to rest on while you think. After the working, you can carry the seal with you, or wear it as a pendant, so that the focus of the working stays close at hand when the contest itself begins.
After the contest, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for each working: the date, the contest stated in one sentence, what you did with the seal, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Contests rarely resolve in a single moment, and a record lets you see whether the situation is actually moving, or whether you are simply reliving the same argument with new details. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the statement was unclear, the approach was wrong, or the situation needs a different kind of action altogether.
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. Strength includes knowing when a contest is over, and when continuing it costs more than it is worth. A seal kept and used with that kind of judgement is a tool. A seal clutched through every disagreement, without reflection, is only a habit.
Marchosias cast seal pendant, 1 inch
A seal for Marchosias should be a seal, not a picture of one, and this one is made to be carried and worked with.
I make these as lost wax cast seals, cast from a wax version in pure metal, one at a time, and I bless each one myself before it is sent out. This one is Marchosias, as a pendant, 1 inch, made for traditional Goetia work with Marchosias, to be held, placed under a candle, anointed with oil, carried, worn as a pendant, or shown to the person the working concerns. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.
If you want a Marchosias seal made in this way, this is the one I offer: Marchosias cast Daemon Demon seal pendant, 1 inch, $108 CAD. View the product
I also make the oil and the incense to go with it, for the same work: Marchosias Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, and Marchosias Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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