Occodon, Enochian governor seal: a pendant or disc for Enochian work
Who Occodon is
Enochian work is not a single working, and it is not a mood. It is a system with its own entities, its own seals, and its own temple furniture, handed down through the work of John Dee and Edward Kelly, and it asks for a different kind of attention than a general spell. When you take up an Enochian governor seal, you are taking up one named part of that system, not a generic symbol of protection or luck, and the work that follows should be as specific as the seal itself.
That number matters, because the governors are not interchangeable. Each governor belongs to a particular place in the Enochian scheme, and a practitioner who works with Occodon is working with that governor, by that seal, rather than with Enochian work in the abstract. If you do not already know where Occodon sits in the system you follow, that is the first study to do, before you order or wear anything.
Both words are worth holding on to. Entity reminds you that this is a named being in a system, not a decoration. Angel reminds you of the register in which Dee and Kelly received this material, a register of prayer, discipline, and careful record-keeping, rather than casual curiosity. Governor reminds you that the seal has a function in the Enochian order, a charge over a part of the whole, and that working with it is a matter of address, not of ownership.
Why a seal, and why this form of seal
A seal in Enochian practice is a working tool, not a picture of a tool. It is the form by which a governor is addressed, the surface on which the working is grounded, and the thing you return to each time you work, so that the work accumulates in one place rather than scattering across a dozen loose notes and half-remembered workings. A seal that lives on your altar, or around your neck, keeps the work in one place in a way that a printed page in a folder does not.
Either a 1 inch cast seal or a hand engraved 2 inch seal, it is your choice, and the seal can be made into a pendant, or left as a disc. A pendant travels with you, and suits work that is carried through the day. A disc stays on the altar, and suits work that is done in one place, at set times, with the seal laid out as part of the temple furniture.
Lost wax casting and hand engraving are also different crafts, and they feel different in the hand. A cast seal carries the clean, repeated form of the wax original. A hand engraved seal carries the marks of the hand that cut it, line by line, and the larger 2 inch size gives the engraving room to breathe. Neither is a shortcut. Both are made by hand, and both ask the same of the practitioner: that the seal be treated as a working tool, kept clean, kept in its proper place, and used for the purpose it was made for.
Preparing to work with a governor seal
Before you work with any governor seal, settle the question of purpose. What are you asking, and why Occodon, rather than another governor, or another kind of working altogether? Enochian work rewards precision, and a vague petition addressed to a specific governor is a mismatch that will show up later, when you try to read your notes and cannot tell what you actually asked. Write the purpose down in one clear sentence, and keep it with your record of the working.
Prepare the place as well as the purpose. If the seal is a disc, give it a set place on the altar, and keep that place for it. If it is a pendant, decide when you will wear it and when you will lay it aside, so that wearing it means something rather than becoming background. Clean the seal before first use, in whatever way your practice prescribes, and handle it as you would any consecrated tool, not as jewellery to be tossed in a drawer with other things.
Study before you speak. Enochian seals carry names, letters, and arrangements that mean something in the system, and a practitioner who cannot read the seal he is holding is working blind. Spend time with the seal itself, tracing its lines with your eye, learning its name, and reading the material you already follow for the governors, so that when you address Occodon, you know whom you are addressing and in what order of the system he stands.
Working with the seal, in general terms
The general ways of working with a seal apply here, adapted to your own Enochian practice. You may hold the seal in your hand while you pray or call, so that the work has a physical anchor. You may lay it on the altar as the focus of the working, with candles and any other temple furniture arranged around it. You may place it under a candle, so that the light of the working stands directly over the seal for the whole time you work.
If your practice uses oil, you may put oil on the seal, lightly and deliberately, as a way of dressing the tool for the work. If you wear the seal as a pendant, you may carry it with you through the day, as a reminder of the working and as a link to it, rather than as a display piece. The point in each case is the same: the seal is not an ornament that happens to be present, but the centre that the rest of the working is arranged around.
After the working, close properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the seal away in its proper place. Write down what you did, when you did it, what you asked, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not only on the night itself. Enochian work is long work, and a record is what turns a series of separate workings into a practice you can actually learn from.
Keeping the work honest
Do not treat a governor seal as a shortcut to results, and do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force an answer. Do the work properly, once, with a clear purpose, observe what follows, 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 it teaches you nothing about the governor or about your own practice.
Keep the seal itself in good order. A cast or engraved seal that is scratched, tarnished by neglect, or left among unrelated objects loses the association that makes it useful as a working tool. Clean it, store it apart from ordinary things, and inspect it before a working, so that you are not discovering damage in the middle of a rite. Care of the tool is part of care of the work.
If you are new to Enochian work, say so to yourself, and work at the level you are actually at. A governor seal is an advanced tool in a demanding system, and it is better to study the system properly and work slowly than to collect seals for governors you have not yet studied. The seal will still be there when your study has caught up with your ambition, and the work will be better for the wait.
The governors, and working within a system
The Enochian governors belong to a system, and a system is learned in order, not all at once. A practitioner who takes up one governor seal, without knowing how the governors relate to one another, or what part of the whole a single governor governs, is working with a fragment, and fragments are easily misunderstood. Study the scheme as a whole first, even briefly, so that Occodon's place in it is clear to you, and so that you can say, in your own words, why this governor, and not another, belongs to the working you have in mind.
That study also protects you from a common mistake in Enochian work, which is to treat every seal as if it did the same thing, only with a different name attached. The seals do not do the same thing. They address different governors, in different places in the system, and the working that is fitting for one governor may not be fitting for another. A record that names the governor, the seal, and the purpose, and that keeps those three together, is the simplest guard against that blurring, and it is a guard worth keeping from the very first working.
Work, finally, at the pace the system itself suggests. Enochian temple work is slow, formal, and repetitive in the best sense: the same table, the same furniture, the same forms, returned to again and again, until they are known by heart and by hand. A governor seal that is used in that rhythm, regularly and carefully, will teach you more about the governor, and about your own practice, than a seal that is used once, dramatically, and then forgotten. Patience, in this system, is not a virtue added on top of the work. It is the work itself, in its first and most necessary form.
A final word on choosing well: take time over the choice between a one inch cast seal and a two inch hand engraved seal, and between a pendant and a disc, because that choice will shape how you work with Occodon for years. A pendant you will actually wear, or a disc you will actually lay on your altar, is worth more than a grander option that ends up in a drawer. Choose the form that fits your life, your altar, and your practice, and then use it, regularly and carefully, so that the seal becomes, over time, not just a thing you own, but a tool you know.
The Occodon seal offered here
I offer this seal as a lost wax cast or hand engraved Occodon, Enochian entity or Angel, Governor seal. Either a 1 inch cast seal or a hand engraved 2 inch seal, it is your choice, and the seal can be made into a pendant, or left as a disc, as you prefer.
This is the one I offer: occodon enochian pendant 6, $108 CAD. View the product
I make no promise about what working with this seal will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this governor, and for Enochian work. That wording is about the magical result, not about delivery dates for a physical item.
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