Working with Sitri: a bath that prepares the worker for love and attraction
Sitri, Prince of love and attraction
In the Goetia, Sitri is a Prince who kindles love and attraction between the sexes and reveals hidden secrets. That is blunt language, and it is worth reading plainly rather than smoothing it away. Sitri is not a spirit of vague affection or gentle fondness. He is a spirit of heat, of desire made visible, of attraction that stops being theoretical and becomes something a person acts on.
The second half of his office is just as important, and easier to miss: he reveals hidden secrets. Love work done without honesty tends to go wrong, not because the spirit failed, but because the practitioner did not know what they actually wanted, or what the other person actually wanted, or what would happen if the desire were granted exactly as asked. Secrets revealed can be uncomfortable. A desire examined honestly can change shape. Both are part of Sitri work, and a practitioner who wants only the heat without the honesty is asking for half the office.
Before any Sitri working, then, be specific about what you want. That is not a restriction placed on you from outside. It is practical advice. A vague petition for love can land anywhere, on anyone, in any form, and the result may be something you would not have chosen if you had said it plainly. Write down what you actually want, in one clear sentence, and read it back the next day. If it still reads true, you have a petition. If it embarrasses you, or frightens you, or sounds like someone else's wish, you have learned something important before spending anything or calling anyone.
Why a bath, and why baths prepare the worker
A bath is a preparation, not a performance. That distinction is the whole point of a magick bath, and it is why baths have a place in Goetia work alongside seals, oils, and incense. A seal is carried. An oil anoints. Incense fumigates. A bath washes the worker. It marks the boundary between ordinary hours and working hours, in the most physical way possible: you step into water, you are washed, and you step out changed, at least in the sense that you have deliberately set the day aside.
We only use one hundred percent pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. Pure roots and herbs, with sometimes essential oils, made for this work, are a different proposition from a synthetic bath product dressed up with a spirit's name.
That is worth noting, because it frames the bath as part of a working practice, not as a one-off purchase. A practitioner who works with baths regularly will come back to them, for different spirits and different purposes, and the bath for Sitri is one working in that larger practice.
For Sitri work in particular, the bath has a second meaning. Desire work is embodied work. It concerns how you present yourself, how you carry yourself, and how you are seen. Bathing with attention is a way of preparing the body as well as the mind, of stepping into the working clean, calm, and deliberate, rather than rushed and distracted. That preparation shows, in the working and afterwards.
How to use a magick bath
To use any of these baths, you simply add them to a pot of water, approximately one litre or so. If you do pour everything in, including the bits of herbs, just use either a strainer to get the chunks out after your bath, or one of those fish tank nets, or a bird catching net. That practical advice about straining is worth following. Herbs in bathwater are pleasant until they are in the drain, and a working that ends with a blocked drain has not ended well.
It is best to take each bath each day for three days in a row. That three-day pattern is important, and it should not be collapsed into a single long bath on the grounds that it is more efficient. Three days in a row builds a rhythm. The first day marks the beginning. The second day deepens it. The third day completes it. A working done over three days gives the practitioner time to notice changes, to dream, to think, and to let the petition settle, in a way a single hurried bath does not.
Take the bath with attention, not as an ordinary wash. Set the time aside. Do not rush it to fit between errands. Wash, pour the prepared bath water over yourself, or soak in it, according to your own practice, and keep the purpose in mind through the whole act rather than only at the start. Afterwards, dry off, dress in clean clothes, and go about the working, or the rest of the day, with the boundary marked.
Preparing to work with Sitri
Preparation for Sitri work starts with the honesty described above. Be clear about who is involved, what you actually want between you, and what you are prepared to accept if the desire is granted. Consider also what you are prepared to do yourself. If you are unwilling to speak, to show up, to be seen, or to accept an answer you did not hope for, name that unwillingness before the working, not after it.
Prepare the room and yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: clear the space, set it aside for this purpose, bathe, as above, change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands, and know what you are going to say, in your own words, before you begin. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as a seal, oil, or incense is.
Set out what you will use after the bath before you begin: the seal, the oil, the candle, or whatever the working calls for. Sitri has a matching oil and a matching incense, each at $44 CAD, and a bath that prepares the worker pairs naturally with tools that prepare the working space and the seal. Have them ready, so that you are not fumbling for them in the middle of a petition.
A simple working order, to adapt to your own practice
The following is a general order, not a fixed script. Adapt it to the system you already work in. First, take the bath, each day for three days in a row, with attention, as above. Second, prepare the room and yourself, and set out any seal, oil, incense, or candle you will use. Third, anoint or fumigate the seal or tools, if your practice calls for it, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words. Fourth, speak your petition, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Fifth, sit quietly for a time and listen, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the tools away in their proper place.
Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed. Not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened, in plain language. Note the bath in that record: which days you took it, how you felt afterwards, and what you noticed on days when you had bathed compared with days when you had not. Love work in particular needs a record kept over weeks, not judged on a single night, because attraction, like any human matter, moves at its own pace.
Care and storage for a bath preparation
Care for a bath preparation is practical. Keep it dry, sealed, and away from heat and damp until you use it, so that the roots and herbs stay as made. Use it within a reasonable time, and if it smells flat or changed, that is a sign it has aged past its best. Do not use a bath preparation on broken skin, and test how your skin reacts to a new preparation before soaking in it at length. Pure roots, herbs, and essential oils are strong things, and a working that leaves you irritated or distracted has not been helped by the bath.
A working space left clean is a working space ready for the next working, and a drain left full of herbs is a practical problem that will distract from whatever the working revealed.
Knowing when to stop, and when to work again
Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, over three days, 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.
With Sitri, this has a particular shape. If nothing changes, it may mean the petition was unclear, the desire itself has changed, the other person's will is simply not moving in that direction, or the situation needs a different approach. Let the record, kept over days and weeks, tell you which of those is true, rather than deciding on the night itself. And if a secret is revealed in the course of the work, something you did not know about yourself or about the situation, take that seriously. That revelation may be the real result of the working, even if it is not the result you asked for.
Sitri Goetia bath
A bath is a preparation, not a performance, and this one is made for Sitri.
I make these baths from only one hundred percent pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics. This one is Sitri, for a magick bath for work with Sitri, to be taken each day for three days in a row, prepared by adding it to a pot of water, approximately one litre or so, and straining the herbs out afterwards. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work.
If you want a Sitri bath made in this way, this is the one I offer: Sitri Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product
Sitri also has a matching oil and a matching incense, each at $44 CAD, for spirit work and spellwork with Sitri. A bath that prepares the worker, an oil that anoints, and incense that fumigates belong together in a working: one prepares the person, one prepares the seal or candle, and one prepares the place.
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