Working with Sitri: love, attraction, and an oil made for anointing
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 an oil, and why this kind of oil
An oil is a working tool for anointing. That is its nature, and it is different from incense, from a bath, and from a seal. Incense fills a room. A bath prepares a person. A seal is carried. An oil goes onto a thing, onto a person, onto a seal, onto a candle, deliberately, drop by drop, with the purpose named as it is applied. For love and attraction work, that deliberateness matters. Anointing is a slow act. It forces you to say what you are doing, while you are doing it, instead of rushing past the moment.
I hand make all of my own perfumes, colognes and oils from only pure essential oils, roots and herbs. Sometimes there is the odd gemstone thrown in as well. I do not use any extraneous ingredients or fillers, and I do not use any synthetics. Pure essential oils, roots, and herbs, made by hand in small batches, are a different proposition from a synthetic fragrance oil dressed up with a spirit's name.
All colognes, perfumes and oils are in a half-ounce bottle, about twice as large as those little health food store essential oil bottles, unless otherwise stated. A half-ounce bottle lasts a working practitioner a good while, because anointing uses drops, not pours. A little, applied deliberately, is the whole method. If you find yourself pouring oil freely, slow down. The work is in the attention, not in the volume.
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 or wash, 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 bath made for Sitri work can be part of that preparation, and Sitri has a matching bath, at $44 CAD, made from pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics. Bathing before a working is not vanity. It is a way of marking the boundary between ordinary hours and working hours.
Set out what you will anoint before you begin: the seal, the candle, or whatever the working calls for. Have the oil open and ready, so that you are not fumbling with a cap in the middle of a petition. Small practical details like that are what keep a working steady.
Anointing: how an oil is actually used
Anointing is done deliberately. Put a small amount of oil on your fingers, or directly onto the thing being anointed, and name the purpose in your own words as you do it. If you are anointing a Sitri seal, hold the seal, put oil on it, and let the act itself be part of the petition. If you are anointing a candle, dress the candle from the centre outward or from the ends toward the centre, according to your own practice, and keep the purpose in mind through the whole act rather than only at the start.
Anointing yourself is also part of this work, where your practice calls for it. A drop on the wrists, behind the ears, or at the brow, applied with attention, is a way of marking yourself for the working. Do not overdo it. Oil is not perfume for a night out, and a working is not improved by being stronger smelling. A little, applied with a clear purpose, is the method.
Do not use an oil as a substitute for the rest of the working. Anointing a seal and then doing nothing else, with no petition, no attention, and no closing, is not spirit work. The oil supports the work, it does not replace it. Likewise, do not anoint another person without their knowledge or willingness in a context where that would be a violation of trust. The reflection here is practical: be specific about what you want, and be honest about how you are going about getting it, because the record you keep afterwards will show you the difference between a working done cleanly and one done carelessly.
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, prepare the room and yourself, as above. Second, set out the seal, candle, or other tools, and the oil. Third, anoint what the working calls for, 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 oil in that record: what you anointed, when, and what you noticed on days when you carried the anointed seal compared with days when you did 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 handmade oil
Care for a handmade oil is practical. Keep the bottle upright, capped, and away from heat and direct sunlight, which degrade essential oils. Keep it away from other strong scents, and do not leave it open. A half-ounce bottle, used by drops, should last through many workings, and if it begins to smell flat or changed, that is a sign it has aged past its best, not a sign of anything mystical. Replace it when that happens, rather than working with an oil you no longer trust.
Do not apply an oil to skin without knowing how your skin reacts to it. Test a small amount first, on a small area, and wait. Pure essential oils are strong things, and a working that leaves you irritated or distracted has not been helped by the oil. That is a practical point, but it is also a working point: a practitioner who cannot focus because of discomfort cannot focus on the petition either.
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, 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 grimoire demon evocation oil
An oil is a working tool for anointing, and this one is made for Sitri.
I hand make all of my own oils from only pure essential oils, roots and herbs, with no extraneous ingredients or fillers and no synthetics, sometimes with a gemstone added. This one is Sitri, for anointing and spirit work with Sitri, in a half-ounce bottle unless otherwise stated. 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 oil made in this way, this is the one I offer: Sitri Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD. View the product
Sitri also has a matching incense, at $44 CAD, for spirit work and spellwork with Sitri, made in small batches when you order. Oil and incense work together in a working: the oil anoints, the incense fumigates, and a seal that is both anointed and fumigated is prepared in both ways, not only one.
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