Working with Vual: love, true answers, and foes turned to friends

Vual, and the three parts of his office

Vual is listed in the Grimoire Companion as a Duke, and his office has three parts: he procures love, he tells past, present, and future, and he turns foes into friends. Those three are often treated as separate wishes, but in practice they belong together, because they all concern how people stand toward one another. Love is closeness. True answers about past, present, and future are knowledge of how a relationship came to be, where it stands, and where it may go. Turning a foe into a friend is the repair of a relationship that has gone wrong. A working with Vual is, at root, a working about the bonds between people.

That is why this article keeps coming back to specificity. Before any working with Vual, be clear about which of the three you mean, and about who is involved. Love for whom, and of what kind? A question about what, and about which period of time? A foe in what sense: a rival, an estranged friend, a colleague, a family member? Those are different petitions, and a petition that blurs them together is hard to read afterwards.

Love, named plainly

Love, in Vual's office, is best approached plainly. It can mean attraction, affection, reconciliation, or a relationship that is already there and needs to be held steady, and those are not the same thing. Name the kind you mean, and name the person or the situation honestly, in your own words, before you begin. A vague love wish is hard to act on and hard to judge, and it invites the practitioner to read any small change afterwards as an answer.

Be specific about what you want, in the same way you would be specific about any serious matter. What would be different, in ordinary life, if the working bore fruit? Would two people speak again? Would a coldness ease? Would a new affection begin? Write that down in one sentence, and let that sentence be the measure you return to later, rather than a feeling you try to remember weeks afterwards.

Do the ordinary work alongside the ritual work. If a relationship needs an apology, a conversation, or a change in conduct, those things belong to the working as much as the ritual part does. A seal or a petition does not do the talking for you.

True answers about past, present, and future

The second part of Vual's office is divination in the full sense: telling past, present, and future. That is a wider claim than a single question answered on a single night, and it is worth treating with respect. A true answer about the past is an account of how things came to be. A true answer about the present is a clear sight of where things stand now, including the parts you would rather not see. A true answer about the future is a direction, not a fixed script, and a practitioner who treats it as fixed will misread it.

Before asking, decide what you will do with an answer you do not like. That is the real discipline of divination work. If you are only prepared to accept one answer, you are not asking a question; you are asking for confirmation. Sit with that honestly before you begin, and frame the question so that an unwelcome answer is still usable.

Keep a record of the question exactly as you asked it, the answer as you received it, and what happened afterwards, over days and weeks. That record is what turns divination from a memorable night into a practice you can learn from. Without it, memory will quietly rewrite both the question and the answer to fit whatever happened next.

Foes into friends

The third part of the office, turning foes into friends, is perhaps the most practical of the three, and the most easily sentimentalised. A foe is not always an enemy in the dramatic sense. Often it is a person with whom business, family, or daily life has become difficult: a colleague who blocks you, a neighbour with whom every exchange is strained, a relative with whom an old quarrel has never been settled. Turning such a person into a friend does not necessarily mean intimacy. It can mean ease, fair dealing, and the end of active hostility, and that is a substantial change in itself.

Be specific about what friendship would look like here. Would it mean speaking civilly? Working together without sabotage? A quarrel laid down? Name it, and be honest about your own part in the difficulty. A working that asks only for the other person to change, while you change nothing, is a weak petition, and practitioners who have done this work know it. Consider what you are prepared to change in your own conduct, and begin that change in ordinary life alongside the working.

Timing matters here too. A reconciliation working attempted in the heat of a fresh quarrel carries that heat into the work. A short pause, a clear head, and a petition written down and left overnight will serve the work better than urgency.

What a seal is, and what it is not

A seal is a figure belonging to a spirit, used as a focus and a link in the working. It is not a charm that works by itself while the practitioner does nothing, and it is not a substitute for the petition, the preparation, or the ordinary work that belongs to the matter. Think of it as the point where attention gathers: the thing you hold, look at, and return to while you work, so that the working has a centre rather than drifting.

The seals described here are lost wax cast seals of the Daemon Demons of the various grimoires. They are pure metal, actually cast, starting with a wax version, which is a much higher quality than the three-dimensional printed versions, using metal powder and plastic, found around the internet. That distinction matters, because a seal you will hold, wear, and work with for years should be made to last, and made properly, not printed as a novelty.

The seal can be had as a disc, and it can also be fitted with a bail, cast on or soldered on depending on the metal used, so that it can be used as a pendant. Gold, for example, cannot be cast in the same way for a bail, so the bail is soldered on. Those are the maker's practical decisions, made for the metal in hand, and they are part of what makes a hand cast seal different from a mass produced copy.

Working with the seal

There are several plain ways to work with a seal, and the right one depends on your practice and on the matter in hand. You can hold it during the working, so that the petition and the seal are together in your hands. You can put it under a candle, so that the working burns above it for its duration. You can put oil on it, anointing it deliberately, with the purpose in mind, rather than dabbing at it hurriedly. You can carry it with you, so that the working travels into ordinary life. You can wear it as a pendant, so that it is present through the day. Or, for Vual work in particular, you can show it to the desired person, where your practice and the situation make that fitting.

Whichever way you work, do it deliberately. Name the purpose in your own words, handle the seal with attention rather than haste, and then put it away in its proper place when the working is done. A seal left lying about with other clutter loses its character as a working tool, and a working that has no clear closing often has no clear shape either.

Do not use the seal as a substitute for the rest of the working. Holding a seal and doing nothing else, with no petition, no attention, and no closing, is not spirit work. The seal supports the work; it does not replace it.

Preparing yourself and the room

Prepare the room and yourself as you would for any serious working. Clear the space, set it aside for the purpose, and set out what you will need before you begin: the seal, a candle if your practice calls for one, oil if you are anointing, and incense if you are using it. Fumbling for a tool halfway through breaks the very attention the seal is meant to hold.

Bathe, or at least wash your hands and face, and change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands. This is not about looking a certain way for anyone else. It is about marking, for yourself, that this time is set apart. Avoid starting a working when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as a seal is.

Work from the instructions and teaching you already follow in the Goetia system. A general article like this one is not a substitute for proper teaching, and it should not be used to invent a purpose for a spirit you have not studied.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, what you did with the seal, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. If you asked a question, record the question and the answer exactly. If you sought a change in a relationship, record what actually changed, in ordinary terms: a conversation, a message, an easing, a new difficulty. That plain record is what lets you judge the work honestly.

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.

If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or simply that the situation needs a different approach. Sit with that plainly before deciding what to do next.

Vual cast seal pendant, 1 inch

A seal is the point where attention gathers in a working, not a charm that works while you do nothing.

I cast these seals myself, by the lost wax method, in pure metal, starting with a wax version. They are not three-dimensional printed copies. This one is Vual's seal, made as a pendant one inch across, fitted with a bail so it can be worn. I have been practising magic for twenty-five years, and I make these seals for traditional Goetia work with Vual: love, true answers about past, present, and future, and foes turned to friends. I make no promise about what a seal will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.

If you want the seal for that work, this is the one I offer: Vual cast Daemon Demon seal pendant, 1 inch, $108 CAD. View the product

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