Working with Vual: a bath for love, true answers, and foes turned friends
Vual, and what this bath is for
Vual is entered in the Grimoire Companion notes as a Duke who procures love, tells past, present, and future, and turns foes into friends. That is a distinctive combination, and it tells you what kind of work this bath belongs to before you run any water. It is work about love, about true answers, and about a relationship that is currently set against you changing into something else.
Love, in this context, is not a single thing, and it should not be treated as one. Love can mean attraction, affection, commitment, reconciliation, or a relationship that is already there and needs to be held steady. Those are different petitions, and they should not be blurred together. Before you bathe, be clear which one you mean, and be clear about who is involved, and what you are actually asking to change.
True answers belong with love work more closely than people often admit. A question about a relationship, about whether it is real, about what happened in the past, about where it stands now, or about where it is going, needs a true answer, not a comforting one. A true answer can be unwelcome, and it can change what you thought you were going to do next. That is the point of asking for one, and it is also why the question you ask matters as much as the answer you receive.
Turning foes into friends is the third part of the office, and it pairs naturally with the other two. A relationship that has become hostile, cold, or stuck does not usually change because one person wishes it would. It changes when something in the situation changes: a misunderstanding cleared, a truth spoken plainly, a boundary held fairly, a gesture made in good faith. Be clear with yourself about which change you are actually asking for, because the petition, and the way you carry yourself afterwards, will be different for each.
Starting with the work, not with the tool
Spirit work is not shopping, and a bath does not do the work for you. Before you bathe, be clear about the matter in hand, in one sentence. Who is involved, what is the situation, and what change are you asking for? If you cannot state it in one sentence, write it down, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. That pause is part of the work, not a delay in it.
It is also worth asking, honestly, whether there is ordinary-world work that belongs first, or alongside. A conversation that needs having, a letter that needs writing, a truth that needs telling plainly: ritual work does not replace those things, and it works best when it accompanies them, giving you the steadiness and clarity to do them well. If you are working with Vual on a matter of love or reconciliation, the way you speak and act afterwards is part of the working, not something that happens after the working is over.
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.
Why a bath, and why this bath
A bath is a different kind of preparation from anointing or incense, because it involves the whole body, and because it takes time. You cannot rush a bath in the way you can rush a single gesture. You have to prepare the water, get in, stay in it, and then get out and dry off, and that whole sequence marks the time as set apart in a way a quick act does not.
Bathing before spirit work is also a cleansing in the plain sense: washing off the day, the errands, the conversations, and the dust of ordinary life, so that you enter the working clean, in body and in attention. That is not a metaphor that needs elaborate explanation. Anyone who has bathed before an important occasion knows the feeling of starting fresh, and that feeling is part of what the bath is for.
The Vual bath offered here is made from 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. That matters in practice, not as a luxury, but as a matter of attention: a bath made from real materials, in a small batch, for this specific work, is a different thing in the water from a scented product made for general use. You will notice the difference when you open it, and you will notice it again in the bath itself.
How to use the bath
To use any of the baths offered here, you simply add them to a pot of water, approximately 1 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 instruction is worth following literally, because it is practical as well as ritual. Herbs in bath water will clog a drain if they are left to go down it, and they will stick to skin and to the bath itself if they are not strained out. Straining is not a distraction from the working. It is part of doing the working properly, in an ordinary bathroom, with ordinary plumbing, and it keeps the rest of the practice clean and workable.
It is best to take each bath each day for 3 days in a row. That three-day sequence matters, and it should not be collapsed into a single long bath, or spread out over weeks until it loses its shape. Three days in a row gives the work a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it gives you three separate occasions to hold the same purpose in mind, to notice what changes, and to let the work settle. Plan the three days in advance, so you are not scrambling for time on the second or third day, and so the sequence can be kept cleanly.
Prepare the room as well as the water. Clear the bathroom, or the space where you will bathe, set aside the time so you will not be interrupted, and have towels, the strainer, and anything else you need ready before you begin. A bath taken in a hurry, with the phone ringing and someone knocking, is not the same working as a bath taken in a set-apart time, and the difference will show in the record you keep afterwards.
Preparing yourself
Prepare yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: wash, change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands afterwards, if your practice calls for it, and know what you are going to say, in your own words, before you begin. A petition that tries to cover every possible outcome usually covers none of them well. Keep it direct, keep it honest, and keep it to the matter at hand.
For Vual work, that means being specific about love, about the question you want answered truly, or about the foe you hope to see become a friend. Vague work tends to produce vague results, and vague results are hard to read afterwards. If the matter involves another person, be specific about what you are asking to change in the relationship, and what you are prepared to do yourself, in ordinary life, to bring that change about.
After the bath, do not immediately rush back into ordinary errands. Dry off, dress, sit quietly for a time, and let the working settle. Then write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed, in plain language. That record, kept over the three days, is what lets you tell, afterwards, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.
Oil and incense to go with the bath
A bath is often used as preparation for a fuller working, rather than as the whole working on its own, and Vual work is no exception. The bath cleanses and prepares. Oil marks and anoints. Incense fills the space and sets the atmosphere for the working itself. They do different jobs, and they reinforce each other when they are used together with a clear purpose.
Vual also has a matching oil and a matching incense, both for spirit work and spellwork with Vual, made in small batches when you order. If you are doing a full working, bathe first, over the three days, then anoint, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words, and light the incense and let the room settle before you speak your petition. Do not rush from one step to the next. Give each step its own time, and give yourself a moment to notice each change.
If you are only bathing, without a fuller working to follow, that is also a recognised use: a bath as preparation, as cleansing, and as a working in its own right, done over three days, with a clear purpose held throughout. Do that bathing deliberately, too, holding the purpose in mind through the whole bath, rather than treating it as an ordinary wash with something added to the water.
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, and to the instructions you already follow for Goetia work. First, prepare the room, the water, and yourself, as above. Second, prepare the bath, adding it to approximately 1 litre of water, and straining out herb pieces afterwards. Third, bathe, holding the purpose in mind, on each of the three days. Fourth, if you are doing a fuller working, anoint and light incense after bathing, and 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.
Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Note the bath itself in that record: how the water behaved, how the three days felt, what you noticed on each day compared with the others. Those practical details are part of learning how to work with baths well, not a distraction from it.
Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, bath and any oil or incense used, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. For love work, note actual contact and actual conversation, not only feelings. For true answers, note the question you asked, the answer you received, and whether it proved true over time. For reconciliation, note whether the relationship is genuinely workable again, or only quieter for a time.
Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, over its 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.
Vual bath, and Vual oil and incense to go with it
If you are doing spirit work with Vual, the bath is for preparation and cleansing, not for show.
I make the Vual bath myself, from 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics, and I bless it myself before it is sent out. It is made for a magick bath for work with Vual, to be taken each day for 3 days in a row. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.
If you want the bath for that work, this is the one I offer: Vual Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product
I also make the oil and the incense to go with it, for the same work: Vual Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, and Vual Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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