Vual oil: love, true answers, and turning foes into friends
Starting with the work, not with the tool
An oil is not the working. It is a tool that belongs inside a working, and it is worth being clear about that before anything is bought, opened, or used. In Goetia work, oil marks, prepares, and focuses what is already being done. It does not stand in for preparation, for a clear request, or for the closing of a working. When those parts are missing, no oil fills the gap. When they are present, an oil made for a particular spirit can help the practitioner keep the work in one place, in mind and in body, rather than letting it scatter across half-finished preparations.
That distinction matters with Vual, because Vual's work, as the Grimoire Companion presents it, touches three areas that are easily confused with each other: love, true answers about past, present, and future, and reconciliation, in the form of turning foes into friends. A practitioner who approaches all three at once, with one vague petition, will find it hard to know what was asked, what was observed, and what, if anything, changed. A practitioner who approaches one area at a time, with a clear sentence for each working, will have a record that can actually be read afterwards.
This article is about Vual oil, for anointing and spirit work with Vual. It is not a manual for Goetia practice, and it is not a substitute for teaching in the system a practitioner already works in. It sets out who Vual is, in the Companion's terms, how anointing fits into such work, and how to use an oil made for Vual thoughtfully, in a way that can be adapted to a practitioner's own practice.
Vual, Duke, and his threefold work
In the Grimoire Companion's Goetia data, Vual is a Duke, commanding thirty-seven legions, whose work is summarised as procuring love, telling past, present, and future, and turning foes into friends. Each part of that summary deserves attention on its own, because each points to a different kind of working, and a different kind of honesty afterwards.
Procuring love, in this context, is not a vague wish to be liked. It is work addressed to affection between people, and it asks the practitioner to be specific about what kind of love is meant. Reflection about being specific about what you want is essential here: is the love sought a new affection, a deepening of an existing bond, a return of warmth that has cooled, or a general opening to affection in a life that has become closed to it? Each of those is a different petition, and each will be judged differently afterwards. A general article cannot choose among them for the practitioner. Only the practitioner, in writing, before the working, can.
Telling past, present, and future is divination, and divination has its own discipline. A true answer, in the Companion's phrase, is not necessarily a comfortable answer, and it is not necessarily the answer hoped for. A practitioner who asks Vual for a true answer should be prepared to receive one that complicates a plan, that reveals a past matter that still shapes the present, or that points to a future that requires a decision rather than a wish. Asking for truth while only being willing to hear comfort is not divination. It is reassurance-seeking, and it muddies both the working and the record.
Turning foes into friends is reconciliation, and reconciliation is the most practical of Vual's three areas, in the sense that its results show in ordinary life: a conversation that becomes possible again, a grudge that softens, a working relationship that can proceed without constant friction. It is also the area where the practitioner's own conduct matters most. A working for reconciliation, followed by no change in how the practitioner speaks, listens, or keeps promises towards the other person, is unlikely to show much, whatever the oil used. The oil supports the working. It does not replace the practitioner's part in the reconciliation.
How the Vual oil is made here
The oils are in a half-ounce bottle, about twice as large as the small essential oil bottles found in health food stores, unless otherwise stated. That account is worth reading as a claim about method: an oil compounded for a spirit, from natural materials, made when ordered, rather than blended generically and labelled afterwards.
Made when ordered also means the oil is fresh to the working, in a way a long-stored, mass-produced oil is not. A practitioner who orders an oil for a particular working, and receives it made for that order, can treat its arrival as part of the preparation: a moment to clarify the petition, to prepare the space, and to decide which of Vual's areas the working is actually for, before the bottle is opened. That preparation is not wasted time. It is the working, in its early form.
What matters for the practitioner is the principle: the oil is specific to Vual, it is handmade from pure essential oils, roots, and herbs, and it should be used specifically, for Vual work, rather than borrowed as a general anointing oil for unrelated workings. Keeping it for its purpose keeps the record clear, and keeps the working honest.
Why anointing, and why oil at all
Anointing is a way of marking something, or someone, for a purpose. Oil stays where it is put. It has scent, it has touch, and it lasts through the first part of a working in a way that a spoken word alone does not. When a practitioner anoints a candle, a seal, a petition paper, or their own forehead, wrist, or hands, the act itself slows the working down. It forces a pause, a deliberate gesture, and a moment in which the purpose can be named in plain words before anything further is said or done.
That pause is the real value of anointing, and it is especially valuable in Vual work, where the petition can easily become tangled. A working for love, for a true answer, and for reconciliation, all at once, spoken in a rush, will feel tangled afterwards, and its record will read tangled too. Anointing gives the working a threshold: before this gesture, preparation; after it, the working proper, for one purpose, named once, clearly. It also gives the practitioner something to return to in memory. Days later, the scent of the oil can bring back the purpose, the wording, and the state of mind of the working, more sharply than a written note alone.
Oil also has a practical advantage for some parts of a working. It can be applied to a seal or a candle without scattering, it can be carried in a small bottle, and it can be used quietly, without smoke or a large setup. For a practitioner who works in a small space, or who needs to prepare tools before travelling to a working space, that practicality matters. It does not make oil better than incense in any absolute sense. It makes it the right tool for the parts of a working where a quiet, lasting, tactile mark is what is wanted.
Preparation is most of the work
Preparation for Vual work begins before the oil is opened. Choose one area for the working: love, a true answer, or reconciliation. State it in one clear sentence. Write the sentence down, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. A sentence that changes shape every time it is written down is not ready to be taken into a working, and a working that tries to cover all three areas at once, in one petition, should be divided into separate workings, each with its own sentence, its own anointing, and its own record.
Prepare the room and yourself as for any serious Goetia working: clear the space, set it aside for this purpose, bathe or wash, change into clothes not worn for ordinary errands, and know what is going to be said, in your own words, before beginning. Gather what will be used, including the oil, any candle, any seal of Vual, and any petition, before the working starts, so that nothing has to be hunted for halfway through. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as oil, incense, or a candle is.
It is also worth asking, plainly, whether spirit work is the right approach for the matter at all, and what the practitioner's own part in it will be. A matter of love or reconciliation that needs a conversation, an apology, or a change of conduct, needs those ordinary steps as well as any working. A matter of divination that needs a decision, once the answer is received, needs the decision to be made, rather than another working to ask the same question again. The oil cannot make those judgements. Only the practitioner can.
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 already worked in. First, prepare the room and yourself, as above, with one clear sentence for the working. Second, set out the oil and anything else that will be used, including a seal of Vual if one is worked with. Third, anoint deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words: a candle dressed for the working, a seal, a petition, or the practitioner's own hands or forehead, according to the practice followed. Fourth, speak the 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 the practice requires, and put the oil and tools away in their proper place.
Afterwards, write down what was done, when it was done, and what was noticed. Not what was hoped would happen, but what actually happened, in plain language, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. For love, note warmth, attention, and company, in ordinary terms. For divination, note the answer as received, whether it was welcome or not, and what decision followed from it. For reconciliation, note conversations, softening, and the practitioner's own conduct towards the other person. That record is what lets a practitioner tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.
Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result, and do not ask the same divination question repeatedly until a preferred answer appears. 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.
Care, storage, and the companion incense
Care for a handmade oil is practical. Keep the bottle upright, capped, and away from heat and direct light, and keep it in a clean place used for working tools, rather than in a bathroom cabinet or a pocket with keys and loose change. Keep it for Vual work alone, labelled, and separate from other spirit oils, so that the record stays clear and the working stays specific. If the oil changes in smell or appearance in a way that suggests it has turned, stop using it for working and replace it, rather than working with a tool that distracts attention every time it is opened.
Oil and incense go together in Goetia work in a complementary way: oil for the quiet, lasting mark, incense for fumigating the space, the tools, and the seal, and for opening a working with smoke and scent. Vual also has a matching incense in the catalogue, made for the same work, and a practitioner who works with both will find the two practices support each other: anointing the candle or seal, fumigating the tools and the space, and then proceeding with the petition, with both senses engaged and the purpose named once, clearly, at the threshold of the working.
Finally, remember that an oil is consumed by use, and that is as it should be. A working tool that is never used, kept pristine on a shelf, is not being worked with. Use the oil deliberately, in workings that have been prepared for, with one clear purpose at a time, and let the bottle empty in the course of real work, rather than hoarding it for a perfect occasion that never arrives, or spending it on workings that were never properly prepared.
Vual Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, and Vual incense to go with it
An oil for Vual should be used for Vual work, one purpose at a time: love, a true answer, or turning a foe into a friend, named clearly before the working begins.
I hand make all of my own perfumes, colognes, and oils from only pure essential oils, roots, and herbs. I do not use any extraneous ingredients or fillers, and I do not use any synthetics. This oil is made in a half-ounce bottle, in small batches when you order, for anointing and spirit work with Vual. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work.
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I also make the incense to go with it, for the same work: Vual Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product
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