How to Summon Asmodeus: Sigil, Enn, Powers & Full Ritual
Asmodeus, also written Asmoday or Asmodai, is one of the most layered spirits in Western demonology. Long before the Ars Goetia, he appears in the Book of Tobit tradition as a destructive spirit connected with desire and jealousy. In the Testament of Solomon, he is bound and questioned by Solomon. In the later Ars Goetia, Asmoday becomes a Great King whose offices include arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, handicrafts, truthful answers, invincibility and hidden treasure.
That history is why I do not reduce Asmodeus to a one-line label such as “the demon of lust.” Lust is part of his current, but the deeper theme is desire under pressure: appetite, ambition, obsession, confidence, mastery and the question of whether the magician commands desire or is commanded by it.
When I summon Asmodeus, I want the ritual to reflect that tension. The main operation below is therefore built around desire, command and self-mastery rather than a simplistic attraction spell.
Who Is Asmodeus?
The oldest major literary layer is the Book of Tobit, where Asmodeus is the demon who kills Sarah’s successive husbands before the marriage can be consummated. Later Jewish and Christian traditions expand his identity, and scholars have often connected the name with the Persian demon Aeshma. The exact line of development is debated, but the connection between Asmodeus and destructive passion is much older than the Goetic grimoires.
The Testament of Solomon gives us another important layer. Asmodeus appears before Solomon with anger and pride, identifies himself with a celestial origin, and is questioned about the force that can restrain him. This text helped cement his place in the wider Solomonic demonological tradition.
By the time we reach Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the later Ars Goetia, Asmoday is presented as a Great King under Amaymon, commanding seventy-two legions and possessing a very different set of practical offices.
Asmodeus in the Ars Goetia
The Goetic Asmoday appears with three heads, those of a bull, a man and a ram, with a serpent’s tail, fiery breath and webbed feet. He rides an infernal dragon and carries a lance with a banner.
His powers are broader than the popular “lust demon” image suggests. The Goetia credits him with teaching arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts, giving true answers, revealing and guarding treasure, granting a Ring of Virtues and making a person invincible.
| Traditional office | How I use it in practice |
|---|---|
| Arithmetic, astronomy and geometry | Technical study, calculation, pattern recognition and disciplines where precision matters |
| Handicrafts | Skill, making, design, construction and practical competence |
| True and full answers | Divination, strategic questions and situations where the magician needs a direct answer rather than encouragement |
| Invincibility | Confidence under pressure, dominance over fear and the ability to remain composed when challenged |
| Hidden treasure | Material opportunity, concealed value and resources that require bold action to claim or protect |
Why Is Asmodeus Associated With Lust?
The lust association does not come from nowhere. In Tobit, Asmodeus is attached to Sarah so possessively that he kills the men who marry her. Later literature turns that destructive attachment into a broader association with lust, jealousy, appetite and unrestrained desire.
In practice, I find this current more useful when it is interpreted as command over desire. That can include consensual attraction and sexual confidence, but it also includes ambition, competitiveness, appetite for status and the ability to stop desire from becoming compulsion.
This matters because lust without command is weakness. A magician who is ruled by every impulse is not powerful simply because the impulses are intense.
What I Ask Asmodeus For
I call Asmodeus when the objective involves strong desire and the need to direct it rather than suppress it. That can mean intensifying attraction in a consensual relationship, increasing confidence and presence, recovering passion after a period of stagnation, or turning restless appetite into ambition that actually produces something.
I also use him for situations involving boldness and pressure. The Goetic office of invincibility fits this extremely well. I do not interpret it as literal physical immortality. I read it as the current of a person who does not collapse when the stakes rise.
For technical study, geometry, arithmetic or craftsmanship, Asmodeus can be approached through a more intellectual operation. If the primary goal is learning rather than appetite or command, however, Vapula may be a cleaner fit.
Asmodeus’s Sigil
The Goetic seal of Asmoday is the main spirit-link I use in formal evocation. The Ars Goetia explicitly instructs the magician to wear the spirit’s seal as a lamen.
In my own ritual structure, I place the seal inside the manifestation triangle before the black mirror. If I am consecrating a ring or other talisman during the operation, I place that object directly across the seal during the main contact.
For a broader historical and symbolic profile of the spirit, see my separate Asmodeus demon profile. I keep this page focused on the actual summoning operation.
Asmodeus’s Enn
A modern enn commonly used for Asmodeus is:
Ayer avage aloren Asmoday aken.
This formula is modern and does not come from Tobit, Weyer or the Ars Goetia. It belongs to modern demonolatry practice. Contemporary practitioners widely use it for attunement and invocation.
I use the enn as an opening current rather than a magical password. Once the atmosphere becomes distinct and the mirror or sigil begins to feel visually active, I stop chanting and move into direct contact.
Offerings to Asmodeus
The old Goetic text does not provide a universal devotional offering list. Modern practitioners use many correspondences, but I choose offerings according to the kind of working being performed.
| Offering | When I use it |
|---|---|
| Dark red wine | Formal workings involving desire, ambition, confidence or a pact-like long-term relationship |
| Frankincense and dragon’s blood incense | Major evocations where I want a forceful, martial atmosphere |
| A completed act of discipline | Workings focused on mastery of appetite, training, confidence or ambition |
| A crafted object | Technical, artistic or handicraft work that draws on his Goetic teaching office |
| Spiced tea or strong coffee | Shorter recurring devotional contact rather than a major ceremonial operation |
Planetary Currents I Use With Asmodeus
The older Goetic sources do not give us one fixed planetary correspondence for Asmodeus. Modern systems disagree widely, which is exactly why I do not present one later assignment as ancient fact.
I use planetary forces according to the goal. Venus supports attraction, sensuality and consensual relationship work. Mars strengthens appetite, courage and force of action. The Sun supports sovereignty, status and command over the self. Mercury is appropriate when I am using Asmodeus for mathematics, geometry or technical study.
The planet supports the operation. It does not replace Asmodeus’s own current.
Crystals I Use With Asmodeus
Crystals are modern ritual tools here, not requirements from the grimoires. I use garnet for controlled desire and determination, carnelian for active confidence, obsidian for confronting compulsive or self-defeating appetite, and clear quartz to hold the central intention of the ritual.
In a major operation I give each stone a defined position in the ritual geometry. They are not scattered around the altar as decoration.
Attuning to Asmodeus
For a short attunement, place Asmodeus’s sigil before a black mirror and set a metal ring across the seal. Light one deep red candle and burn frankincense.
Enter trance and repeat:
Ayer avage aloren Asmoday aken.
When the atmosphere changes, stop. Hold the ring and ask one question:
What desire is currently ruling me more than I am ruling it?
Do not ask for a result immediately. Learn what Asmodeus exposes about appetite first. The answer is often more useful than a generic request for “power.”
How to Summon Asmodeus: The Crimson Throne Ritual
This is the full ceremonial operation I use when the objective concerns desire, confidence, ambition, passion or command over appetite. It is deliberately more elaborate than the attunement because Asmodeus is a King, and because the operation is designed to separate raw desire from disciplined will before they are brought back together.
The ritual is not a spell for overriding another person’s consent. If the goal involves attraction, I frame it around mutual desire, confidence, presence and the opening of favorable conditions rather than forcing a specific person into sexual or romantic compliance.
Ritual Implements
You will need Asmodeus’s sigil, a black mirror, an athame, a staff or wand, a bell, a metal ring, a small iron key, black cord, a red cord, a bowl of clean water, an offering cup, a charcoal burner, a strip of red cloth, four candles, four crystals and one object representing the desire you are trying to master or manifest.
Use a black candle for uncontrolled appetite, a deep red candle for passion and force, a gold candle for sovereignty, and a white candle for conscious command.
For the crystal field use garnet, carnelian, obsidian and clear quartz. Burn frankincense with a smaller amount of dragon’s blood resin or another strong resinous incense you already work with safely.
The desire-object should be symbolic rather than theatrical. For a professional ambition it might be a business object or tool. For physical training it could be a piece of training equipment. For relationship work it can be a neutral symbol of intimacy or partnership rather than an object taken from another person without permission.
Prepare the Two Cords
Wrap the black cord around the desire-object and tie four knots. These represent compulsion, fear, excess and self-deception.
Keep the red cord loose beside it. The red cord will later become the controlled current through which desire is directed rather than suppressed.
Construct the Circle and Throne Triangle
Mark a ritual circle with salt and place the black candle at the western edge. Place the gold candle at the eastern edge.
Before the circle, mark a manifestation triangle large enough to contain the black mirror, sigil and crystal field.
Place the black mirror at the rear of the triangle and Asmodeus’s sigil in front of it. Set clear quartz at the center, garnet to the left, carnelian to the right and obsidian at the point nearest you.
Lay the metal ring over the sigil. Place the iron key beside the clear quartz.
Set the deep red candle behind the mirror and the white candle between yourself and the triangle.
Raise the Crimson Standard
Tie the strip of red cloth to the top of the staff or wand so that it hangs like a small banner. This deliberately echoes Asmoday’s Goetic image carrying a lance with a banner.
Ring the bell once and stand upright inside the circle. The older Goetic instructions emphasize standing during the operation. I preserve that symbolism because the posture itself reinforces command.
Hold the staff vertically and state the objective in one sentence. Do not explain your entire life story. Name the desire clearly enough that the ritual can distinguish it from general restlessness.
Light the Four Fires
Light the black candle first and state what part of the desire has become uncontrolled, wasteful or compulsive.
Light the deep red candle and state what you still want preserved: passion, hunger, sexuality, ambition, courage or momentum.
Light the gold candle and state that the desire is being brought under sovereignty rather than extinguished.
Light the white candle last. State the measurable outcome you want the operation to produce.
Consecrate the Ring
Take the metal ring from the sigil and pass it through the incense smoke.
Touch the ring to garnet, carnelian, obsidian and clear quartz. With each contact speak the function you are assigning: Desire. Action. Truth. Command.
Put the ring on your dominant hand. The Goetic Asmoday is associated with the Ring of Virtues, so I use the ring here as the material anchor of controlled appetite and personal authority.
Open the First Knot: Compulsion
Take the desire-object and undo the first black knot.
Speak plainly about the behavior or pattern that has become compulsive. Do not romanticize it simply because the ritual concerns Asmodeus.
Place the freed piece of cord beside the obsidian.
Call Asmodeus
Face the mirror and begin the enn:
Ayer avage aloren Asmoday aken.
Let the chant continue until the seal becomes visually unstable or the mirror begins to feel deeper than ordinary reflection. Then stop.
Raise the athame and trace Asmodeus’s sigil once in the air above the manifestation triangle.
Speak:
Asmodeus, Asmoday, Great King beneath Amaymon, I call you into the Crimson Throne I have prepared. Come through your seal and stand before me in a form I can perceive and understand. Show me the true shape of this desire. Strip away weakness without extinguishing fire. Let appetite become command, passion become force, and force become something I can direct.
Lower the athame and strike the floor once with the base of the staff.
Remain silent until the presence stabilizes.
Open the Second Knot: Fear
Undo the second black knot.
Ask Asmodeus what fear is weakening the desire. Sometimes the magician wants something intensely but also fears the consequences of actually possessing it.
Look into the black mirror and receive the answer before speaking again.
Place the second piece of cord beside the garnet.
The Mirror of Appetite
Hold the desire-object before the black mirror and ask:
If I receive what I am asking for, what part of me must become stronger in order to hold it?
This is the main scrying phase of the rite.
Do not only watch for visual imagery. Pay attention to sudden recognition, uncomfortable memories, specific behavioral changes or the appearance of a standard you know you have been avoiding.
When the answer becomes clear enough, state it aloud.
Open the Third Knot: Excess
Undo the third black knot.
Dip your fingers lightly into the bowl of water and touch the desire-object. The water cools excess without extinguishing the underlying current.
Then move the object once through the incense and hold it above the deep red candle without bringing it dangerously close to the flame.
The sequence joins cooling and fire deliberately. Asmodeus work is strongest when the magician can retain heat without losing measure.
The Trial of Action
Place the desire-object back on the altar. Take the iron key and hold it in your dominant hand.
Ask Asmodeus:
What action would prove that I want this enough to become capable of holding it?
Receive one concrete instruction.
This should be something that can be done in ordinary life: make the difficult call, train consistently, finish the work, stop feeding a destructive habit, state a boundary, improve appearance or social presence, or take another action directly related to the objective.
Place the key on the written or symbolic center of the desire-object.
Open the Fourth Knot: Self-Deception
Undo the final black knot.
Ask:
What am I pretending not to know about this desire?
Stay with the question longer than the others. The purpose of the final knot is not to make the ritual dramatic. It is to expose the hidden bargain the magician has been making with himself.
Place all four pieces of black cord into the bowl of water.
Bind Desire Under Command
Now take the red cord.
Wrap it once around the desire-object and make one firm knot. This knot represents desire that has been chosen rather than desire that has taken control.
Hold the object above the clear quartz and speak the measurable result again.
Then touch the object to garnet, carnelian, obsidian and clear quartz. The sequence moves from desire into action, through truth, and finally into command.
Consecrate the Crimson Standard
Take the staff with the red banner and make one clockwise circuit around the inside of the circle.
As you move, state the qualities you are claiming for yourself through the operation. Do not recite a generic list. Name the qualities the ritual has actually exposed as necessary.
Return to the altar and plant the base of the staff firmly on the floor.
Speak:
Asmodeus, let desire answer to command. Let passion serve purpose. Let what burns within me become strong enough to move the world around me without consuming the one who carries it.
The Ring of Virtue
Remove the metal ring and place it directly over Asmodeus’s seal.
Hold the athame above it and trace one circle clockwise around the ring.
Ask Asmodeus to charge the ring as a reminder of sovereignty over appetite and confidence under pressure.
After the ritual, I wear or carry this ring during actions directly related to the working. It is not treated as an all-purpose lucky charm.
Offer and Receive
Pour the wine or chosen offering into the cup and place it beside the manifestation triangle.
Raise the cup briefly toward the mirror and thank Asmodeus for the contact.
Ask one final question:
What must I refuse if I want this desire to remain under my command?
Receive the answer and do not immediately negotiate with it.
Ring the bell once when the communication feels complete.
Close the Crimson Throne
Give Asmodeus license to depart from the formal ritual space while the work already set in motion continues.
Extinguish the black candle first. Then extinguish the deep red candle, followed by the gold and white candles.
Remove the ring from the sigil and keep it with the key and desire-object. Dry the black cord before discarding or storing it away from the main working tools.
Keep the red cord on the desire-object until the measurable result has been reached or the operation is formally closed.
Within twenty-four hours, perform the action Asmodeus identified during the Trial of Action. A ritual about desire loses its authority if the magician immediately returns to passivity.
Using Asmodeus for Attraction and Passion
Asmodeus is one of the obvious spirits for passion, but I keep the target of the work clean. I do not structure the operation around overriding a specific person’s consent.
For attraction work, I ask for stronger presence, sexual confidence, mutual chemistry, opportunities to meet receptive partners, or renewed passion inside a relationship where both people actually want the connection.
This produces a more coherent working anyway. Desire is stronger when the external situation can support it rather than when the entire ritual is built around forcing resistance.
Using Asmodeus for Ambition and Confidence
The same current that intensifies lust can intensify ambition. I use Asmodeus when someone has desire but lacks the aggression, confidence or appetite required to pursue the goal with force.
The invincibility office from the Goetia becomes important here. The working is not about becoming reckless. It is about removing the habit of mentally losing before the confrontation has even begun.
This can be particularly useful for competitive work, public performance, negotiations, physical transformation and situations where hesitation is costing more than lack of knowledge.
Using Asmodeus for Knowledge and Technical Skill
The Goetic material explicitly gives Asmoday arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts. That should not be ignored merely because modern occult culture prefers the sexual image.
If I summon him for study, I change the planetary support toward Mercury, place the relevant books or tools on the altar, and replace the desire-object with the actual problem being solved.
The same ring can then be consecrated around technical confidence rather than sexual or social magnetism.
Is Asmodeus Dangerous?
Older literature certainly presents Asmodeus as dangerous. In Tobit he is attached to death, possessive desire and jealousy. In the Testament of Solomon he is angry, proud and hostile. Those layers should not simply be erased because modern demonolatry prefers a devotional relationship.
At the same time, repeating old warnings without understanding them is not useful either. In practical work the danger I pay most attention to is amplification. If a person already has poor control over obsession, rage, jealousy or compulsive appetite, an Asmodeus working should not be approached as permission to intensify those patterns.
The whole point of the Crimson Throne ritual is to establish the opposite relationship: heat under authority.
Asmodeus and Other Demons
Sitri is a cleaner choice when the work is narrowly about lust, attraction and seduction. Orobas is more useful when truth, reputation or protection from deception is central.
Astaroth overlaps with Asmodeus around knowledge but has a stronger current of hidden information and past-present-future revelation. Asmodeus becomes the better choice when knowledge must be joined with force, confidence or technical execution.
Final Thoughts on Summoning Asmodeus
Asmodeus is powerful precisely because the current is not gentle. Desire can build a life or ruin one. Ambition can create authority or become endless hunger. Passion can deepen a relationship or become obsession.
The magician’s task is not to become cold. It is to become capable of carrying more heat without losing command.
That is the Asmodeus current I consider most useful: not simple lust, but appetite disciplined into power.
If you want an Asmodeus working performed on your behalf, you can hire me to perform a custom ritual using a full ceremonial setup built around attraction, confidence, ambition, passion, self-mastery or another clearly defined objective.
