How to Summon Sitri for Attraction, Lust and Desire
Sitri is one of the spirits I would consider when the objective is sexual attraction in its more immediate form. I do not regard him as simply another demon of love. His current is much more closely connected with desire becoming difficult to conceal, attraction gaining intensity and the usual restraints around sexual interest beginning to weaken.
That distinction is important because not every romantic problem is really a love problem. Sometimes there is already interest between two people, but neither person acts upon it. In other cases, someone is reasonably attractive but does not generate much sexual tension. There are also workings where no particular person is involved at all and the objective is simply to become more erotically noticeable in ordinary life.
Those are situations where Sitri becomes particularly interesting.
I have worked with Sitri myself, although the connection did not come easily at first. Several of my early attempts produced little that convinced me. I eventually discussed the problem with another magician who had experienced unusually strong results with Sitri, and I adapted part of his approach. One of the main changes was simply not releasing sexually for several days before the ritual.
The difference was substantial enough that I kept doing it.
I do not treat a particular number of days of abstinence as a law of Sitri. The point is simply to approach the ritual with some sexual tension already built up instead of treating a spirit of lust with the same detached concentration I might use for an intellectual or divinatory working. The ritual below uses that tension, but its structure comes mainly from something else in Sitri’s traditional description: his power not only to stir desire, but to expose what people normally keep hidden.
The ceremony is therefore built around bringing hidden attraction out into the open.
Sitri at a Glance
| Attribute | Sitri |
|---|---|
| Rank | Prince |
| Number | 12th spirit of the Ars Goetia |
| Legions | 60 |
| Older names | Sytry, Bitru, Bitur |
| Traditional powers | Inflaming sexual desire and exposing concealed intimate matters |
| Traditional appearance | Leopard-like face with griffin wings, later assuming a beautiful human form |
| Modern enn | Lirach alora vefa Sitri |
| Best reasons to work with Sitri | Sexual attraction, seduction, stronger magnetism, revealing mutual desire, erotic confidence |
| Less suitable for | Problems whose real issue is trust or long-term emotional attachment |
| Ritual focus | Bringing hidden attraction out into the open |
Who Is Sitri?
Sitri belongs to an older European grimoire tradition and appears under variant names such as Sytry and Bitru. Johann Weyer includes Sytry in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, while the later Ars Goetia preserves Sitri as a Prince commanding sixty legions.
The traditional description is unusually direct. Sitri appears initially with a leopard-like face and griffin wings before assuming a beautiful human form. His principal office is to inflame men and women with sexual desire for one another. The old descriptions also connect him with exposing intimate matters that people would normally keep concealed.
That second power is easy to overlook, but I think it reveals something important about the nature of the spirit. Sitri is not only concerned with producing attraction. He is concerned with making attraction more difficult to hide.
There is a large difference between someone privately finding you attractive and that attraction beginning to affect behavior. A person may start seeking your attention, become more openly flirtatious or create opportunities for greater intimacy. In practical work, this is where I find Sitri particularly useful. He brings something that was previously private closer to the surface.
Sitri Is Not Simply a Love Demon
Several spirits associated with love or attraction occupy quite different territory. I would consider Sallos where affection and romantic harmony are more important than sexual heat. Beleth is appropriate to a much broader and sometimes heavier love current. Gremory can be useful where attraction overlaps with affection and hidden feelings.
Sitri is more directly erotic.
That does not mean a Sitri operation necessarily leads to casual sex or excludes deeper attachment. It simply means that the part of the situation being worked upon is desire itself.
If two people already care about each other but sexual attraction has become weak, Sitri may make sense. If attraction exists but remains buried beneath hesitation, he becomes even more interesting. I would also consider him for general magnetism where the objective is to receive more sexual attention without having to direct the entire operation toward one specific person.
In that kind of work, much of Sitri’s influence is directed through the magician himself.
Attraction and Concealed Desire
People hide attraction all the time. Someone may avoid looking too long because eye contact would reveal too much, or behave formally because open flirting would make the situation awkward. Another person may simply be interested but unwilling to risk rejection.
This is why I do not think the best Sitri petition is simply:
Make this person love me.
That is too broad and does not make much use of what distinguishes Sitri.
A better operation can be aimed at increasing the sexual side of attraction and making it harder for that attraction to remain buried. You are not necessarily trying to manufacture an entire relationship. You may simply want the tension between two people to become stronger and much easier to read.
That idea shapes the ritual below.
What I Learned From My Earlier Sitri Work
My earlier failures with Sitri were useful because they exposed a problem in the way I had been approaching the spirit.
The ritual structure was there, but I was entering it with the same kind of detached concentration I might use for another type of magical work. For a spirit whose office is explicitly sexual, that eventually seemed increasingly artificial.
After speaking with another magician who had obtained much stronger results, I started holding back from sexual release for a while before working with Sitri. The difference in subsequent work was pronounced enough that I kept the technique.
This does not mean spending several days obsessing over sex. That usually just makes the magician distracted. The useful part is the restraint itself. Desire comes up and, instead of immediately getting rid of it, you leave it alone.
By the time the ritual begins, there is something physically present to work with.
Preparing Sexual Energy Before the Ritual
For this method, I recommend reducing sexual release for several days beforehand if you can do so comfortably.
Some people do well with a week. Others find that after a shorter period their concentration becomes worse rather than better. There is no occult prize for reaching an arbitrary number of days.
I would also avoid spending the preparation period constantly stimulating yourself through pornography or other deliberate sexual material. That defeats much of the purpose. The aim is not to walk into the ritual half-crazed with arousal. You simply want desire to have some pressure behind it.
You should still be able to concentrate normally.
Once the ritual begins, that tension gives Sitri’s work a physical dimension instead of leaving the whole thing at the level of thought and imagination.
Sitri’s Sigil
Sitri’s sigil comes through the Goetic manuscript tradition, although graphical variations exist between manuscripts and later printed editions. A manuscript form of Sitri’s sigil survives in Sloane MS 2731, while later printed editions introduced their own redrawings and variations.
I prefer working with a recognizable historical form rather than a decorative redesign.
For this ceremony, I recommend drawing the sigil yourself before the working. Drawing it forces your attention through the actual structure of the symbol and makes it easier to trace deliberately later.
At this stage, however, it is simply prepared. The important work with the sigil happens during the ceremony when it is traced, addressed and used as the main point of contact with Sitri.
Sitri’s Enn
The modern enn commonly used for Sitri is:
Lirach alora vefa Sitri.
This formula does not come from the Ars Goetia or the older Weyer material.
I still use it.
The enn works well because it gives the mind something simple to return to while concentration deepens and the atmosphere of the ritual changes. I do not prescribe an exact number of repetitions.
If somebody chants an enn 108 times while spending half the ritual wondering whether he has reached repetition 83, I do not consider that automatically superior to chanting it fewer times with deeper concentration.
Continue until the words stop feeling like something you are deliberately restarting every few seconds and begin blending into the ritual itself.
The enn can also be used before one of my Sitri prayers to settle the mind and establish contact from your side before speaking the request.
What I Would Ask Sitri For
For general attraction, I might use a petition like:
Sitri, increase the sexual attraction I produce in the people I desire. Let my presence be felt more strongly and let those who are drawn to me reveal that attraction clearly enough that I can recognize and respond to it.
For a situation where attraction already appears to exist but remains restrained:
Sitri, intensify the desire that exists between us and bring what is hidden closer to expression. Weaken unnecessary inhibition and let attraction reveal itself through behavior and opportunity.
For personal magnetism:
Sitri, strengthen the erotic force of my presence and let those who are naturally receptive to me notice me more readily. Make my appearance, voice and manner more compelling to those I wish to attract.
I prefer petitions of this kind because they specify what should change without attempting to control every detail of how it happens.
If you dictate the exact place, exact words and exact sequence through which another person must respond, you leave the operation very little room to move.
Tell Sitri what result you want. You do not need to write the script for every event that leads to it.
Preparing the Ritual Space
For this working I use Sitri’s sigil, an obsidian mirror, a red or dark crimson candle, incense, an athame and a perfume or cologne that the magician genuinely intends to wear afterward. Wine can be used as an offering.
The mirror begins covered with dark cloth because the ceremony starts with attraction hidden from view.
Sitri’s sigil is placed directly before the covered mirror. The principal candle stands behind or slightly beside it so that some light reaches the cloth without fully illuminating the area.
The perfume remains closed at the beginning. It enters the ritual later and becomes the part of the working that the magician physically takes with him afterward.
The objects are not there simply to decorate an altar. Each one has something to do.
Entering the Ritual
Stand outside the circle with the athame pointed toward the ground.
Before stepping inside, notice whatever sexual tension has built up during the previous days. Do not deliberately increase it through fantasy. Just become aware of it.
Enter the circle and walk its interior clockwise once while defining the boundary with the athame.
Return to the center and face the covered mirror. Slow your breathing and allow your body to settle without letting your attention drift completely away from the sexual tension already present.
You are not trying to become intensely aroused before Sitri has even been called. At this point you are simply becoming conscious of what you have brought into the ceremony.
Opening Sitri’s Sigil
Approach the manifestation point and take Sitri’s drawn sigil in your non-dominant hand.
Pass the athame through the incense, then use its point to follow the lines of the sigil without cutting the paper. Move slowly enough that you are actually following the design rather than waving the blade over it.
Chant Sitri’s enn as you trace:
Lirach alora vefa Sitri.
Let the chant continue while your hand moves.
When you have completed the sigil on paper, lower it and trace the same form once in the air before the covered mirror.
On the final stroke, point the athame toward the center of the manifestation point and say:
Sitri, Prince of desire and revelation, I open this sign to you. Approach through your name and your sigil, and let your current enter this operation.
Return the paper to its place and step backward without turning away from the manifestation area.
Continue the enn.
Bringing the Sexual Tension Into the Ritual
Remain standing and breathe slowly through the nose.
On each inhalation, lightly tighten the lower abdomen and pelvic floor so that the sexual tension becomes more noticeable. Relax again when you exhale. There is no need to strain or hold the contraction for long.
After several breaths, stop focusing only on the lower body. As you inhale, let your attention travel upward through the torso. Become conscious of your posture and the expression on your face.
The aim is to stop experiencing sexual desire as something happening only in one part of the body. Sitri is being called to affect how your whole presence is perceived.
Continue chanting between breaths.
As the ritual becomes more intense, let the voice become firmer if that happens naturally. There is no need to force it.
When your physical state feels clearly different from when you entered the circle, stop chanting.
Calling Sitri
Raise the athame toward the covered mirror.
Say:
Sitri, Great Prince who inflames desire and brings concealed appetite toward expression, I call you into this place. Come through the sign prepared for you and establish your presence before me. Let the force by which attraction becomes difficult to ignore enter this chamber and attend the work I place before you.
Pause before continuing.
I have called you for movement in the world of desire, not merely for fantasy within this room. Hear the purpose of this operation and lend your influence where attraction can become real.
Lower the athame.
If you use a bell, ring it once.
Then remain quiet and give the contact some time to develop. If the atmosphere changes, do not rush through it simply because another instruction comes next.
A ritual should have enough room for something to actually happen.
Unveiling the Mirror
Once the contact feels established, approach the mirror and place both hands on the cloth.
Say:
What has remained concealed is now brought toward sight.
Draw the covering downward slowly until the mirror is fully exposed.
Do not immediately stand squarely in front of it. Move slightly to one side and resume Sitri’s enn in a lower voice while looking into the dark surface at an angle.
This is the central change in the ceremony.
Until now, desire has been present but held back. From here onward, the work is about bringing it into view.
Presenting the Desire
Take the written petition and hold it before the exposed mirror.
Read it aloud.
Speak plainly. If the objective is sexual attraction, there is no reason to disguise that behind elaborate language about sacred union unless that is genuinely what you want.
When the petition has been read, turn the written side toward the mirror.
Say:
Sitri, this desire is no longer confined to thought. I place it before you openly. Give it force where force is possible and let attraction connected with this work become easier to recognize and express.
Remain there for several repetitions of the enn, then lower the petition.
Turning the Work Back Toward the Magician
Now stand directly before the mirror and look at your reflection.
Until this point, most of your attention has been on what you want from the outside world. This stage turns the ritual back toward you.
Notice the tension in your body again.
Place the flat of the athame briefly against the sternum.
Say:
Sitri, draw your current through my presence.
Raise the blade horizontally beneath the face and continue:
Let those who are receptive to me notice what they might otherwise overlook. Let attraction strengthen where attraction can exist, and let hidden interest become easier to reveal.
Lower the blade and remain with your reflection for a short while.
Do not start performing confidence for yourself in the mirror. The point is not to admire your reflection or convince yourself that you are attractive. The point is to make the magician part of the operation instead of treating him as someone standing outside it asking other people to change.
Consecrating the Magician’s Scent
Take the perfume or cologne you intend to wear in ordinary life.
Pass it through Sitri’s incense and place it between the sigil and the mirror.
Trace Sitri’s sigil over the bottle with the athame.
Say:
Sitri, let this scent carry the memory of this operation. When I wear it, let the current established here move with me and strengthen the attraction I produce among those who are capable of responding.
Open the bottle and apply it normally.
I usually use fragrance on the throat and wrists, but there is no ritual reason to copy my exact routine. Apply it where you ordinarily would.
This is the first part of the ceremony that deliberately leaves the ritual room with you.
Sending the Request Outward
Take the petition and hold it against your chest for several breaths.
Then extend your arms toward Sitri’s manifestation point.
Say:
What I have held within myself, I now place into your current.
Fold the petition once away from yourself.
In many attraction rituals people are taught to fold everything toward themselves, but I use the opposite motion here deliberately. The desire began with the magician. At this stage it is being handed over.
Move forward and place the folded petition beneath Sitri’s sigil.
Say:
Carry this into the encounters and circumstances through which it can become real. Let attraction reveal itself instead of remaining hidden.
Step backward and leave the petition there.
Drawing Sitri’s Influence Back Into Your Presence
The work does not end with sending the request toward Sitri.
Raise the athame and trace Sitri’s sigil once in the air between yourself and the manifestation point.
When the final line is complete, slowly draw the blade back toward your own chest.
Say:
Let the work move outward, and let your influence remain with me where I can use it.
This is the exchange I want from the operation. Sitri is being directed toward events outside the ritual room, while some of his influence is deliberately drawn into the magician’s presence.
That makes more sense to me in attraction work than imagining that every change happens somewhere outside you.
Presenting the Offering
Pour the wine only after the main work has been completed.
As the glass fills, say:
Sitri, receive this offering in acknowledgment of your presence and your assistance in this work.
Lift the glass toward the manifestation point.
Continue:
Let what has been brought into the open here show itself outside this chamber through real attraction and real opportunity.
Place the wine near Sitri’s sigil.
Remain quiet for a short period. If communication occurs naturally, attend to it. There is no need to force another conversation just because the ceremony is nearly finished.
Closing the Sitri Working
Return to the mirror and look at your reflection briefly.
Then cover it again.
As the reflection disappears, say:
This chamber closes, but the work continues beyond it.
The ritual began with the mirror covered. It was uncovered when the work moved from hidden desire toward expression. Now it is covered again because the ritual no longer needs to remain concentrated inside the room.
Face Sitri’s manifestation point.
Say:
Sitri, Great Prince, I thank you for attending this operation. Carry the work forward according to the desire placed before you. Let attraction strengthen where it can take form, let unnecessary inhibition weaken and let favorable opportunities become easier to recognize.
Give the spirit the license to depart according to your usual ceremonial method.
Walk the circle counterclockwise and close the boundary with the athame.
Extinguish the manifestation candle last.
The ritual is complete. Do not immediately begin checking for signs or trying to work out whether something has happened. You have already done your part inside the chamber.
What to Do With the Sigil and Petition
I do not recommend destroying Sitri’s sigil immediately unless that is already part of your established method.
My older version of this ritual treated the sigil more like something that remained tied to the request until the result occurred. I now prefer a less rigid approach.
Keep the sigil somewhere private while the operation remains active. The petition can remain beneath it for a period without turning the arrangement into a permanent shrine around one request.
When the matter has clearly resolved, either through fulfillment or because you consciously decide to close the operation, dispose of the petition appropriately.
If you intend to work with Sitri again, keep the sigil. There is no reason to pretend the relationship begins from zero every time.
What Happens After the Ritual
Sitri is not particularly useful if the magician removes himself from every situation in which attraction could actually show itself.
That does not mean the ritual reduces to ordinary social advice. The point is that ordinary situations should begin behaving more favorably.
Wear the consecrated scent. Go about your life normally and pay attention to changes without hunting obsessively for them.
If somebody begins giving noticeably stronger signals, do not ignore them because you were waiting for a supernatural confirmation first. If an existing connection changes tone, allow the interaction to develop.
Magic may create the opening. You still have to notice that it opened.
What Sitri Results Can Look Like
The results I pay attention to are mainly behavioral.
Eye contact may begin lingering longer than it did previously. Someone who had been formal may become noticeably more flirtatious. Conversations can pick up sexual tension more quickly, while an existing attraction may become much easier to read because the other person stops concealing it so carefully.
Changes can also happen on the magician’s side. Sexual communication may become easier and hesitation can decrease. Interactions that previously felt awkward may start flowing with less effort.
That does not mean every smile or friendly interaction is evidence of Sitri.
What matters is whether the general pattern around attraction changes after the operation.
Sitri for General Magnetism
I think Sitri is underused for broad attraction work because many people approach him only after becoming fixated on one particular person.
That can unnecessarily restrict the operation.
A broader working can ask Sitri to make the magician noticeably more attractive to people who are already compatible and potentially receptive. This gives the spirit much more room to create useful encounters.
You may receive more attention or notice that flirting develops with less effort. People who previously would have interacted with you neutrally may begin reading you in a more sexual way.
This kind of work is especially useful when the problem is not one failed connection but simply that there are too few interesting opportunities appearing in the first place.
Sitri and Glamour
Sitri’s traditional transformation from a more animalistic appearance into an exceptionally beautiful human form makes him interesting for glamour work.
I do not mean literal physical transformation.
The useful objective is changing perception.
A person’s face and body can remain exactly the same while the reactions they produce change considerably depending on expression, posture, clothing, voice, scent and the general impression they give.
Sitri can be approached to intensify the sexual reading of qualities that are already present.
That is different from simply asking to become more beautiful.
In attraction work, being perceived as desirable is usually the more useful objective anyway.
Sitri Inside an Existing Relationship
Sitri can also be useful when an established relationship has become sexually flat.
In that situation I would not ask for generic love. The work would be directed toward restoring erotic tension.
Long familiarity can remove some of the uncertainty and novelty that originally made attraction intense. Two people can still care about each other while gradually interacting more like domestic partners than lovers.
A Sitri operation can be aimed at making sexual attention between them more active again.
That said, lust does not automatically repair resentment, betrayal or deeper incompatibility. If the actual problem belongs elsewhere, choose the spirit and operation accordingly.
Sitri is most useful when the obstacle genuinely concerns desire.
Sitri Compared With Other Love Spirits
Sallos is more appropriate in my practice when the objective centers on affection and romantic closeness. Beleth can be useful for larger and more forceful love operations where the emotional component extends beyond sexual attraction. Gremory becomes particularly interesting where attraction overlaps with affection and hidden emotional interest.
Sitri occupies the more explicitly erotic territory.
I would choose him when the main problem is weak sexual attraction or when attraction exists but remains too inhibited to go anywhere.
This does not mean deeper feelings cannot develop afterward. They simply are not the part of the situation Sitri is being called primarily to change.
Working With a Particular Person
If the ritual concerns one individual, focus on the real point of resistance rather than trying to script the person’s entire behavior.
There is a meaningful difference between asking Sitri to intensify existing attraction and attempting to dictate everything another person must do.
I generally prefer giving the spirit room to work. The objective may involve stronger desire, clearer flirting or better opportunities for intimacy. It does not need to specify the exact sentence the other person must say or the precise circumstances under which something has to happen.
The more you try to choreograph reality afterward, the more restrictive the petition becomes.
Sitri’s Offerings
The historical Goetic sources do not provide Sitri with the kind of detailed offering list that circulates online today.
Wine works well in my own practice because it fits the sensual character of the operation and integrates naturally into ceremonial work.
Some practitioners also use perfume, flowers or other sensual offerings. I would not present these as ancient requirements.
Choose something that belongs naturally within the operation and give it deliberately. The offering should have a purpose beyond making the altar look suitably occult.
Invocation, Evocation and Prayer
These approaches are related, but they are not identical.
Prayer can be useful for maintaining contact with Sitri or making a relatively simple request. Invocation becomes particularly interesting for magnetism and glamour because the magician deliberately draws Sitri’s influence into his own presence. Evocation places greater emphasis on Sitri as an intelligence encountered within the ritual space and becomes more useful when direct communication forms part of the work.
The method in this article combines evocation with deliberate embodiment because attraction is not purely something happening somewhere outside the magician.
The magician is part of what is being changed.
If you prefer a simpler approach than a full evocation, I have also written a separate collection of prayers to Sitri for lust, attraction, seduction and hidden desire. These can be used on their own or before a more elaborate ritual.
Professional Sitri Work
The ritual above is a complete public method and can be used as written.
When I perform Sitri work professionally through my Ritual for Hire service, I do not repeat the same operation regardless of the situation.
General magnetism requires a different emphasis from rekindling desire inside an existing relationship. A case where attraction already exists but remains inhibited needs another approach again.
Professional work can therefore involve additional divination, changes to the manifestation structure and ritual actions chosen around the actual obstruction involved.
Knowing that Sitri governs desire is the beginning. Understanding what is actually preventing that desire from moving in a particular case is what determines how I build the operation.
Final Thoughts
Sitri is one of the clearest spirits in the Goetic tradition when it comes to sexual attraction.
The traditional description does more than associate him with lust. It also connects him with exposing what people usually conceal, and I think that gives us a much better way to understand his practical use.
A Sitri operation becomes especially useful when attraction exists but is too weak or too hidden to affect behavior. The spirit can also be approached more broadly when the magician wants to become noticeably more sexually magnetic.
My own results improved when I stopped treating Sitri as another spirit to be approached through detached sigil meditation and began bringing some genuine sexual tension into the ceremony.
That remains the core of the method here.
The ritual starts with attraction hidden, brings it into the open, directs Sitri toward the desired result and then sends the magician back into ordinary life carrying part of that influence with him. What matters afterward is whether people start behaving differently, not how dramatic the altar looked while the ritual was taking place.
