Asmoday

The 32nd of the seventy-two, a king. Gives the Ring of Virtues. In the language of this path, Asmoday is a shadow pole — worked only with its angel, Vasariah.

Asmoday as engraved by Louis Le Breton — Asmoday — Louis Le Breton engraving, de Plancy’s *Dictionnaire Infernal* (1863). Public domain.

Rank	King
Number	32 of the 72
Legions	72
Direction	South
Also called	Asmodai · Asmodeus · Ashmedai · Chashmodai · Sydonay
Angel (light pole)	Vasariah — Shem #32

What the grimoires say

In the 1904 Goetia, Asmoday is a King governing 72 legions. Gives the Ring of Virtues; teaches mathematics and crafts; guards treasure.

A Great King shown with three heads — bull, man, and ram — a serpent's tail, and fire issuing from his mouth. Grimoire lore has him ride a dragon/infernal beast and carry a lance and banner; he is linked to the lawful order AMAYMON.

“The Thirty-second Spirit is Asmoday, or Asmodai. He is a Great King, Strong and Powerful. He appeareth with Three Heads, whereof the first is like a Bull, the second like a Man, and the third like a Ram; he hath also the tail of a Serpent, and from his mouth issue Flames of Fire. He teacheth the Arts of Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, and all Handicrafts. He giveth true Answers, maketh one Invincible, and showeth the place where Treasures lie. He governeth 72 Legions of Spirits. (Mathers/Crowley, Goetia, 1904 — public domain)”— Mathers & Crowley, The Goetia (1904), public domain

The shadow it carries

Stripped to the bone, Asmoday's traditional office turns on mastery of exact skills: mathematics, astronomy, geometry and crafts. Read plainly, that is a real human force; in the language of this path its raw, unowned form is a shadow pole. Its shadow is what that force does when it runs you from the dark; its gold is the same force — seen, owned, governed.

You never reach for it alone. Its light pole is the angel Vasariah; met together, behind protection, Asmoday becomes a disowned part of yourself approached while the light is already in the room.

Correspondences

A word of honesty first: almost none of the table below is from the old grimoires. The rank, legions, direction and office are traditional; the planet, day, colour, tarot, incense and the Enn are modern attributions (mostly 20th–21st-century Demonolatry and correspondence compilations), and the sources openly disagree. Use them as a working frame, not as law.

Correspondence	Value	Where it comes from
Tarot	6 of Swords	Golden Dawn decan system / Crowley 777 (Aquarius decan 2 = Mercury in Aquarius)
Zodiac/decan	Aquarius 10-20 degrees (2nd decan)	Golden Dawn decan mapping
Planet	Sun	modern correspondence (rank-based: King = Sun)
Day	Sunday	modern correspondence (follows Sun)
Element	Air (fire also associated via his flaming aspect)	modern Demonolatry tables
Metal	Gold	modern correspondence (follows Sun)
Candle colour	Yellow / gold	modern correspondence tables
Incense	Frankincense	modern correspondence tables
Plant	No fixed traditional attribution	varies by source (modern tables inconsistent)
Animal	Serpent (from his serpent's tail); also bull and ram imagery	derived from grimoire form
Date-window	Jan 30 - Feb 8	Golden Dawn decan calendar (Aquarius decan 2)

Its modern Enn — a chant from the Demonolatry current, not found in any grimoire:

“Ayer avage Aloren Asmoday aken" — MODERN Demonolatry enn”

Making a connection

Gathered from what practitioners report, put plainly — a starting point, not a rule:

Sit with the seal above as the first meeting-place: trace it, hold it in the mind’s eye, and let impressions arrive without grabbing at them.
Set a gentle frame. Keep it simple — a yellow candle, a sunday, a little incense, a moment of quiet. If you work the Demonolatry current, chant the Enn softly — more like settling than commanding.
Bring the real theme. Practitioners associate Asmoday with willpower, confidence and a sense of being unshakeable/invincible, guarding and stewarding resources or valuables. Name what you actually want, and ask — don’t demand.
Journal before and after, and treat everything as your own experience, not fixed doctrine.

Never alone — the angel first. This is a shadow pole, and the whole discipline of this path is that you never reach for one by itself. Call its angel, Vasariah (Shem angel #32), first; work behind protection, inside a cast circle; and witness, don't become. If you have not yet read it, start with The Goetic Spirits — Safely. This is advanced work and it is not a substitute for mental-health care.

Rank, legions, direction and office are from the public-domain grimoires (Weyer 1577; Mathers & Crowley, The Goetia, 1904). Images are public domain: the 1904 seal and Louis Le Breton’s Dictionnaire Infernal engraving (1863). The Enn and the planet/day/colour/tarot correspondences are modern attributions (Demonolatry and compilations), flagged as such; sources disagree, and no copyrighted description or artwork is reproduced. Angel pairing per the Rudd tradition. Take the technique, never the tribe.

“Guard your treasure too tightly and you become its prisoner, not its king.”