Asmodeus



Asmodeus (Asmoday)



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Asmodeus (Asmoday) is the demon of lust and wrath. Working with Asmodeus will help to gain friendship, love, lust, prosperity, influence, luck, and revenge. He offers elevated sex drive and sexual prowess, sex magick practices, boosts luck and gambling success, and transmutes blockages to magical ascension.

Asmodeus: History, Mythology, and Lore

Asmodeus (also called Asmodai) is a big ol’ horndog. Possibly the biggest horndog of any of the Demon Princes. He also has been known to dabble in revenge, architecture, and various whacky antics. One of the more commonly referred He’s listed as thirty-second in rank in the Ars Goetia, far down the list, but not so far as some and certainly higher than others.

There is some linguistic speculation that the very name ‘Asmodeus’ may translate to something like ‘wrathful’, from the term ‘Aeshma-daeva’. Most sources agree that Asmodeus originated in the Persian Zoroastrian religion, and was slowly incorporated into different religious traditions to the west.

For example, in the Kabbalah, Asmodeus is a child of a union between a succubus and King David, because of course he is. King David never really could keep it in his pants in any story so it’s a fool’s errand to expect that to be true in this case.

In Talmudic lore and the Lesser Key of Solomon, Asmodeus is called Asmodai and acts a bit more like a prankster. For one thing, he is credited with helping to build Solomon’s temple (The Testament of Solomon), and also impersonating King Solomon for several years in order to sleep with his wife, which became awkward when Solomon came rolling back into town, forcing Asmodeus to flee. He’s also said, in this tradition, to have married Lilith. Well, fair enough, and who hasn’t?


Apparently, Asmodeus, according to The Testament of Solomon has a special loathing of birds and water—as both remind him of God. He has uncomfortable associations with Loudon, according to the Catholic Church. Everyone has to have a place where they feel comfortable outside of hell, right?

Le Dictionaire Infernal paints Asmodeus/Asmodai as a confusion of associated creatures patched into one body:

  • a rooster

  •  the torso of a man

  •  a trio of heads including

  •  a human one

  •  a bull

  •  and a sheep, one of which is spitting fire.

 Of course, such an august personage could only ever ride a lion with dragon-wings, so that’s what Asmodeus rides. It’s worth noting that all of this version—church approved version, by the way—of Asmodeus’s components are associated with lust or revenge in some manner or another.  In modern witchcraft, Asmodeus is associated with lust, of course, but also with self-knowledge, exploration and to an extent, self-acceptance, as EA Koetting states.



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Working with Asmodeus

Asmodeus (Asmoday) is the demon of lust and wrath. Working with Asmodeus will help to gain friendship, love, lust, prosperity, influence, luck, and revenge. He offers elevated sex drive and sexual prowess, sex magick practices, boosts luck and gambling success, and transmutes blockages to magical ascension.

I created a Asmodeus playlist on YouTube of meditation music, meditations, and mantras to help you in your journey.

Asmodeus’ Enn: Ayer avage aloren Asmoday aken

Asmodeus’ Correspondences:

  • Botanical and Aromatic: Belladonna, Blue Lotus, Cinnamon, Damiana, Dragons Blood, European Mandrake root, Frankincense, Mint, Oranges, Saffron, Wormwood

  • Crystals and Stones: Copper, Fire Agate, Gold

  • Animals: Whale

  • Offerings: Blood, Sexual fluids, honey, wine, chocolate, sex magick, any of the listed botanical and mineral correspondences





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