• Do you refuse to let us help you?

    Hello everyone!

    Happy Monday! For those of you having a long weekend, I hope you are doing something fun and relaxing.


    Today I am writing about a concern I have for so many of you. I am not sure how to really approach this subject because it is going to sound like I am fussing at some of you and that is not my intention. All I (and our staff) want to do is help you! But I am genuinely concerned at how many of you recently simply will not accept the help, will not take the suggestions and guidance offered to you, and completely refuse to do anything to help yourself.


    I don’t know if there is something in the water or what, but despite the best efforts of myself, caseworkers, chat operators, office staff, etc., there seems to be quite a group of you out there right now who insist on continuing to be in abject misery while your spell castings are going on or while you are in your waiting period.


    Interestingly, this is not those of you who have long term cases! These are some of you who are either in the middle of spell work or are just a couple of months into a waiting period. BUT you have been mostly that way since the beginning of your spell work, hardly ever having been willing to take a positive attitude, do anything to remove the negativity from yourself, and you spend hours obsessing and crying and generally freaking out over your case.


    No matter how much we tell you that you are pouring the wrong energy into your case, you refuse to listen. So let me say this: We are worried about you. You are turning your spell work in the opposite direction of where you want it to go. You are creating your own negative outcome. 🙁 It is painful to watch you. It is painful to see you spend time, money, and effort on something only to directly sabotage it.


    Frankly, I am reduced to begging you to please stop being so negative. Please do something to relieve some of your misergy! Pray the prayers of your religion, do some white candle magick on yourself, take a white bath, watch a funny movie, compartmentalize your grief (allow yourself an hour to be dramatically grieving and then go do something else), help someone else who is worse off than you (the best medicine ever for making yourself feel better), etc. Please, all I am asking you to do is TRY. No one is going to be positive 100% of the time. We are all going to have bad days and times when we just feel hopeless. But some of you are letting that hopelessness rule your life. It will ruin you. It will ruin your spell work.


    Your caseworker is happy to help you work through some strategies to make you feel better. However, many of them are reporting to me that certain people just refuse to be helped. 🙁 You may not believe this, but it hurts us to see you this way. We actually do care what happens to you. We do all of this because we care. However, you have to care about you, too. Like I said, I am reduced to begging you: Please let us help you to help yourself.


    Love and prayers for all of you,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

  • Erzulie Ritual Was Wonderful!

    Hello everyone!

    Just a quick note to let you all know how wonderful the Erzulie Ritual was here at the www.spellmaker.com office!


    The first great thing was all the hard work done by Berkeley, our office manager and altar hounsi, to help us set up for the ritual. She baked, cleaned, arranged, made a new petitioning box, and did a wonderful job in setting up for the ritual! (Thank you,Berk!)


    As your letters and notes came in for inclusion in the ritual I was moved by how many of you not only asked for blessings from Erzulie for yourself but also for others. There was an amazing energy of the universal mind. Cosmic consciousness was certainly in evidence.


    A most interesting thing happened during the ritual. After Parran Matt and I got the ritual started and lit the candles, we took some time to re-read and present the petitions. Imagine our surprise when we were only a few minutes in to see the pink candles burned down over HALFWAY!!! That energy was blazing, my friends!! There was so much love and energy in those requests, it was amazing. Erzulie Freda was certainly one busy lady yesterday.


    Remember, although we will not be taking more requests for this ritual until next year, you can still do the ritual to Erzulie anytime you want! We will keep the one day ritual pack available all year long this year! So if you are doing love spell work and want to boost it, you can either purchase the small ritual pack and do the one day ritual as a form of adjunct work or you can just get the ritual itself off of our website for free and provide your own materials for it. Either way, you will be honoring the great Vodou love goddess, Erzulie Freda.


    Additionally, we will leave up the other packages that we normally just sell at Valentine’s Day. We have decided to make those special packages available to you all year round. So many of you are doing love spell work and those packages allow you to purchase adjunct materials for a much lower price than purchasing them individually. So we have made the decision to make those available to you all year this time around.


    Thank you all so much for participating in the ritual with us! It is our pleasure to serve you in this way and it is a great honor to work with so many wonderful people.


    So how did your own personal ritual go? We would love to hear about it!!! Just send me a comment in the comment section below.
    Love,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield
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  • Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!

    Hello everyone,
    Happy Valentine’s Day one and all! We are getting ready for the ritual that we will be doing later on and in reading over everyone’s letters it is so heartwarming to see how many of you had requests for OTHER people’s happiness besides your own!


    It is just so nice to see how many caring and loving individuals are out there and hoping for the best for themselves while also hoping for the best for the important people in their lives and even for people they don’t know. Many of you asked in your letters for all those participating in the ritual to be blessed with love and happiness. Thank you all for that.


    Even though really Valentine’s Day is “just another day” there is so much concentration on giving and receiving love that it is really a great day to work on love spell work, love candle magick, etc., to tap into the love energy floating around out there!


    If you are doing any kind of magickal work today, remember to take a moment to call in all the loving energy that people are expressing towards each other and put that into your own work. Maybe you a person who is not personally receiving loving wishes today. But still you can call upon the universal love energy of this day and ask that you receive those loving vibrations into your heart and put that into your work.


    We are excited to get your ritual going this afternoon and look forward to feeling the love from each and every one of you. We send it back to you and hope you feel those universal hugs we are sending you all!!!!


    Much love,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield


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  • Do Something Nice for Someone!

    Happy Friday, everyone! I know that some of you are going to be alone for Valentine’s day tomorrow. Understandably it is a rough time of year with signs of love all around. I would like to encourage all of you to do something nice for someone tomorrow, someone you know will be alone or needs cheering up. It might be someone with a broken heart, but it might also be someone lonely, sick, afraid.


    If there is some way for you to give from your heart tomorrow, it will be appreciated and your heart will be filled with love and contentment from bringing joy into someone else’s life.


    This doesn’t have to be something grand or something that costs money. E-cards are free and can brighten up someone’s day! Writing a real letter or bringing someone a card (the dollar store here has cards 2/$1.00!!) is a great way to show someone you care. Just sit and have a conversation with someone who needs the company!


    Open your hearts to someone, somewhere out there! Don’t sit in bitterness and tears because another Hallmark holiday is passing you by. Now, of course, we hope that you are joining us for our Erzulie’s Valentine’s Day Ritual. That obviously isn’t going to take up your whole day! So I encourage you to make plans! If you plans can include brightening someone else’s day, it will be a great day for you both!


    St. Valentine’s Day is about giving, sharing love, remembering the meaning of love in all of its forms. I copied in below a little bit of the folklore about St. Valentine from goodworksonearth.org. I have heard a few different versions of the St. Valentine story, but this is a nice one and captures the idea of what different kinds of love exist for all of us to embrace. Whether the story is folklore or fact, it is still a reminder of the love that lives in all of our hearts, Valentine’s or not!


    I wish for love of all kinds for all of you!


    Love,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield


    ST. VALENTINE’S DAY – How It All Began


    The story of Valentine’s Day begins in the third century with an
    oppressive Roman emperor and a humble Christian martyr. The
    emperor was Claudius II Gothicus. The Christian was Valentinus.


    Claudius had ordered all Romans to worship the state religion’s
    idols, and he had made it a crime punishable by death to associate
    with Christians.


    But Valentinus was dedicated to the ideals of Christ, and not even
    the threat of death could keep him from practicing his beliefs.
    During the last weeks of Valentinus’s life a remarkable thing
    happened. One day a jailer for the Emperor of Rome knocked at
    Valentinus’s door clutching his blind daughter in his arms. He had
    learned of Valentinus’s medical and spiritual healing abilities, and
    appealed to Valentinus to treat his daughter’s blindness. She had
    been blind since birth.


    Valentinus knew her condition would be difficult to treat but he gave
    the manhis word he would do his best. The little girl was examined,
    given an ointment for her eyes and a series of re-visits were scheduled.


    Seeing that he was a man of learning, the jailer asked whether his
    daughter, Julia, might also be brought to Valentinus for lessons.
    Julia was a pretty young girl with a quick mind. Valentinus read
    stories of Rome’s history to her. He described the world of nature
    to her. He taught her arithmetic and told her about God. She saw
    the world through his eyes, trusted in his wisdom, and found
    comfort in his quiet strength.


    ‘Valentinus, does God really hear our prayers?’ Julia said one day.


    ‘Yes, my child, He hears each one, ‘he replied.


    ‘Do you know what I pray for every morning and every night?
    I pray that I might see. I want so much to see everything you’ve
    told me about!’


    ‘God does what is best for us if we will believe in Him,’ Valentinus
    said.


    ‘Oh, Valentinus, I do believe,’ Julia said intensely. ‘I do.’ She
    knelt and grasped his hand. They sat quietly together, each praying.


    Several weeks passed and the girl’s sight was not restored. Yet the
    man and his daughter never wavered in their faith and returned each
    week.


    Then one day, Valentinus received a visit from Roman soldiers who
    arrested him, destroyed his medicines and admonished him for his
    religious beliefs. When the little girl’s father learned of his arrest
    and
    imprisonment, he wanted to intervene but there was nothing he could do.


    On the eve of his death, Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia –
    knowing his execution was imminent. Valentinus asked the jailer
    for a paper, pen and ink. He quickly jotted a farewell note and
    handed it to the jailer to give to his blind daughter. He urged her
    to stay close to God, and he signed it ‘From Your Valentine.’ His
    sentence was carried out the next day, February 14, 270 AD, near
    a gate that was later named Porta Valentini in his memory.


    When the jailer went home, he was greeted by his little girl. The
    little girl opened the note and discovered a yellow crocus inside.
    The message said, ‘From your Valentine.’ As the little girl looked
    down upon the crocus that spilled into her palm she saw brilliant
    colors for the first time in her life! The girl’s eyesight was restored!
    A miracle!


    He was buried at what is now the Church of Praxedes in Rome. It
    is said that Julia herself planted a pink-blossomed almond tree near
    his grave.


    Today, the almond tree remains a symbol of abiding love and
    friendship. In 496 Pope Gelasius I named February 14 as Saint
    Valentine’s Day. On each Valentine’s Day, messages of affection,
    love and devotion are still exchanged around the world.

  • Papa Alegba Kits Gets Rave Reviews!

    Greetings one and all! Happy Thursday! 🙂 So have you used the Papa Alegba Knock-Knock Ritual Pack or Papa Alegba’s Open Door Red and White Bath??


    We were so happy to be able to launch these products a few weeks ago and many of you have already used them and reported back to us! I just wanted to share a few of the comments with you that people have written:


    “I feel like I have been waiting a long time for something like this. Never did I feel so much at peace and free as I did after using the ritual and bath. I did the bath after the ritual and went right to sleep. I don’t sleep well and could not believe when I woke up and it was morning. I usually wake up three to five times a night. I woke up feeling like I could conquer the world.”


    “Mambo Sam thank you so much for this Papa kit. I opened my package and smelled everything and started to cry. It felt like I was home and everything would be okay.”


    “Tell me about the smell in this bath! I was so comforted and felt so good after I did it. I had been sick for three weeks with a cold or something. The next morning I was well and felt ready for anything that was coming my way.”


    “Knock knock! I love that name and I love you and this ritual pack. I feel like I wasn’t just knocking on the door but knocking the door down. Awesome!”


    “I have never felt so connected to Papa. He has been my best friend for a long time but this has made it so much better.”


    Those are just a few of the rave reviews! I was especially elated to hear how much people felt like they could conquer the world or meet whatever was coming next! I really enjoyed hearing about the confidence factor that these products elicited!


    Have you used your kit and/or bath yet?? Let us hear from you!! I would love to hear from you all about it. Just click on the comments below and let us hear from you.


    Love,light,and peace,

    Mambo Sam

  • Oceanside Rituals and Cowrie Shell Readings by Sister Candelaria!

    Dear Friends,

    We are very excited to offer to all of you an extremely unique service. Our very own Sister Candelaria is now offering Oceanside Rituals to Agwe and LaSiren as well as cowrie shell readings!


    Sister Candelaria is, of course, a New Orleans Voodoo initiate, child of myself and Parran Matt. She is a priestess of Agwe and therefore is able to do work with him and his beautiful wife, LaSirene, on your behalf.


    If you are not familiar with cowrie shell readings, I think you are going to really love them! Cowrie shell readings are an extremely unique type of reading during which the priestess ritualistically throws the shells and asks questions on your behalf of the powerful lwa couple, Agwe and LaSiren. It is important for you to know that, generally speaking, cowrie shell readings are not considered psychic nor even prophetic types of readings. Cowrie shell readings are meant to give you direct guidance from the lwa through their priestess. These readings are generally done in the spirit of you wanting to know what to do next about a specific situation in your life, which path to take in a certain situation, etc. Cowrie shell readings traditionally are meant to clear up confusion, ask direct questions about a situation, etc. Cowrie shell readings are a spiritual experience between you, the priestess, and the lwa. Often times the priestess will be compelled to tell you things that do not even have to do with the subject at hand. The priestess is bound by oath to tell you whatever the lwa want you to hear.


    Equally exciting are the Oceanside Rituals that Sister Candelaria is now offering. These sanctified rituals begin at Sister Candelaria’s altar and end with her actually going to the ocean on your behalf where she will make your offerings and petitions to LaSirene and Agwe! She will then send you pictures, a ritual item, and a full report on your ritual. This is not the type of ritual that you can get just anywhere and especially not in the detail that she will provide to you with the pictures and guidance.


    Each ritual is customized to your requests to meet your goals. While the rituals do not replace regular spell work, they certainly are an extraordinary form of adjunct work! For instance, for love work, she will be calling upon the power of the love between Agwe and LaSiren to help your case. For money work, she will be calling on them to share their riches. For the Spiritual Power ritual, she will be calling on them to help you open up your spiritual centers, intuition, psychic centers and pathways, etc. You will discuss your needs with Sister Candelaria prior to the ritual. When your ritual is performed, she will send you a digital picture of your ritual set up as well as mailing you some of the materials used in the ritual with instructions for what you are to do with them.


    Please visit Sister Candelaria’s Page at www.spellmaker.com/candelaria.htm. If you have questions, please email Sister directly at candelaria@spellmaker.com


    Now some of you were lucky enough to have a reading with Sister Candelaria at the convention and/or have already had your Oceanside Ritual because you were at the convention and ordered there! We would love to hear your feedback! Just comment at the comment link below!


    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

  • Customer On Line Chat Service Changes

    Hello everyone,
    Just a quick note to let you know that over the next two weeks we will be making some changes and upgrading our online chat software. This will make chat unavailable for a few days off and on over the next two weeks.

    Please remember that the online chat is not the only way to contact us and certainly is not the only way to get technical support, put in an order, or talk to your caseworker. Many people have been using the chat this way, but we actually have many other options for that which have been outlined to you in your order confirmation and are included with your products. 😉

    So please, at least during this upcoming time period, please:

    • Write directly to your caseworker rather than waiting for him/her to show up on chat. (If you have forgotten your caseworker's email address, please write directly to Sister Bridget at bridget@spellmaker.com and ask her to put you in touch with your caseoworker.)
    • If you need tech support, please write to techsupport@spellmaker.com and include your tech support passcode.
    • If you are a new customer and need recommendations, either write to mycase@spellmaker.com or call our office at 505-962-2525, Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm mountain standard time.
    • For all other office matters, please write to office@spellmaker.com or call us as per above.

    We look forward to introducing the new, upgraded chat software ASAP. 🙂

    Love,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield

  • Rescue Remedy.

    Happy Saturday, everyone!

    Do you know about Rescue Remedy(tm)? This is a flower essence herbal remedy by the Bach company that helps calm, soothe, and generally relax you. It has been around for many years, and there is even a pet version that we often give to Mojo, our dog, because he is a little hyper!


    I mention it here because I know that so many people are stressed these days. You may be working on a difficult case with your love spell work, finances might be tight, jobs in question, etc. All of these stressors can often send us straight to the doctor where we walk away with a fist full of prescriptions to get us through the day. Anxiety and depression are at an all time high right now in America.


    Of course, I am not saying that a little flower essence is all you need, but if you are stressed out, depressed, etc., you might want to consider getting a bottle of Rescue Remedy and trying it out. It has the nicest calming effect. If you are calm and relaxed, certainly your love spell work has a better chance of working out for you. If you are depressed, anxious, and crying all the time, that is the kind of energy you are putting into your spell work.


    I copied this from the Rescue Remedy website:

    “If you feel like you’ve “had enough”, follow these simple tips to restore focus and regain inner calm wherever you are:


    • Relax – Take 10 deep breaths. Inhale deeply and exhale slowly.
    • Exercise – Learn some basic yoga techniques or just take a 10 minute walk.
    • Smile – Think of a happy time. It is near impossible to keep frowning while smiling and laughter stimulates the production of mood enhancing endorphins.
    • Calm – Let your imagination take you to a calm and tranquil place that exudes peace, serenity and beauty.
    • Use Your Lunchbreak – Take time out for yourself. A walk in the park, especially if it is sunny, can do wonders for your mood. It will help you work more efficiently in the afternoon too.
    • Escape – If you are able to, walk away. Removing yourself from a stressful situation can give you time to restore some perspective.”


    It is good advice!


    Sometimes we get so wrapped up in trying to achieve our spell work goals that we forget to take care of US, take care of how we feel, take care of how we are reacting to our lives. Our reaction to the events in our lives can actually change the next set of events. If you continue to feel like you have nothing but bad things happening to you, and you don’t feel like you see a way out, then you probably will not be presented with a solution. However, if you can put things in perspective and tell yourself that you KNOW there is a solution to the problem, you just need to find it, then you are setting yourself up to be open to potentials and prospects!


    I really wanted to let you all know about this little bit of “peace in a bottle” called Rescue Remedy. I have recommended it to some of you personally but wanted to get it out there in a bigger way. Some of you have let me know that you used it, for instance, before a Milk of Damballah(tm) white bath and felt that it helped you get a better result from it!


    Another person I recommended it to told me that she used it before every love spell work session. She reported that she felt better, didn’t feel like crying through the spell work, and overall felt that she had made a better environment for her spell work!


    One client told me that she even used it when doing her deluxe love doll. She took a few drops herself and then put a drop on the doll and petitioned that her HD would be calm and collected and thinking straight the next time she saw him (he has an anxiety disorder). She swears that it worked!!! I don’t have personal experience with that aspect of using it, but I can’t see that she had any reason to lie!


    Have any of you out there used Rescue Remedy? Did you use it in conjunction with your spell work or adjunct work?? We would love to hear from you about it!


    Love,

    Mambo Sam

  • Are you determined to be negative?

    Hello everyone!

    There seems to be a trend that I have noticed lately. This trend is not just among clients, but among other people that I see and deal with on a day-to-day basis. I don’t know if this trend is due to the economy, winter blues, or what, but there seems to be a certain faction of people who are just determined to have a negative attitude no matter what!


    Caseworkers have drawn my attention to this with some of their clients, but I had actually noticed it already. For some people, no matter how much we counsel them, they are determined to turn what we say into a something negative. For instance, if I tell a client in a reading that I don’t see the HD calling them tomorrow, they will turn around and say, “I bet he will never call me.” Or if the HD doesn’t want to see them right now because the spells are being processed: “Oh he never wants to see me and I don’t think he will ever come and see me again.”


    It is frustrating to try to counsel and help a person who can only see a negative outcome. Plus, somehow, they cannot seem to understand how only seeing a negative outcome will breed, of course, a negative outcome. If you constantly are talking about, expecting, and assuming that you will have a negative outcome, how can you have anything but that? You are not just shooting yourself in the foot, you just shot your foot OFF!


    Look, I know it is hard to remain positive sometimes. We all have negative moments, sad thoughts, fears that things won’t work out. However, when you allow all of that to become a lifestyle or an expectation, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. If you have spent time and money and effort on spell work, you are doing yourself an even bigger disservice. I had a client tell me one time that she didn’t want to think of the possibility of a good outcome from her spell work becaues she didn’t want to “get my hopes up and then be disappointed.” Okay, I get that. But, what kind of energy did she put out there: “Well, this probably won’t work, but I will try it anyway.”


    Is that how you are approaching your spell work? If so, I totally agree that you will probably get a negative result. That is a shame! So many of you have become steeped in such negativity and assurance that you will fail that we are left to sit an watch you plunge head long right into disasister. It is painful to watch.


    I really want to encourage you to try to find a way to look towards things (at least a little bit of the time) in a positive manner. If you truly cannot find anything positive in your life or you are so depressed that you do not see a chance for any happiness in your life, then I encourage you to seek professional help. Here at Spellmaker, all we want is the best for you. We want you to succeed. We want you to have the fairy tale ending. Don’t fight it! Let it happen!!!


    You know, being negative is easy. We are almost bred to it! When you go into a bookstore, you don’t see rows and rows of books on how to be negative. What you do see are rows and rows of books about positive thinking, having a winning attitude, etc. As humans we seem to need that kind of help and positive reinforcement!


    I know it isn’t easy to pull yourself out of a negative state of being, but trying is half the battle! Do some of you have tips for what you do when you feel negativity creeping into your life? We would love to hear them here!


    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Sam

  • Heating up for the Erzulie Ritual!

    Greetings everyone!
    It is just a little over a week (I can't believe how time flies!) to go until we start our annual Valentine's Ritual to Erzulie Freda here in the Spellmaker office! If you haven't gotten your ritual request in, please hurry up and do so. Just see the page at www.spellmaker.com/erzulie.htm for instructions on how to submit your letter. It's free, it's fun, it's fabulous!

    For some, this time of year is terribly dreaded. All those happy couples, Valentine's decorations, hearts and flowers just about everywhere can sometimes serve to make those who are facing this holiday alone just feel terrible. That is one of the reasons why we do the Erzulie ritual directly on Valentine's day. So if you don't have a date, you sure do have a date with us!

    Sure, we know it is easy to say it is a cheesy holiday just giving the greeting card companies another way to sell us another $5.00 card. It's easy to say you don't believe in it or wouldn't celebrate it anyway if you were with someone. But for most of us, if we are alone, we still feel pangs of pain in our hearts despite what our lips might say.

    If you feel like the idea of another Valentine's Day makes you want to run and hide, make a plan to spend the day thinking about your own ritual to Erzulie, shopping for what you need, setting everything up, etc. Make the day special to yourself in preparation for the day when someone else will make it special for you.

    Please remember that we are here for you! If you are feeling lonely, tired of being alone, or just plain stressed out over a Valentine's Day spent alone, please write to your caseworker. Tell your caseworker how you are feeling and spend some time discussing how you will spend the day and how you will make it special for yourself.

    So besides doing the Erzulie Valentine's Ritual with us (because I KNOW you are!), what other tips do you have for people spending this day alone? What else can you do to make this day special for yourself?

    I look forward to hearing from you all!

    Love to all,
    Mambo Sam
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