• Are You in Love and Angry?

    Greetings everyone!  As you all know, of course, working with clients who are doing our love spells gives me a great opportunity to be privileged enough to see the inner workings of many, many relationships. One thing that I see a LOT of are people who are actually very angry with the person upon whom they are doing love spell work!!  🙂

    Now believe me I am not saying that their anger is unwarranted!  Quite often they have been dumped in a very unceremonious way, getting hurt, remaining hurt, feeling no resolution for their hurt.  Of course they are angry!  Many times they are in contact with this person and still get hurt by them and thus the anger grows.  But here they are trying to do love spell work which by its very nature requires that you approach it from a standpoint of unconditional and pure love!   How on earth does one resolve that?

    Many people have chosen to do white candle magick kits and the Milk of Damballah(tm) white bath to help them release and remove the anger so that they may continue on with their love spell work feeling cleansed of that anger.  But what about that underlying, I-have-tried-and-I-just-can’t-get-rid-of-this anger? You probably know and feel deep down inside that the anger your are feeling towards the person you are doing love spell work on is somehow degrading that very work!  In fact, sometimes it gets so bad in people that they get on an endless cycle of being angry with their HD (Heart’s Desire) and then being angry with themselves for being angry with their HD and then being angry that they are angry! 

    Sometimes this can just go on and on especially if they are in contact with the HD who continues to needle them with either a new relationship, or continued criticism, or other negative behaviors.  Just because you love them doesn’t mean you are not affected by their negative behaviors!  Your resentment of these behaviors can have a definite negative effect on your love spell work!

    If you feel you are in this situation then I do encourage you to acknowledge what is happening and then take as many measures as necessary to help alleviate as much of the anger as you can.  Look, we are human, and most of us are not Mother Teresa, so you can only do the best you can!  The abovementioned white candle magick and Milk of Damballah white bath are definitely the standard tools for removing negativity and certainly do work for quite a number of people.  The Pink Bubble Meditation is helpful to use to release that anger and send it away from you!

    Another choice is doing the Baron’s Purple Bath. One of the many uses of the Baron’s Purple Bath is to take negative things away and bury them!  Along with that, you can ask that your own love for this person be resurrected to its full feeling once that anger is taken and buried away. In this way, you will again have the FULL POWER of your love to put into your spell work.  Remember, the great and powerful Baron Samedi is not just the lwa of death, but of life – burying and resurrecting are his forte’.  Asking him to bury your anger, hurt, and resentment and replace them with fresh and invigorated love, forgiveness, and positivity is sure to not only make you feel better, but to strengthen the power of your love spell work!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • The Za Za Zsu – In the Pink!

    Hello everyone!  Well, with the new Sex and the City movie in the theatres now, I am reminded of how many letters I used to receive referencing different themes and characters on the television show.  Whether you loved, hated, or could have cared less about the show, many of our clients often saw themselves or their relationships correlated in the episodes of the show.  I definitely had a love-hate relationship with the show as I wearied of otherwise intelligent women telling me that they were "so Carrie."  😉

    At any rate, there was an episode talking about the "za za zsu" in a successful relationship; that crazy, romantic, fabulous time period when intimacy between a couple was warm, exciting, and extremely close and loving.  🙂   In other words, romantic sex appeal – not just the instinct and desire to have sex with someone, but the desire to have that sex with the person who was special to you.

    I started thinking about this the other day when I was preparing candle magick kits for shipping.  Red male candle magick kits were flying out the door!   Passionate love!  And believe me there is nothing wrong with that.  But it got me to thinking, what about the romance?

    What about those pink male candle magick kits?  😉  I wanted to share with you part of a letter I received a couple of months ago from a client.  Here it is:

    "…and even though Teddy and I have been doing okay after I finished my spell kits, I really felt like we were missing romance in our life.  He is a scientist and spends his day proving and disproving scientific theory for a lab.  He can sometimes be very unromantic simply because he is someone who is very practical.  Anyway, I went ahead and got the BMS pink male candle magick kits.  When I was doing them I put some Abre Camino oil on the candle too and paid some special attention to the genital area (sorry for being so graphic).  I petitioned that the next time we were making love that he would feel warm and romantic.  I pictured us melting into each other just like the candle was melting.  About a week after I finished up the trio we were being intimate when he suddenly looked at me and said, "I feel like I am melting into you."  I was so shocked that I almost started laughing and crying at the same time.  Luckily we were so busy that he didn’t notice…"

    I thought that was a pretty amazing letter!  Just the idea of even using the petition to be melting into each other just like the candle was melting was pretty innovative, I thought.  Sometimes we get so wrapped up in trying to bring someone’s love to us, we forget that most of us want something warm and fuzzy in that love, too.   Although this particular client was already with her HD, I don’t see any reason that a person couldn’t do the pink candle magick kits in this way even if you aren’t already with them.   Bringing up romantic images of you in your HD’s mind can only help your case! 

    There is a pretty fine distinction when we are talking about love and romance.  Of course we want our partner to love us!  But I am sure plenty of you know both men and women who may love quite well, but have missed the mark in the romance department.  If you are a person who also wants to make sure that romance stays alive in the relationship you are working on, I would suggest throwing a little pink candle magick into it!  Maybe soon you will be melting in his arms, too, and feeling that za za zsu!  😉

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Because You Needed to Know… That’s Why!

    Hello everyone!  Quite often many of our clients, at some point during their love spell casting, find out things regarding the person they are working on.  A great deal of the time these things may seem like "bad" or "undesirable" things.  However, most of the time these things are found out because you need to know.

    In some cases you find out that there is another person involved that you didn’t know about, sometimes it is something about the person’s past that may be what is keeping them from you; there can be many, many things that one finds out.

    For most people, finding out these things sends them into a tailspin.  Suddenly there is a lot of negative thinking and worry that the spells aren’t working, or that they aren’t going to get what they want, etc., etc., etc.  But the truth is that most often you NEED to know these things.  Our spell work is not meant to sweep problems under the rug and give you the illusion that everything is okay and you are getting together with the person.  Our spell work is meant to seek out and bring to light what the REAL problems are so that you can deal with them and stand a real chance of being with the person.

    Many of you have often heard me say that "spell work brings the truth to light whether you want it to or not."  It is the absolute truth.  Of course none of us wants to hear bad news or negative things, especially in regards to our relationships.  But if we are working on a difficult relationship with our spell work, then it is imperative to know what the real problems and challenges are.  How you deal with the knowledge is most important.

    What seems like "negative news" is often Les Lois (the spirits of the Vodou religion) letting you know that "this" is something you need to work on; they are showing you the heart of the challenges of your relationship and letting you know that you still need to work on this subject.  Going downhill and getting depressed and freaking out at these things really isn’t going to help.  Figuring them into your spell work and adjunct work such as candle magick work, love doll work, etc. IS the thing to do with any kind of information that you get.  So when information is brought to you about the person you are working your magick on, think about why you are getting it!

    Now don’t misunderstand me, I am completely empathetic to the fact that sometimes it just plain old hurts to find out things that you didn’t know about your intended partner.  I am not saying that you aren’t going to sad or upset.  But unless it is something horrible like he is a serial killer or pedophile (in which case you are being brought that information so that you can RUN AWAY as fast as you can), then you should use that information to properly configure your spell work to account for what you have learned.  Try as best you can to channel all that hurt and upset into something positive such as working on the situation.

    Nobody likes to hear bad news, but just try to remember that sometimes it isn’t bad news, it is just information that you need to get your case on track.  🙂

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Father’s Day!

    Greetings everyone – and a Happy Father’s Day to all the good Dads out there.  🙂

    I cannot help by remember my own father on this special day.  He has been gone for many years, but his memory and spirit are with me always.  He is the reason for many things in my life:  My ability to cook like a professional chef (he was one, I am not!), my sense of humor, my work ethic, the way I treat people, and so much more.

    Even though my Dad never met a bottle of Chivas Regal that he didn’t like, he never sacrificed his family for a drink.  He was a hard working, hard drinking, hard playing man – an old salty dog from the Navy and a straight shooter.  He didn’t believe in lying, even though there were times would that would have been easier.   He believed in treating his employees with fairness and dignity even though most of them were Black at a time in the South where most Black employees weren’t treated well at all.   He took being called by racist names from his friends with aplomb and pragmatism simply saying they were "ignorant" and leaving it at that. 

    My Dad drove me and my friends anywhere we wanted to go; picking up a gang of pre-teen and then teen girls and putting us in his van and dropping us off at the mall, the lake, and anywhere else we wanted to go.  I almost regretted learning to drive because then Daddy didn’t need to take us anywhere anymore!

    He played poker with Mafia guys and I sat on his knee while he did it!  I ran into one of those fellas a couple of years ago in New Orleans.  He was just as old as he could be, but he still remembered me and my father!

    My Dad was, by his own admission, far from perfect as a man, but he was absolutely perfect as a father.  Thank you, Daddy!!!

    So blessings out there to all the Good Dads!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • How Do You Get Along with You?

    Greetings everyone!   Every day I am blessed to communicate with my clients, friends, and family from Spellmaker!  Many times I am privileged to do a consultation with you or in some other way hear your story and offer you guidance and advice.

    More and more lately I find that so many of you have lost sight of who you are.  There are those of you who seem to question your choices so much that you end up not making a choice.  There are others of you who seem to have fallen into self-hate, self-criticism, and general self-loathing.  🙁   It makes me so sad to see this happening!

    So that brings up the question that is the title of this post:  How Do You Get Along with You?  Something that I believe happens, especially when you have been working on something such as a relationship case for a long time, is that you tend to lose sight of yourself!  We get so focused on working on the person we wish to have as our love that we forget that we, too, have the role of "self" to play in our own lives!

    I find this especially true of my female clients – you end up having such an earnest desire to be loved, that you forget to love the most important person – YOU!  I cannot help but think sometimes that if you put as much effort into loving yourself as you do to your love spell work then that work would come to fruition a heck of a lot faster.

    So remember, just take some time today to remember who you are, love yourself, and try to get along with YOU!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • FREE SHIPPING and 15% off right now!

    Hello everyone!  I know a lot of us are really feeling the crunch of the high gas prices and resulting high prices for food and everything else in our lives.  Obviously, because of the high fuel prices, shipping costs have gone up and up and up! 

    However, to try to help out a little bit, we are right now offering not only 15% off all products on the website (www.spellmaker.com), but we are also offering FREE SHIPPING.  We are only able to offer this for our customers in the USA. 

    So do take advantage!  No matter how much you buy or the weight, your shipping will be absolutely free right now.

    Stay cool!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Ogoun’s Special Oil

    Hello everyone!  As many of you know, we are planning to resume our chat classes on April 23, 2008, with a special ritual to honor one of our favorite lwa, Ogoun Feraille.    He is syncretized with St. George and April 23 is St. George’s feast day.  So we will honor both Ogoun Feraille and St. George on this day.

    Many of you have responded to the idea that we are offering a special ritual pack to be used either together with us when we are doing the ritual online or at any other time that you desire.  I am really happy to see such a great response to honoring Ogoun!

    In this ritual pack is a special voodoo oil that Parran Matt and I have formulated especially for Ogoun.  This is actually partially a formulation that I came up with several years ago for Ogoun.  However, with some special input from Paran Matt, this oil feels even more powerful than it did to start with!  There is a "Fire and Iron" concept to this oil, representing some of the most venerated aspects of Ogoun.  If it turns out that you all like it as much as we think you will, we will certainly start to carry it on a regular basis.

    I cannot wait until you all try it out!

    Love, Mambo SamMonarchogoun

  • Free Shipping for a Limited Time!

    Greetings everyone!  I wanted to take a moment to let you all know that right now we are offering free shipping in the USA at www.SPELLMAKER.com. 

    With the cost of fuel rising and postage always going up, we wanted to give you all a break from paying shipping charges for awhile!  There is no limit to how much you can buy and still get free shipping.  So no matter how much your package weighs, there will be absolutely no shipping charge for packages sent within the United States (regular priority mail shipping).

    As always, we appreciate your continued patronage!

    Love, Mambo Sam

  • Chat Class Resumes Wednesday, April 23!

    Greetings everyone!  Happy Sunday to you.  I hope you are enjoying a peaceful and relaxing day.

    I am thrilled to announce that we will be resuming our online chat classes on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time!  If you are not registered for chat may I ask, WHY NOT?  😉   If you are a Spellmaker client, past or present, you are entitled to attend these teaching sessions absolutely free.  Please write to us at office@spellmaker.com for information on how to register for class if you are not already signed up!

    April 23 will mark a very special class for us.  This is the traditional day for the feast of St. George.  St. George is often syncretized with one of our favorite lwa – Ogoun!  To that end, we will be starting back to class with a bang by doing a special ritual for Ogoun and St. George to call upon them for strength, power, health, "slaying of dragons," and much, much more.  If there is something/someone that you need to power over to help your spell casting case along, then you don’t want to miss doing this ritual.

    We have put together a  special Ogoun/St. George ritual pack  that you can use in conjunction with the online ritual.  You can join in the ritual without using this pack, but obviously it certainly will be greatly enhanced if you can use it. 

    I look forward to seeing you all in chat class again!

    Love, Mambo Sam

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  • Moving Forward vs. Moving On

    Happy Saturday everyone.  I hope it is Spring weather where you are and you are enjoying some sunshine and warm breezes! 

    I wanted to discuss a little bit with you about hearing that dreaded statement, "It's time to move on."  You often hear these words in reference to a lost relationship, loss of someone or something important in your life, job loss, etc.  Some well-meaning friend, relative, or counselor may tell you that it is time to "move on."

    The trouble with that statement in general is that no one wants to hear it!  It sounds trite, cliche', and meaningless!  Move on???  I don't want to "move on."  I have an unresolved, unrequited situation.  I have no way to move on!  And that is exactly the problem with being told to move on:  The person telling you that really does have your best interest at heart; they are tired of seeing you unhappy.  Unfortunately, telling you to move on isn't helping because it seems that no one can tell you exactly where it is you are moving on to!

    Without resolution of the situation, you cannot move on from it.  For most of us the translation of "move on" is "give up."  Admit failure.  You have been defeated.  You cannot win.  Everything about those two little words screams of a negative impact on your life.  Leave behind what you love.  None of us wants to do that and as human beings most of us will fight and struggle against moving on.  That's because most of the time we should not be moving on, we should be moving forward.

    Moving forward is a positive action.  It does not mean that we are giving up, admitting defeat, or accepting failure.  What it does mean is that we are not going to let the situation that we have not yet conquered stop us from moving forward to new and exciting challenges! 

    Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that moving forward is easy.  But it is easier than "moving on" because it doesn't mean leaving anything behind! Just because you have not achieved the results you want in a situation doesn't mean that you have to move on and leave that situation behind!  However, I do encourage you to always move forward.  Accept new challenges, new people, and new projects into your life.  Don't allow a not-yet-conquered situation to rule your life in such a way that you miss out on the new and wonderful things that can happen to you.  Sometimes we need to compartmentalize our lives in such a way to remember that we still have a particular goal that is long term, but we also want to enjoy the success we can achieve in other goals, too!

    If you just wallow in your seeming defeat or if you try to put those unresolved things behind you without resolution, you will find yourself stuck in the same old unhappiness day after day.  As human beings we should always be moving forward.  This does not mean to leave our old hopes and dreams behind.  Take them along for the ride!!  You may even find that you discover new ways to conquer even the most difficult of situations! 

    Love, light, and peace,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
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