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Category: Adjunct and Combination Work
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Maman Brigitte’s Ancestor Memorial Candle!
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Practical Color Magick! Keep it Simple!
PRACTICAL COLOR MAGICK
by Mambo Samantha Corfield
Colors have magical associations – especially in creating your own spells. Always use a color theme that matches what you are trying to accomplish.
Many of these color associations are very familiar to us: Red or pink for love, green for money, etc.
Traditional Magickal Color Associations
Red: Sexual Love, Good Health, Strength, Danger, Stamina, Charity
Yellow: Joy, Comfort, Persuasion, Charm, Confidence
Green: Money, Luck, Fertility, Energy
Orange: Stimulation, Encouragement, Attraction, Kindness
Blue: Tranquility, Devotion, Understanding, Health, Sincerity, Truth
Indigo: Depression, Impulsiveness, Ambition, Dignity
Violet: Tension, Power, Peity, Sentiment
Black: Death, Sickness, Removal of a Person, Removal of a Thought or Idea from someone.
Numerology Color Associations
1=Red
2=Orange
3=Yellow
4=Green
5=Blue
6=Indigo
7=Violet
8=Rose
9=Gold
Gemstone Color Properties
Agate: Basically shades of brown, irregularly banded or variegated. Wear for vision or gum problems.
Amethyst: Bluish violet to deep purple in color. Wear for expelling poisons and toning the body.
Bloodstone: Bright green to dark green, contains small spots of red jasper. Wear for excessive bleeding or to prevent hemorrhages.
Chrysolite (Peridot): Usually olive green, sometimes yellow or brown. Wear to prevent fevers and also to prevent nightmares.
Coral: Both red and white coral prevent bleeding. Wear to avert the "evil eye." Wear for scars and ulcers.
Garnet: Deep red. Wear for the heart and as a stimulant.
Jade: Green. Soothing, healing; wear for eye problems, kidneys, help strengthen muscles.
Lapis Lazuli: Blue to violet-blue to greenish blue. Eye problems. A very strong stone.
Ruby: Deep red. Wear for problems of the blood, lack of body warmth, poor circulation.
Topaz: Brown, yellow, or pink. Wear to sooth and calm, banishing nightmares and curing insomnia.
So, how do you use these things? First of all, get creative. Think about what you want to accomplish. Choose your items with a theme to them. When you are purchasing items
for magick, try to shop only for that. Keep your intention in mind while you are shopping for each item. Okay. Now you are home with all your magick stuff, right? Let the items
guide you as to what to do with them. Now we realize that this all sounds somewhat simplistic. But if you are just starting in magick – it is good to keep it simple.
Other option: Go get one of our nifty, handy-dandy spell kits at www.spellmaker.com!
In service,
Mambo Sam
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Lucky Money Spell! Free!
Hey there!
This spell is free to be downloaded and used. It is a sample from our "Spells Only" available at Spellmaker.com! — Mambo Sam
Lucky Money Spell
Equipment needed:
*Play paper money – the larger the denominations, the better.
*Two green candles and one white, big enough to last burning 9 days, 9 minutes a day.
*9 cloves.
*A whole nutmeg.
*Lucky Oil – made from equal parts of pure virgin olive oil and rose oil (rose oil is available at any store that sells essential oils).
*A $1.00, $5.00, or $10.00 bill that you won’t mind donating later.
Spell Casting Steps:
*Inscribe your name down the front of the white candle, using a twig from a green tree.
*On each green candle inscribe three dollar signs.
*Dip your finger in the Lucky Oil and rub it all over the candles repeating 9 times:
“By the power of the elements, I empower you.”
*Set the candles on a table where they will not be disturbed, except by you for 9 days.
*Put the white candle between the two green candles.
*Surround the candles completely with the play money, reserving two large denomination bills.
*Sprinkle the cloves on top of the money.
*Wrap the whole nutmeg up in your real money. Place it in front of the candle with your name on it.
*Each day for 9 days burn the candle for 9 minutes. During these 9 minutes you should concentrate on your luck with money; how you will make the right decisions concerning money, how money will come to you through lotteries, gambling, any “lucky" money
*On the Ninth Day, let the candles burn out completely while you concentrate on your petition.
*On the Ninth Day, take the real money unwrapped from the nutmeg and give it to what you consider a good cause.
*On the Ninth Day, put all the equipment used in the spell together in a safe place.
At the end of 9 days you may discard the equipment discreetly keeping it all together.
Burial is the preferred form of discarding.
NOTE: Keep the nutmeg in your purse, pocket, or wallet as a good luck charm.
Use the cloves in cooking when you want to feel especially lucky (for example, before going gambling).
In Service,
Mambo Sam
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BELTANE! A Time for Renewal.
Hello, everyone!
Happy May to all. Spring often brings about a sense of renewal in us. The trees, birds, and earth itself seem to be coming out of their long winter's sleep.
One of the rituals performed on May 1 is burning a fire for Beltane. Of course, this is also considered "May Day" and is known by other names as well. It is a ritual stemming from Old Gaelic tradition and is celebrated by many Wiccans, Pagans, and other spiritual groups. It is about renewal, protection, fertility,asking for abundance in crops, safety for our children and animals, etc. It is a fun holiday and can be simple, as ours was, or can be much more elaborate (next year, we hope!). In my opinion, you don't have to be any particular religion to benefit from this cleansing and protecting ritual!
Parran Matt and I did the ritual part as the High Priest and Priestess and Sister Bridget was the May Queen. It was simple but powerful with a ritual fire for Beltane. We said our parts and walked around the smoke of the fire to ask for protection and prosperity for ourselves and all those we know and love.
I had mentioned that if people saved their ashes, I would tell them how to use them and here I am to do that!
There are several ways to use these ashes. After reading the list, you might think of some creative ways of your own. I would love to hear them!
1. They are used are for protection. Putting the ashes around the ground of your home. It just takes a little bit. Sometimes they are used on one's body – just rubbing a little bit around your heart area if you are going into a dangerous or scary situation is said to help protect you. It can also be put around areas where you keep animals.
2. The ashes are used to encourage growth. People scatter them in the garden, potted plants, yards, and fields, anywhere that you want to encourage growth. This growth can also be in the form of luck, having enough food, providing for your family, etc.
3. They can also be used to encourage spiritual growth. A little bit can be put in a bath or even mixed in with some kind of oil and anoint yourself with the oil and ashes. If you are a Vodouisant, or like to use Spellmaker oils, you can definitely mix a few of these ashes in any of our oils that would be used to encourage growth of any kind.
4. If your fire was big enough that it left you coals, you can use those coals in magickal writings, veves, wards, drawings of magickal symbols, etc. Commonly, the coals used for writing would be used for petitions in love, life, luck, abundance… rarely is the word "money" used at this time. Mostly it is "abundance, plenitude, bounty" or some similar word.
5. Some people like to save a coal and put in a little bag and use it as a protection charm year round, returning it to the Beltane fire the next year. Then they get another coal from the new fire, and so forth and so on.
6. It isn't uncommon to even mix a little bit of the ash into a big glass of water and drink it. This is said to encourage protection from hexes, enemies, and illness. At one time, these ashes were used as medicine, put into wounds, etc. They are said to aid in fertility. Please use common sense if you are going to imbibe the ashes.
7. What are your ideas? If you bear in mind that these ashes are meant to cleanse, protect, and represent renewal, you might find some very creative ways to use them yourself!
So there are some ways to use your ashes! I also wanted to mention that one should not mix up this tradition with the Catholic tradition of getting ashes on your forehead on Ash Wednesday. That is about repentance and humilty. Actually, there are lots of ways that different ashes are used in spiritual rituals – might expand on this topic later!
Peace out, kiddos,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
P.S. Look for our mighty stag in the pictures! You can barely see him! LOL
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The Poor, Misunderstood 7-Knob Candle!
Greetings everyone! I hope your week is going great!
A very traditional magickal candle is the 7-knob candle. This candle, in one form or another, has been around for maybe thousands of years! I once saw a documentary about the Egyptian pyramids (well I have seen probably thousands of those LOL), and they found remnants of a "knobby" candle in a burial chamber!
However, I do find that many people get confused on exactly how to use a 7-knob candle and wonder exactly what you can accomplish with it! 😉
Now, technically, this candle is called a "7-knob Wishing Candle" and traditionally has been used to make 7 different wishes towards the same situation. You make the wish, burn that knob. When that knob burns down, you can then make a different wish (or perhaps even the same wish again).
You can also use this candle to work on different aspects of a situation. For instance, let's say that you are doing love spell work and you have a somewhat complicated situation. You could use the 7-knob candle, using each knob of the candle to ask for relief or change in one part of the situation. Let's say you have an intruder to deal with, fear of commitment, the HD has financial problems, his children don't like you, he works too many long hours, etc., etc. Maybe these aren't all huge problems. Maybe some of them are just annoyances. However, you could use, for instance, a red 7-knob candle for a love situation (or even a trio of them if you have a lot of issues within your relationship) and petition for change for a different thing on each knob. Also, as I mentioned above, you could repeat petitions within the same candle, say, doing three knobs on him stopping him from spending time with the intruder, two knobs to make him feel more attracted to you, one knob petitioning for his children to like you, and one knob just to ask for peace in your relationship with him. 🙂
Obviously these candles are not going to replace regular spell work, however, whether you have petty annoyances in your relationship or even more serious complications, these candles can help you in a lot of different ways!
The same goes for other situations such as financial ones: You could use one knob to petition for a raise at work, one knob to help you budget better, and so forth and so on!
So if you are looking at a situation in your life and thinking, "Gee, there are a lot of issues here" – you might be in the market for a 7-knob or two!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield
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Staying the Course.
Greetings everyone! Recently I was talking to a long-term client of mine who felt like she was confused about her goal in spell work. She has been working a long time towards a particular goal and while the goal has often seemed in reach, and there has been good progress in her case, she just hasn't quite achieved full results. She noticed that she recently has become confused about what her true goal is in doing her spell work.
We talked for awhile about "way back when" when she first came to me and what she wanted then. It was interesting to see how that goal has shifted and evolved over the years. However, when we talked about it, even though there are some differences now in the goal, the core goal remains the same. It struck me as really important that she stay the course on her core goal even with the realization that even though there are differences in the goal, the main purpose of the work remains the same.
This isn't the first time that someone has come to me who seems to have lost sight of why they started working magickally in the first place! Sometimes the work itself takes on a life of itself and we can mistake the work for the goal! 🙂
My recommendation to her was to use a Cosmic Voodoo Destiny Egg in order to help her remember and get back on track with her goal. Also, if the goal has truly drastically changed, working with this Egg kit will also help with knowing and understanding that. There is nothing wrong with a goal changing, growing, evolving over time; the only danger lies in not recognizing that change for what it is! Using the Egg to ask for guidance as to "where am I going next" or "where should I be doing next" and listening to that guidance is a really great tool!
She has reported back to me that after even the very first session she felt re-focused and re-energized on her goal. She has re-worked her path to her goal in such a way that everything now seems more realistic and true to her. :-) Now she no longer feels like she is working towards some nebulous goal that is no longer germane to today's life! She realized that while the circumstances around her goal have changed, the actual goal has not. Now she is able to work on those circumstance to uncloud her goal and make it a clear reach for her again!
Like I said, she certainly isn't the first person to lose sight of her original goal so I thought it would be good to share with you how she used the Destiny Egg to help her out of her own magickal woods!
Love, light, and peace,
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What the Funk?
Hi everyone!
I don't know what is in the air, the water, or the oscillating energy textile vibrations of the Mars connection (okay, I made that last one up)! Seriously, what is going on out there? So many folks that I know are in a huge funk right now – is it the economy? Is it some sort of global funkittude (yep, made that one up, too). Is it the political atmosphere? Disillusionment? What is causing this funk? (But, just think – if we get rid of that "k" then it turns into "fun!")
Well, if only it were that easy – I can drop that "k" and get FUN! Truth is, it usually takes a lot more than dropping a letter to get us out of a funk!
Not even the best of good articles will completely do the trick – though this one is pretty great!
http://www.highexistence.com/choose-happiness-5-ways-to-get-out-of-a-funk
I do believe understanding our funk is key! Facing that situation head-on, although frightening, is going to help us much more than trying to hide from it. Are you grieving? Are you broke? Are you broken-hearted? Have you stopped believing in yourself? Do you just not give a damn right now?
Guess what? You are not alone. You might feel isolated, but truthfully a few trips around the Internet will let you see that you have a lot of company. Heck, a trip around your friends and family might let you see that you have a lot of company! I truly believe that reaching out in some way to someone is key to helping shed that funk! Someone who will listen to you rant, rave, and probably finally break down in tears is invaluable. I have found that sometimes just verbalizing my feelings, out loud (not in an email or text) can be so helpful. When I am done, it seems that I can, somehow, face those challenges that were dragging me down.
So I am going to say step one is talk to someone! All the self help tips in the world won't help you much if you don't feel like you have someone to talk to! Find that one person you can blather all the crap out to – hopefully someone who will just sit and listen – and then take a deep breath and figure out what, amongst all the self help stuff, can help you. The article I reference above truly is a good one – it makes a lot of sense. But, if you read the article, you will see that the gentleman who wrote it, first had sort of a "breakdown" to someone he loved! THEN he was able to go on to his self-help techniques!
Of course, at Spellmaker, we sell lots of stuff for helping with negative energy – white candles, baths, etc. And I do recommend them, obviously! Sometimes you have to keep working with things – white candles are a good example of that. Using the white male or female image candles on yourself can sometimes be an ongoing thing! It just depends on how much stress you have in your life! There isn't anything wrong with feeling like you need to spark up your candle every so often and burn off that negative energy!
But most of all, I want you to talk with someone you trust! Just for a minute, wallow in and embrace that funk! Tell them what you are feeling, tell them if you feel you are at the end of your rope… you might even tell them that you aren't looking for advice – you just want to vent! 😉 Then, look for the things that will help you with the situations at hand!
I know that things seem insurmountable sometimes; I have a pile of stuff going on right now that seems exactly that! I know that I will get through it. But I share in your funk! Maybe we can share in getting rid of it, too! 🙂 Oh, and I almost forgot - take it easy on yourself!!!!! Not everything is your fault – I swear!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com
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Ceremonial Clothing
Happy Tuesday, one and all! :-) I am reposting this blog about ceremonial clothing because for awhile my mother-in-law, the talented and wonderful Eileen, was unable to do the apron and scarf sets because she had a double knee replacement. She is all healed and back in the garden and at the sewing machine! ;-) So for those of you who have been waiting to order, she is available again for your orders.
Love,
Mambo Sam
Hello everyone! As many of you already know, we have recently begun to sell New Orleans Voodoo Apron and Scarf sets. :-) These are made as a collaboration between my lovely mother-in-law, Eileen, and myself. Many of you already know Eileen from the conventions! Some of you have seen her other handiwork in the Erzulie Voodoo Pillows (which we will be offering up again soon!). She is extremely creative and talented.
Many questions have come up surrounding the apron/scarf sets – how to use them, why, what do they represents, do you need one or more than one or any at all, etc.
Let's first just talk briefly about ceremonial clothing in general. Needless to say, Voodoo isn't the only religion or practice with ceremonial clothing. Nearly every major religion has some form of ceremonial clothing, though most of the time this garb is used by the clergy within the religion. Voodoo is a bit different in that everyone who practices ritual or serves the Lwa (Voodoo Spirits) is entitled to wear certain ceremonial clothing.
In Haitian Voodoo, there are many different types of ceremonial clothing – white clothing for Rada ceremonies, red clothing for Petro ceremonies, different color combinations for different events! In fact, different Houses may have different colors that they use when going to public events, such as Rara, to distinguish themselves from each other. Ceremonial clothing is used to honor sometimes all Lwa, one Lwa, or the House from which you come.
In New Orleans Voodoo, we tend to wear a lot of white! I have a theory that mostly that is because it gets so gosh-darned hot there! LOL. Of course, the same is true of Haiti, so that might shoot a hole in my theory. Let me just say that in all my years of growing up going to rituals, almost all the time it was with everyone dressed in white. The exception was the usage of brightly colored aprons! I was taught that the aprons were an homage to the slaves and houseworkers and hair dressers, etc., that brought us and shared with us their beautiful religion. Naturally, we also honor the Lwa in wearing these aprons and head scarves.
At www.spellmaker.com, we have taken these aprons a step further in trying to make them as beautiful as possible and to honor individual lwa through the use of colors, patterns, and decorative items on the apron. For instance, the Erzulie Freda apron below was made especially for the lovely Khouzhan Avery and it is a beautiful violet-pink luxurious material. An applique of a beautiful butterfly (as a nod to Ogoun Feraille) is on the bodice, and it is trimmed in gold for Erzulie's love of golden things! The head scarf has three golden rings (an homage to her three husbands) attached to one end so they will fall down Khouzhan Avery's back of the neck when the scarf is tied. The pictures don't really do the aprons justice because it is hard to show the little details!
When an apron/scarf set is ordered, the first thing we do is see what we know about the person! If you are our regular customer, that is pretty easy since we get to know you pretty well! :-) If you are not, I may email you and ask you a few questions to get a feel for what your personal preferences are. Next, Eileen and I go through material, beads, buttons, trim and decorations. I start out by asking the particular lwa you have picked to guide me and show me what s/he wants or likes. It is funny how readily they vocalize their desires! Both Eileen and myself have felt immediate likes and dislikes! They have their ways of guiding us, that is for sure!
Once we decide on everything for the apron/scarf, I consecrate every item she will be using, even the thread. :-) Then off to work she goes to do her magick! Once the apron is finished, I consecrate the finished product in your name and the name of the Lwa for whom you have asked the apron/scarf to be created. The set is then shipped to you!
The set can be used for any Voodoo magickal endeavor you are doing – spell work, adjunct work, etc. Even if that particular lwa is not usually involved in that particular work it is okay to still wear your apron/scarf and ask them to assist your work and bring their blessing into it. I certainly do not see any wrong way you could use it. Some folks have reported just wearing the apron and scarf when they were meditating, or working on computer projects at home that had nothing to do with voodoo, etc. They felt help from the lwa and felt they concentrated better and were more productive!
One person was having migraines and put their apron and scarf on and just laid down for awhile and ask for the lwa's help, fell into a deep sleep, and woke up feeling wonderful! I think there are just a million creative ways you could use your apron and scarf. In fact, once more people have them, I will ask everyone to please let us know and we can post that!
Hunky and talented Khouzhan Menfo kindly shared this picture of him in his set for Capitaine Agwe. There is more than a nod in this set to Agwe's wife, LaSirene! There is a tiny lighthouse charm on one corner of the head scarf. The material was patterned with whales and Eileen and I could not buy it fast enough when we saw it! We were giggling like little school girls, especially when from the shelf above the material a roll of silver trim FELL OFF right into Eileen's hand! LOL.
Our sweet and lovely and wonderful and adorable (oh how I can go on!) Sister Bridget, shared pictures of her aprons on her Facebook Page. Her is a picture of her Gran Bwa apron (of course it has a matching headscarf!) It has cool beading and there are buttons that are leaf shaped on it. She also has a beautiful apron to Ogoun Badagris on her Facebook page.
All in all, these aprons and head scarves are a labor of love and much time is spent in the planning of them and choosing things to go with them. :-) If you have any questions, please let us know!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield