Category: Adjunct and Combination Work

  • The Five Minute Service

    Hello everyone!

    People tell me all the time  they would do more service/ritual to the Lwa (Vodou Spirits) but they "just don't have the time."  Now I realize that we could go back at them saying that they should or could "make the time."  However, in today's world, that sometimes is not as easy as it sounds!   But almost anyone can find five minutes in a day to do my quickie service below. 

    The service does assume that you have a few things on hand and have some basic knowledge of ritual:  Candles (keeping a few white candles on hand is great because you can use them for any lwa), a glass of water or other beverage, and a small food offering that would be appropriate for almost any lwa (something simple such as a cookie or even a piece of bread).

    You can do this quick service almost anywhere! 

    1.  Put your candle with a glass of water or other beverage on a counter or table.

    2.  As you light the candle, ask Papa Legba to "please open the gate for me and allow ___________ (which ever lwa you are honoring) to pass over."

    3.  "Present" the glass of water by holding it out to the East, West, North, and South.  Say, "For you __________________ (which ever lwa you are honoring)."

    4.  Place the water back down near the candle.

    5.   "Present" the food offering as per #3 above.  Place it down next to the water and candle.

    6.  Take one or two minutes to talk with the lwa you have asked to come over to you.  You might have a request or perhaps you are just wanting to honor that particular lwa.

    7.   Thank the lwa and Papa Legba for their time and help.

    8.  If you can, leave the candle burning (safely) for a little while longer while you do other things.  This is a great little service to do while you are getting ready for the day.   You can start it up, get showered and dressed, and then end the service.  If you need to close out the service more quickly, then just proceed to Step #9.

    9.  Extinguish your candle and ask Papa Legba to "close the gate when it pleases you."  You can leave the food and water  for disposal until later or even the next day.  If you need to get rid of it more quickly it is great if you can pour the water outside and leave the cookie/food outside somewhere.  If you cannot, then just dispose of the water down the sink and wrap the cookie/food up in brown paper (such as just a brown paper bag) and throw it away.

    There you did a little service in five minutes!  And yes, it counts.  Yes, it can help.  Yes, it is pleasing to the lwa.  Folks have a tendency to think that the lwa will only respond to big, elaborate 
    service.  That just isn't true.  Every service that is well intended is well received!

    Please continue to have a great and safe weekend!

    Love,
    Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

    Burning-candle 

     

  • Overlooked Helpful Things!

    Hi there, everyone!

    Someone asked me a question the other day about what things in our www.spellmaker.com product line did I think got the most overlooked – what did people forget about that might be helpful for them?  It was really such an interesting question!  :-)  This person has had a unique challenge that they have been working on for awhile now and wondered if they overlooking something that could help them. 

    It really did get me to thinking and I thought that I would share some of my answers to them with you, at least as much as I can without divulging information about their case. So here is my list of overlooked products:

    1.  The Voodoo Self Improvement Doll:   This ranks way up there in overlooked and underused products.  Most clients are very interested in changing someone else, or changing how someone else thinks.  :-)  Nothing wrong with that, however, the ability to "change" or improve one's self can be crucial to a case.  For instance, let's say you are working on a love case where you were with someone and they broke up with you.  You know for sure that there are some qualities about you that caused the break up.  There are some things that your partner expressed to you that needed changing or that they didn't care for.  Now as long as we aren't talking about your inherent belief system or something that is very important to you, why not try to change or improve that quality about yourself?  Chances are, it probably is something that you know needs changing!  ;-) 

    Also, let's say that YOU personally think that there was something about you that may have negatively impacted your relationship, some behavior that you feel needs changing.  Don't be afraid to use this doll!  :-) 

    What if you are working on spells like Get a Job(tm) or Big Money(tm)?  Do you feel like maybe your job skills are a little rusty or perhaps your interview methods aren't perfect?  Maybe you are nervous about interviewing?  Maybe you fear that money and wealth are not for you?  Maybe you have accepted your "fate" as being someone who just doesn't deserve money and wealth?  Using the self-improvement doll to change your thinking is perfect.

    There are so many things that we overlook about ourselves that can impact any kind of case we are working on!  Remember that you are an intergral part of your own case, not just the people you are trying to affect with your spell work!  🙂

    2.  Cosmic Voodoo Destiny Egg and Cosmic Voodoo Spirituality Egg:   Again, this is about the awareness of "self"  (a much overlooked subject when people do spell work).   The Cosmic Voodoo Destiny Egg can be used in a number of useful ways in spell work – especially love spell work.   Why not use this egg to create the "destiny" of you and the person you want to be with?  Using the visualization and spell techniques of the egg – you can use this tool as a perfect adjunct work to love spell work – CREATE the DESTINY that you WANT with you and the person you want to be with!

    Don't know what you want your destiny to be?  Petition for guidance and signs to see what direction you want your life to go in?

    Again with job, luck, and money spell work  - create that destiny!  Certainly with adjunct work such as the Destiny Egg you can reinforce your spell work adding in this work where you start to create the destiny that you wish to live.

    The Spirituality Egg can also be used in different ways for many different goals as well.  One thing that is very common is that people are very hurt, angry, and lost when they start spell work and often, too, when a case goes on for longer than anyone hopes that it will.  We start to lose faith, lose energy, and lose belief even in our selves!  The Spirituality Egg is the perfect way to renew your spiritual energy, no matter what case you are working on!  If you feel yourself getting down and feeling lost and feeling like nothing can work for you, using the Spirituality Egg to petition for spiritual strength to go on, to boost your spiritual energy, and to deepen your spiritual understanding is a great way to enhance your spell work (and your life in general!).

    3. High John the Conquerer Root Bag:  Many folks do use these root bags.  However, lots of folks don't use them, don't know what they are for or how they can help them.  High John root bags are one of those things that I feel that anyone who is going to do magick on a regular basis should have!  High John root is traditionally used to strengthen any and all magick!  It is also a personal luck and guidance  and protection mechanism.  It is something that people should keep for a lifetime and it has a tendency to take on a living energy of its own.  Many people just won't be without theirs!  I personally have had mine about 40 years.  :-) 

    Simply used to put on an altar to strengthen the magick, bring luck and guidance, and strengthen one's own personal magickal powers are some of the ways to use this bag. 

    4.Holy Hyssop Bath Additive:   Certainly this is not a substitute for something like the Milk of Damballh White Bath.  However, not every situation warrants doing a complete white bath.  There are days when you feel a temporary flood of negative emotions or you are just down or just need a quick rejuvenation!  That is where the Holy Hyssop Bath Additive can come in!  It is a great thing to just keep on hand for a quick bath to refresh yourself, refresh your energy, remove the negativity of the day, etc.  This can certainly keep you from building up negative energy, especially if you already did a white bath!  

    5. The New Orleans Voodoo Lucky Doll:  This special doll is really underused!  It is a perfect way to bring more luck into the situation you are working on – love, money, etc.  It is a doll that you can keep around and just use every so often to boost a situation.  Going to see the person you are working on?  Do a quick session with this doll beforehand.  Going on an interview?  Again, do a quick session with this doll.  It isn't something you need to do every day, but certainly it is something that falls under the category of situational magickal  – you want to influence a particular situation at a particular time to enhance an opportunity for success right at that moment.  :-)  This is a product that you can just keep around and pull it out when you know you are going into a circumstance where you could use some luck!

    So there are a few things that can be very helpful in day-to-day spell work, enhance your work, boost your adjunct work, etc.  🙂

    Thanks to the client who asked the question in the first place!  It really did make me think. 🙂

    Love, light, and peace,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com

    Conventionlabel 

  • New! Vodou Spirit Bracelets!

    Happy Monday, everyone!  Happy Labor Day!

    I am really excited to be offering another item into our jewelry and charms dedicated to the lwa! This time it is bracelets… very nice, really sturdy – made with rubber, leather, and stainless steel.  Each is consecrated to a particular lwa.

    There is something especially powerful about a good bracelet that has been blessed to bring out the power of a particular lwa.  Bracelets are generally worn on the wrist where the pulse points are bringing the power out into your hands – the hands that do magick and spell work!  :-)  Needless to say, putting something powerful right onto the very source of your energy flow is very desirable.

    Plus, I think these bracelets look really great, too!  Bonus! :-)  I am definitely hoping to add more to this collection!

    Check them out on the page with the Vodou Charms and Earrings!

    I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday!

    Love, light, and peace, 
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com

    Damballahbracelet

  • On the right track? Now what?

    Willrogers

    Hello everyone!

    Are you on the right track?  Do you have a spell work goal? Are you focused on what you hope to accomplish?  If you are, then you are on the right track!  To move forward on the right track, though, you still have to work at that goal. 

    Knowing the goal and just pining after it simply will not work!  You have to put the "work" in spell work. So many of my good folks out there are just on the brink of success with their spell work when they seem to just sit down on the track instead of continuing to travel it.  ;-)  Get up, get moving.  Remember that every candle you light, every incense you burn, and every petition that you chant brings you just that much closer to success.

    God, the Ancestors, and Les Lois help those who help themselves.  Get cracking! 

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com

  • Doing it with your Duck – Part Deux! (Reconsecration Ritual!)

    Note:  Well, I don't know why it didn't, but this was supposed to post yesterday as a follow up to the post about using your www.spellmaker.com products that you have laying around. Anyway, see below!

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    Hello everyone!  So yesterday I was blogging about using the Spellmaker products that you have laying around!  They can't do you much good if you don't actually use them.  ;-)  So to that end, if you have products laying around that are older than a year, it is a really good idea to reconsecrate them.  Even if you don't, they will still have benefit, but it will really up their power if you take the time to reconsecrate them.  You can do more than one product at a time, but I wouldn't do more than three at a time for the best effect, I think. 

    Note: Where is says "spell kit" it can be any product of ours!

    Here is how to reconsecrate your products from Spellmaker that are over a year old:

    Note: You can print out this ritual to put by your side to read from it as you reconsecrate the spell kit.

    Wash your hands and put the spell kit on some surface like a desk or table. Place a glass of water next to it.

    Sit down in front of the kit.

    With the index finger of your left hand, trace a cross [like this sign: "+"] in front of the spell kit.

    Dip the fingers of your left hand into the glass of water, put your hand out to your left side and shake the water off your fingers three times toward the floor or carpet.  Dip your fingers again into the water and turn around directly behind the spell kit to shake your fingers three times to sprinkle the water. Repeat dipping your fingers into the glass and then shaking your fingers three times to sprinkle water to your right side.

    Pick up the glass and drink the rest of the water.

    Now, as you're sitting there facing the spell kit, rotate your upper body (from the waist up, similar to using a hula hoop) in a circular motion three times counterclockwise, i.e., start turning to your left.

    When you've finished rotating your upper torso three times, then say:

    "Hey, Legba, let my words carry to the other side. Open the gates, please, Legba, to let the helpers pass over."

    [Pause]

    Clap your hands three times and say aloud to the helper Loi for this spell:  

    "Baron, Baron, Baron Samedi, come to my aid to reconsecrate this spell kit."

    [Pause]

    Now, pick up the spell kit and hold it up, presenting it reverently to our Lois (Papa Legba and Baron Samedi) and say aloud:

    "Papa Legba and Baron Samedi, I present this spell kit to you and ask for your blessing to reconsecrate it.  This spell kit was originally blessed and consecrated over a year ago by your servant, Rev. Samantha Kaye.

    "Because it's been over a year, that which was once new is now old. But there is no time with you – all things which are old can become new again. I ask now that you send your power to renew all of the strength, power and ingredients for this ________ [insert the name of the spell kit]

    "I honor you and ask for your blessings as you reconsecrate this spell kit to renew its power."

    [Pause as you're still holding up the spell kit to them.]

    Then say aloud:

    "I thank you for your blessings and for reconsecrating this spell kit."

    Place the spell kit back on the table or desk.

    Say aloud:

    "Baron Samedi, thank you for your help and if it pleases you, you may now depart."

    "Papa Legba, thank you and if it pleases you, you may close the gates now and depart."

    Your kit is now reconsecrated and ready to use.

    Love,light, and peace,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com 

    Erzuliekit

  • What are you doing with YOUR duck?

    "Getting your ducks in a row is not nearly as powerful as actually doing something with your duck." Seth Godin

    Besides some pretty funny imagery that comes up when reading that quote, it really rings true with me with some of the good folks that I speak with during consultations.  Very often I will ask, "what of our magickal products do you have on hand to work with?"  I am trying to find out what they already have on hand that might help the situation for which they asked to consult me on.

    So pretty often the answer is candle magick kits, incense, or a voodoo doll, or some oils, etc. Surprisingly, many of the items that they have are ones that they have never used despite the fact that they already have on hand the very things that could have helped them!  Their "ducks" were all sitting in a pretty row, neatly packaged, in the back of a closet, or in a drawer, or in a box under the bed.

    What are you doing with your "duck?"  Are you experiencing some issues, problems, concerns with your case?  Do you have candles, oils, doll, laying around unused?  Pick them up!  Dust them off!  They are there to help you!

    Remember, also, your caseworker is there to help you!  If you have www.spellmaker.com products laying around that you haven't used or stopped using, please consider picking them up again.  Don't just sit around accepting the things that might be happening to you, especially if you have the tools already there to help you! :-)  Your caseworker can help you tremendously in putting together a program of usage for the things you have!

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield 
    www.spellmaker.com

    Duck

  • Milk of Damballah White Bath Ongoing Possibilities!

      White bath (2)
    Happy Saturday, everyone!  As Sister Bridget recently mentioned in her blog, we now have “refill” or “replacement” packs for our Haitian Vodou Formula Baths! 


    One of our most popular baths, the Milk of Damballah™ White Bath is something that I have actually been recommending to certain clients for years as something that can be re-done in parts.  Most of the time these clients were folks who were working on especially hard love case, tough job or money goal, anything that seemed fraught with ongoing negativity.  In those cases, I recommended that they do the original bath and then buy another one and take the herbs out of the herb packet and divide the other part of the bath mixture and do a refresh on the bath over several days or weeks, as necessary.


    In those cases, I recommended that they just use a little bit at a time any time they were feeling down or sad or negative about their particular case, no matter what the reason.  Having done the original bath, they could easily call back on that energy.  The great thing about now having the refill packs is that you no longer have to keep buying the complete white bath if you have recently done one. 


    One thing, however,like Sister Bridget said, we hate to keep harping on it, but you must first do the original bath before using the refresher pack.  If you don’t, you are wasting your time using the refresher pack. 🙂  Also, if it has been more than a year since you did the original bath, I would suggest redoing the original bath in its entirety if you have not done any refreshers.  However, if you are doing refreshers regularly, you can just keep going with that!


    Especially with the white bath, it would be nice to think that you would be rid of negativity forever!  What a world that would be!  Unfortunately, we are all bombarded by negative images, thoughts, and energies almost every day of our life.  Getting rid of them can lead to better health, attainment of goals, lifting of depression and so much more.  Yes, sometimes you have to work at it, but the results are so worth it!


    Love to all!

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

  • Love Potion #9 Update!

    Hello everyone!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, that was a lot of potion that I made yesterday!  LOL.  It was so much fun to do it that way, though.  I really felt so much energy and good vibrations from doing those big old pots of love potion!!

    Even though I made quite a bit of it, I am going to only leave it up for sale another 24 hours.  When all the orders are filled that already came in, if I have any left over, I will put those jars up for sale again.  Right at this minute, I know that I have quite a few "extra" jars left, but I obviously want to make sure that everyone who ordered gets their order!  So, this is only going to be available another 24 hours, but, as I said, if there is extra, I will put it back up for sale. 

    For those of you who made your own potion, and those of  you who are getting the potion I made, remember there are a lot of ways to use this potion.  I believe Sister Bridget is going to post some ideas on how to use the potion.  Remember, a little bit of this potion goes a long way!  You only need to add in a few drops of it to something else – not necessarily to get your intended to drink a whole glass of it!  🙂 Have fun with it!

    Love,  Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

  • Happy 09/09/09 to you!

    Hello all you magickal creatures!  :-)  Parran Matt and I are preparing all the ingredients to make our Love Potion #9 for those of you who ordered it!  We have all the big pots in the house filling up with wine.  I picked the basil and roses right out of our own garden and we harvested the apple seeds last night (I am going to be making a lot of apple pie filling later on!). 

    Don't forget, though, this is a great day to do ANY magick, say prayers, light a candle, do whatever spiritual endeavors you like.  The power of the triple 3's in the 09/09/09 day is sure to give a huge boost to whatever magick you are doing!

    Even if you can't do any magick today, try to allow the energy and power of this day wash over you.  Make it a lucky day for you!  Do something wonderful for yourself and someone else – remember that magick needs a carrier!  Be the magickal carrier today – spread joy and luck from your heart to the heart of others.

    Love, Mambo Sam

    www.spellmaker.com

  • The New Charms are Ready!!!!

    Hello everyone!  Just a quick note to let you all know that the first batch of new charms are ready!  I cannot even tell you how excited we are to offer these.  They are so nice and such a good quality… all shiny stainless steel on black leather cords with stainless steel clasps.  Nice!

    Also, we are doing things a bit differently this time with charms:  Each charm is dedicated to a specific lwa and you will know who that lwa is. Our old charms were dedicated a little bit differently and worked great, but we are feeling these are going to be even better.  Now this doesn't mean throw your old charms away!  NO way!  However, you can use these with them or alone.

    One thing that was a little disappointing about the old charms was that over the years the manufacturing of them had degenerated quite a bit.  When we first started carrying them almost 15 years ago, they were much better.  But as time passed, we noticed that we were getting a more inferior quality.  Now, that would not affect the overall efficacy of the charm, but still, we want to be giving you something nice for your money, too.  I mean I could consecrate a paper clip and it would have some power, but no one particularly wants to wear that… hmmm, wait, I think I saw a girl wearing a paper clip earring the other day so nevermind!  LOL.

    Anyway, go check them out!!  We are excited!  Can you tell?  😉

    www.spellmaker.com/amulets.htm

    Love, Mambo Sam