Hi there-
New photo album has been posted here.
Hope you are all having a great week!
Light and Love
Sister Bridget
Tag: voodoo
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Check out the Moon tonight….It is SuperSized!
Tonight, the moon will be closest to the Earth than it has been in the last twenty years! If you get a chance tonight, go out and take a look 😉 If it is warm enough where you are, sit a few minutes and contemplate the meaning of life! It should be a really awesome sight!
And tomorrow, of course, HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!!!
Light and Love
Sister Bridget
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Songs for Sobo! What is your favorite?
With our Spellmaker Family's Annual Sobo Prosperity Ritual approaching, naturally our favorite little Sobo song pops in our heads 🙂 What other songs might we play during this ritual? Remember, Sobo is considered one of the lwa of the sky and is said to control lightning, thunder, and rain. Bade is considered to control the wind. Together, they have control of the elements of nature. Due to their elemental powers, they are often called upon to help us feel secure! Think of terms such as "raining money," "pennies from heaven," etc.
Here are a few to start us off…..
Money for Nothing- Dire Straights
Pay Me My Money Down- Springsteen
Then, one of my all time favorites, the Money Song by Monty Python 🙂
Do you have a favorite song about money? Post yours here and you may win a prize!
Light and Love
Sister Bridget
The Money Song by Monty Python
I've got ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas.
I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge.
I've got lots of lovely lire.
Now the Deutschmark's getting dearer,
And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge.There is nothing quite as wonderful as money.
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash.
Some people say it's folly,
But I'd rather have the lolly.
With money you can make a splash.There is nothing like a newly minted pound.
Money, money, money, money.
Everyone must hanker
For the butchness of a banker.
It's accountancy that makes the world go 'round.You can keep your Marxist ways,
For it's only just a phase,
For it's money, money, money makes the world go 'round.…Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, moneeeeey!
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Great New Offering! Power Couple Voodoo Lamps featuring Ogoun and Erzulie Freda!
Just in time for our February month long Family ritual to Erzulie Freda!
Customized Voodoo Lamps to the Power Couple Ogoun and Erzulie Freda! Harness the power of this couple's love in a customized lamp ritual performed for your specific request.
Introductory Special for the month of February, the Power Couple Lamp is priced the same as the Voodoo Lamp to Ogoun 🙂 After ordering, just put "Power Couple Lamp" on your form, along with your special request. It's that simple! If you have any questions about this special offering, please email me at bridget@spellmaker.com
This is going to be a wonderful month! I can feel it already 🙂
In Service,
Sister Bridget
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Resurrection of Faith
Hello everyone! In reading my dear Khouzhan Delilah's post about "I'm Losing Faith" I felt it was a good time to repost this that I has posted a few years ago at Easter. It isn't Easter yet, obviously, but faith has no season.
Faith is not an easy task! Most of all I believe you should have faith in yourself before anything else! :-) After that, the rest of what you have faith in is up to you!
Love, Mambo
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REPRINTED FROM 2008: Greetings friends! Of course, as many of us celebrate the Easter holiday today, I cannot help but have my thoughts turn to Spring, renewal, and another chance to grow something wonderful. Every year at this time, I feel refreshed and renewed of spirit – just by the very fact that the plants are starting to bud, my mother-in-law in preparing her garden for the Victory feast that she grows every year, and I do my annual Easter egg hunt for my grandchildren.
Resurrection is also an integral part of the thoughts of Easter and spring. The story of the resurrection of Christ reminds me that faith is a powerful tool in our lives. If one is a true believer in the Christian faith, then you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven! That is a powerful faith!
One of the challenges we often have with faith is it is one of those things that no one can truly explain successfully. As St. Thomas Aquinas said, “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
I have spoken many times about how easy it is to have any kind of faith when things are going well, but when things are not going well our faith seems to lag. We wonder if there is anyone anywhere actually out there listening to our pleas! Is there where you are right now? Is you faith flagging? Questioned? Lost altogether? Can your faith be resurrected? Or will it just lie dormant until things get good for you again and THEN you can believe that there is "something" out there helping us in our day-to-day lives? And when things do get good again, will you just figure it is about time something good happened, or will you believe that a power stronger than your own human fraility reached out and helped you?
Personally I always believe that Les Lois, God, the Saints, and our Ancestors are ALWAYS listening. I also believe that we may not always get what we want. I would never deign to try to explain why that is; my belief is that when I don't get what I want, there is a reason for it. Sometimes I find out the reason later, sometimes I may never know.
Sometimes I can feel my faith waivering: Where are they? Why can't I have what I want right now? Where is my candy? I know that happens to you, too! But it's okay, that petulant six-year-old child lives in all of us. I think the important thing to remember to do is even in your darkest moment allow yourself some faith. Even if it is just the tiniest shred of faith, it is still a powerful thing. Have no doubt: I have had many crises of faith; some really terrible things have happened in my life. But that candle of faith has always shined in my heart even though it's little flame has been pretty small sometimes. Don't let anything blow out the candle in your heart!
So on this day when a large portion of the world is celebrating the Resurrection, think about whether or not your faith needs resurrecting. What can you do to help that along? The answer is different for everyone. Sometimes counting what blessings you HAVE received in life can be helpful, but that is not always the answer for everyone. Sometimes those blessings seem too few and far between! So there is no easy answer to renewing and resurrecting your faith. However, I do encourage you to try, sometimes just the very act of trying has profound effects.
I wish you all peace, love, harmony, health, and most of all, faith: Faith in yourself, faith in your abilities, and faith in being part of the great Cosmic Consciousness of humankind.
Love, light, and peace, Mambo Sam
“When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly”
Patrick Overton
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Valentine’s Ritual Countdown! 🙂
Hello everyone! Well, it seems like Christmas just passed and we are talking about our annual Valentine's Day Ritual to Erzulie Freda! As the years have passed in doing this ritual, I find that I look forward to it more and more.
First off, there is the shopping for it! As many of you know, we are pretty firm believers in Dollar Store Voodoo, with all the shiny trinkets and doo-dads that can be used to make a great altar. Of course, we have many luxurious and special items for Erzulie Freda that we have collected over the years, but it is really a lot of fun to put together the Valentine's altar with, well, Valentine's goodies!
Second, I have noticed over the years how the petitions that people send in have evolved. In the beginning, the petitions seemed very cut-and-dried: " I love Fred (or Frederica), please let him/her love me." Those petitions have evolved into asking for love for everyone and all kinds of love – the love that peace would bring, love for children, charitable love, brotherly love, etc. Many have sent in petitions for those they knew were in different kinds of need. So petitions for healing love, financial love, and job love have abounded, too!
I certainly do not see anything wrong with that at all! Just the very word "love" encompasses such a rich variety of meanings from loving ice cream to loving our husbands, wives, children, parents, and everything beyond and in between! Looking at Valentine's Day as an opportunity to experience and share love of all kinds paints a beautiful broad spectrum of love that goes beyond paper hearts and yummy chocolates!
As we prepare for this coming Valentine's Ritual, I propose that we all see how creative we can get in our petitioning this year! What forms of love can you radiate, choose to spread, and make a wish about? Don't worry about sending in petitions that don't seem like the "norm!" There is NO norm when it comes to love – it is supposed to be open, crazy, fabulous, and it is supposed to mean whatever you personally want it to mean! So don't be stopped by what you think someone else thinks you should be petitioning! Send all your open-armed, open-minded, open-spirited petitions right on in! (See the link above!).
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield
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Is a “New Year New You” Necessary?
Good morning, everyone! As we all head back to work in the shiny new year, many thoughts turn to makeovers, resolutions, changing one’s self. The beginning of a new year is always a great time to make those resolutions to change things that we were not so happy with last year!
I have noticed with myself that I often tend to go overboard on resolutions, like so many people do! Unfortunately, that is a great way to set yourself up for failure. But, I do believe that there is a great deal of validity in bringing in the new year with a new version of yourself. Sometimes it might just be a matter of firmly deciding to leave last year in the past where it belongs. If you had a particularly bad year in 2010, now is a great time to decide to try to let go of whatever negativity, pain, or trauma that you had. You CAN take it with you, but why? Even if problems of the past are still unresolved, you can leave the last months of negativity behind – cleanse yourself of them, and decide that this is a NEW beginning to solving old problems. Sure, we sell products for cleansing – Lady Samantha’s Hex Removal Kit, white candles, Milk of Damballah white bath, etc. and those are great to use. However, sometimes just making a very resolute promise to yourself to start over, even if it is with old challenges, can be very effective!
Sometimes we cannot see how to change or, with some folks, why! I get tons of letters from people who can tell me exactly how they want their intended partner to change, but very little of how they could or should change. Making a resolution to be more self-aware, take responsibility for some of what is going on in your life, could be just the thing to help some people. I am not talking about blaming yourself for everything that happens – that is just as unhealthy as being totally unaware of what role you play in your own life. Look for the balance in your life – drop the “poor pitiful me” victim attitude OR the “everything is my fault” martyr attitude. Instead realize that you cannot control everything, but you can control your own actions, attitudes, and self-awareness. Now that is a resolution!
So keep those resolutions realistic but be willing to accept, create, or believe in a miracle!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield
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Happy New Year!
Hello everyone and a big wish for a Happy New Year to all! It is always so invigorating and exciting to start a brand new year. I hope that your 2011 will be filled with wonder, joy, excitement, and magick!
Looking out over the Spellmaker 2011 plans, it is great to see some old favorites coming up – the annual Erzulie’s Valentine’s Day Ritual, the start up again of the Free Prayer Group in February, of course the annual St. Patrick’s Day ritual to Sobo – not to mention that we will be doing another video voodoo conference this year! Plus, we are planning to do a big free ancestor ritual to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of my father on 11/11/11. It will be a great birthday party and an open party to honor your own ancestors.
Needless to say, there will be more public events that we will be doing, so please do stay tuned for more info!
In the meantime, take care of yourselves and have a safe and peaceful holiday weekend. Love to all!
Mambo Samantha Corfield
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Prayer Group for Pets!
Hi There,
Over the years I have been working with our Spellmaker family clients, I have received many prayer requests, and often they are for the pets of a client or one of their friends or family members. Lately, the numbers of requests has been increasing! So I am forming a prayer list just for this need. This year, I have been working more and more with Gran Bwa, so be sure he will be involved in the process, along with our dear, sweet Papa Legba. More information will be available soon, but requests for prayers can be submitted now to prayforpets@spellmaker.com
Peace and Love
Sister Bridget
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911 Readings Now Available!
New 911 readings are now available with me on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays! For full details please see http://www.spellmaker.com/bridget.htm
911 readings with Mambo Sam will be available shortly on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays!
Peace and Love,
Sister Bridget
