Tag: Voodoo Boutique

  • 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 

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  • 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

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  • ‘Memba This?

    Hi everyone!  So over two years ago I published this post below about The Pink Bubble Meditation. Every once in awhile someone asks me about it and I will re-direct them to where the old post is.  However, this week, no less than TEN PEOPLE have mentioned it to me!  LOL.  I truly took this as a sign from Les Lois that there were people out there in need of this meditation exercise so I am simply reposting my old post for probably a whole new audience who needs this pink magick!!

    Whomever is out there that needed this – God bless and here it is!

    Love,light, and peace,
    Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

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    Hello everyone!  Have you attempted meditation?  Meditation has been around for centuries and is used for many different manifestations of life:  health, love, anger management, relaxation, etc.  There are literally thousands of ways to meditate and assist in the manifestation of your goals. 

    In spell work we are often trying to attain a particular goal:  It may be love, money, a job, etc.  Whatever our reason for doing the spell work, adding in some creative meditations can certainly be a way of assisting your situation.

    Over the upcoming weeks, I would like to share with you some of my favorite meditation techniques. I hope you enjoy them!  The meditation technique below, the "Pink Bubble Meditation", is a wonderful meditation to use if you are working with our favorite love lwa, Erzulie Freda or working with pink candle magick or any other love magick.  🙂

    Love,light, and peace,
    Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

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    Pink Bubble Meditation Technique

    This meditation is simple and wonderfully effective.
    Exercise:

    • Sit or lie down comfortably, close your eyes and breathe deeply, slowly, and naturally. Gradually relax and feel this meditation taking you deeper and deeper.
    • Imagine something that you would like to manifest. Imagine that is already happened.
    • Picture it as clearly as possibly in your mind. Now in your mind’s eye surround your fantasy with a pink bubble; put your goal inside the bubble. Pink is the color associated with the heart, and if this color vibrations surrounds whatever you visualize, it bring to you only that which is in perfect affinity with your being.
    • The third step is to let go of your bubble and imagine it floating off into the universe, still containing your vision. This symbolizes that you are emotionally ‘letting go” of it.
    • Now it’s free to float around the universe, attracting and gathering energy for it’s manifestation.

    Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain 1978

  • The Happy Hive!

    Good morning everyone!  I woke up this morning smiling over the thought of what a happy hive we have here at www.spellmaker.com!  :-)  I just want to say some thank you's out there to all the folks that make things happen here.

    First off, Parran Matt!  Thank you so much for all that you do to keep the Spellmaker office running smoothly!  From making product to filling orders to just general every day stuff – you are the man and I love you for it and so much MORE! 🙂

    To our daughters:  Sister Bridget and Sister Candelaria I cannot say enough about the efforts of these two women to help out wherever possible, and do whatever we ask without question to help the spiritual paths of themselves and others.  They are truly gems.

    To our caseworkers:  God bless each and every one of  you!  Our confidential caseworker program is something very unique to Spellmaker.  Every client who desires to have someone on board to help them is welcome to choose or have assigned a confidential caseworker to them!  These very special folks are there to hold hands, make recommendations, offer solace, and in general take care of their clients. Each of them has a unique talent for what they do!

    Unfortunately, caseworkers are often met with a lot of negativity and blame as oftentimes sad and angry people lash out at them as the nearest post of whipping. Frankly, sometimes our caseworkers take a beating!  But each of them continues on, understanding that their clients are often hurt, afraid, and lonely and that is the reason for them taking the blame for things they had no control over.  Let's face it, very few people whose lives are going great need a caseworker!  The very need for a caseworker assumes that you are having some challenges in your life!

    It would behoove people to remember that caseworkers volunteered for their job and accept no pay for what they do.  It is part of their service to this House and Les Lois!  Thank you, thank you, thank you to those of you who continue to do casework and reach out and help others even in the face of their sometimes seeming ungratefulness!

    To tech support:  Thank you so much for all the questions you answer and your tireless good cheer in doing so!

    To Darla:  My grandson's mom,and my dear friend, Darla, has been helping us with the phone.  God bless her good cheer and constant great attitude towards clients!  Thank you so much, Darla!

    To Khouzhan Sierra:  Thank you for undertaking the reimplementing of the birthday certificate program!  It is a huge job and thank you so much for seeing it through!

    To the Novitiates:  Some of you are caseworkers, some of you are Prayer Group Leaders, technical support, writers, bloggers,  plus many more unseen workers! :-)  Those of you who have undertaken your service are doing a wonderful job!  Prayer Group Leaders, Caseworkers, tech support, and the Class Secretary – please accept my thanks for your continued service.  The others, please also accept my thanks for all that you are doing and will do in the future.  You are a great group of students and spiritual novitiates! I appreciate the efforts of all of you who are working towards your goals and ours!

    To whomever I forgot to mention:  I love you and appreciate you, but if I forgot to mention you, it is just that I haven't had my two cups of coffee yet!  LOL.

    It is great to be here in The Happy Hive with each and every one of you!

    If one of these wonderful people has helped you, please give them a shout out!

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

    Queenbee

  • Cookin’ up a spell!

    Hello everyone!

    Happy Monday!!!  :-)  So recently I had the pleasure of cooking dinner for some dear friends of ours.  It's "that" time of year so I was able to make spaghetti sauce from fresh pasta tomatoes grown in my mother-in-law Eileen's garden – use fresh herbs, peppers, etc. 

    In the midst of all that chopping, pureeing, stirring, etc., it struck me how much cooking was just like doing a spell (with a slight homage to Cajun Voodoo Love Cookin').   First of all, I had to want to cook this meal as perfectly as I could.  I couldn't just do it because I had to, or said I would.  It truly had to be a labor of love or that sauce would NOT come out right. (Hats off to my Dad for that one!)

    Second, I had to concentrate and think on what I wanted the outcome to be.  In order to make this meal truly special I had to visualize the joy that it would bring and the love that it would show.  I cooked this just for you, because I love you, and I want you to see that love in what I am offering you.  Nothing could be closer to being spell work without being spell work!

    Third, I had to take care with what I was doing; I had to check my ratios of tomatoes to garlic to peppers to onions. I had to make sure I stirred at the right time, checking to make sure nothing was burning, and get my timing right.

    In the end, the meal was as perfect as I could make it!  Notice I said as perfect as I could make it?  Not necessarily perfect, maybe something wasn't exactly right, maybe I might have made a mistake.  However, I knew that I had done my personal best – the end result was going to be loved because I knew that those good folks would know that something had been made especially for them and that THEY had been at the forefront of my thoughts the whole time I was preparing the meal.

    So approach your spell work the same way!  Care about what you are doing, follow the instructions to the best of your ability, and visualize the loving end result! Don't just go through the motions of your spell work because you have to, or the instructions said so, or Mambo said so!  Do it because you want to! You will feel happy and satisfied and you will know that no matter what the outcome, you did your very best!  That is success in a very special way!

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

    Foodheart

  • Friggatriskaidekaphobia – BOO!

    Happy Friday everyone!  And certainly Happy Friday the 13th!  :-)  Ah, the stuff from which movies are made.

    I actually remembering seeing the first of the Friday the 13th movies.  At that time, it was a pretty ground-breaking movie!  In my particular part of the country, New Orleans at that time, there was a very lively audience.  People were actually running screaming out of the theatre!  I don't think that happens too much anymore – too many things have happened to jade us about being afraid like that. However, at the time, a particular group of ladies of a certain age (who knows why the heck they were at that movie anyway) were sitting behind us in the theatre.  They were the first to go – knocking over other patrons seated near them and bounding down the theatre aisles, screaming, "Oh Lord, Oh God, get me out of here."  ;-)  No, I am not even kidding.

    Anyway, a few days ago I posted something about living in fear and how I don't want you to do that to yourself!  However, there is also the realization that we are all afraid of SOMETHING!  Me, not too fond of heights or close places.  I am not sure if I am afraid of clowns or just don't like them, but they do absolutely creep me out.  I love the Cirque du Soleil shows that Matt and I have seen in Las Vegas, and it seems that sophisticated clowns do not creep me out.  LOL. 

    Then, of course, there are more soul-trembling fears, those things that go beyond just creepy-crawly fears; there is the fear that the world will never come to peace again, fear that children will always be starving, fear that some people will never "get it", fear that someone will always be mistreating a pet, fear of America's disrespect for their elderly, fear that our educational system will never improve, and so forth and so on.

    What do you fear?  Do you think your fears are irrational, but you have them just the same?  Or do you think that your fears are pretty well grounded?  Do you know the root of your fear or is it something that just seemed to "pop up?"  (That's me with my "fear" of clowns, I swear I don't know why!)

    Enjoy your Friday the 13th! 

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

  • For Lazaro.

    Ridiculously, some might say,

    I cried all the way home after I

    met you.

    But those who would say such

    a thing would never understand

    your sublime

    perfection,

    your precious spirit.

    Surely they would never see as

    I see into your past and present

    and future all

    at once.

    Surely they have never held you

    and smelled you and kissed at

    the air because

    you had breathed

    into it.

    So I shall remain ridiculously,

    crazily, and maybe inexplicably,

    a completely smitten

    fan of your

    incredible beingness.

    Thank you for coming to

    Planet Earth.

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    Love you!!!

  • Stress in Social Media?

    Hello everyone,

    I read a very intriguing article today that stated that doctors were starting to see stress symptoms caused by people trying to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, etc.  These people felt compelled to keep their statuses updated, pictures uploaded, etc., etc.  When they fell behind, they felt like failures.

    In looking back over my fairly short history with social media (just a couple of years at most), I did see where there were times when I felt like needed to add "something" to Facebook or Twitter – otherwise it seemed like I was just sitting stagnant somewhere.  There is, to me, sometimes a huge obligatory feel to catching up on Facebook.

    But doesn't this kind of go against the whole idea of social media?  Weren't we supposed to be on Facebook to have fun, catch up with one another, find old friends, reach out to those we love and care about?  Was it ever supposed to be a chore?

    I had read quite some time ago about some people thinking that the verb "friending" someone on Facebook demeaned the whole idea of a friend…. that it took away from the very word "friend."

    Obviously, as an online business owner, I do feel that I should be on Facebook, not just for family and friends, but because I believe that it offers potential customers of Spellmaker another way to get to know me.  Most of you who do know me, already know that I am big on having customers get to know us. I feel it is important for them to know who they will be not only giving their money to, but who are they entrusting with fragile things such as their love life!  I have always been a big believer in telling pretty much all my personal business to my customers.  LOL.  That has been sometimes a bone of contention with certain family members, but I figure if you are entrusting me with your personal information, turnabout is fair play.

    However, on a personal level, how do you feel about social media such as Facebook?  Do you ever feel stressed about it?  Do you feel that it is something you MUST keep up with or do you just want to keep up with it?

    One of my  Spellmaker Novitiates recently mentioned in one of her posts about evil Facebook and stalking people on there!  LOL – that is worthy of a whole 'nuther post, but first I would like to get your opinion on social media in general! 

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

    1spiritualpower

  • Know Thyself.

    Knowthyself

    How DO you see yourself? 

    Hello everyone?  Besides the unbearable cuteness of the above picture, it does get one to thinking… how do I see myself?  And what is more important to you, how others see you, or how you see yourself? In a world where some struggle to be beautiful, popular, brave, or even just noticed, what brings the most satisfaction; being happy with what you see in the mirror or what others see?

    I don't know if there is an easy answer, but would love to hear from you all about image, not just your physical image, but what do you see when you look in your spiritual mirror?

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

  • The State of Fear.

    Last week I had the opportunity to speak with an old friend that I had lost touch with. A rather unfortunate memory of this person is that she was always afraid of something!  While I enjoyed catching up with her, I was also sad to find that she was still that fearful person – she was working the same job that she absolutely hates for fear of going to find another one ("not in THIS economy"); she still had very little outside interests ("the world is full of crazy people") and she was still alone ("there are no good men left").

    While Ellie knows what I do for a living, she is not a person prone to do things like spell work or candle work! I wish she was… I would definitely recommend that she try something like some white candle magick or a Milk of Damballah white bath to try to help her remove some of the fear and negativity that she finds herself steeped in!

    So we will call my friend Ellie.  Ellie lives the State of Fear. Everything is riddled with negativity and fear and I began to remember why I had "lost touch."  While Ellie is an extreme case, how many of you out there are living in the State of Fear?  Are you afraid to make new friends, talk to people, put yourself out there, take a chance on… well… anything?

    You know that old saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained?"  It is just as viable today as it ever was.  Even in these tough economic times, even while we are bombarded with news of atrocities throughout the world, there is still goodness, love, and fun to be had out there.  Notice I said OUT THERE.  It isn't coming to your doorstep.  You must go out there and live your life.  If you are afraid of every little thing – the dark, people, new friends,conversations,etc., you are doing yourself a terrible disservice.

    I am not saying it is easy to overcome these fears, but won't you please try?  If you see any of yourself in those paragraphs above, try to master your fears of just one thing!  Are you afraid of people?  Are you sure that all of them are up to no good?  Try just talking to one new person a month – maybe they will be a rat bastard, but maybe they will be a new lifelong friend! Are you afraid of new ventures? Go some place new!  Force yourself if you have to.  I am sure you will find that there wasn't anything scary about it at all. 🙂 You might even enjoy yourself!

    It's a big wide world out there people – if you are just existing in your tiny corner of it, never venturing out of your safe zone, not only are you doing yourself a disservice, you are doing the world a disservice – the rest of us out here might enjoy the pleasure of your company!  🙂

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

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