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  • Love Potion #9 Will Be Available!

    Wheee!!!  Okay, there was a really good response from those of you who would like me to go ahead and make the Love Potion #9 on 09/09/09.  :-) 

    Now, of course, as most of you know, generally we simply offer the recipe on our website and everyone makes their own batch of potion as desired. However, we just couldn't resist the idea of making this on 09/09/09 – I mean, we won't get another chance at this in our lifetimes, so that made it pretty irresistible! 🙂

    After thinking about it for awhile, what I have decided to do is pressure can it. I can a lot of vegetables, soups, salsa, etc., and so I have a pressure canner and so will end up sealing this potion in 8 ounce jars. This is going to help us all out a lot because it will preserve it much longer than the usual recommended one year to keep this potion!

    Realistically speaking, I feel that I can only successfully make about 40 jars for it to be effective. I need to make the potion itself within that 9:00 a.m. hour – so however much I can make in an hour will be what we will have. I am sort of guessing at the 40 jars, but I feel confident I can make that much for sure. The canning process itself will obviously take longer, but the batches would already be made and just needing to be canned.

    I have pasted in below the information that I just put up on the website about the potion, buying the potion, etc. Of course, as with everything we sell, we will include an instruction sheet with the jars of potion.

    Naturally, you can still make this potion yourself, as usual! The information about the potion itself, the recipe, and the way to buy the potion is located at www.spellmaker.com/potion9.htm.

    Here is the information from the website:

    Information concerning purchasing our special batch of 09/09/09 Love Potion #9:

    (Please read carefully so that you understand what you are getting!)

  • Mambo Sam will make a big batch of this potion on 09/09/09. Normally, we do not make and/or sell this potion – we recommend that everyone make their own.
  • However, since we won't get another chance in our life time to do this again on this amazing date, we have decided to make a batch this year and offer it to those who want it.
  • Please be aware that normally we would never sell anything that is edible or meant to be taken internally in any way, this will be an exception to that rule! Because we are not licensed to sell anything that anyone would eat or drink, by your purchase of this item you are accepting that this was made in a home kitchen, under extremely clean and as sterile as possible, circumstances.
  • To further insure the viability and storage of the potion, Mambo Sam will can the potion with a pressure canner. This will preserve it for maximum freshness and the potion will more than likely last much longer than one year. Your potion will come in a heat sealed, 8 ounce glass jar. Until you break the seal, the potion will keep for quite some time!
  • You will have the option to have her consecrate your particular bottle of potion just in your name (so you decide later upon whom you want to use it) OR in the name of you and someone specific OR have it consecrated for someone else entirely (for instance, if you wanted to give it to someone as a gift).
  • Since these will be pressure sealed, you will have the option to buy more than one jar in order to keep it longer safely.
  • We are asking that you order this product separately, apart from other products, and then email us at customerservice@spellmaker.com and tell us how you want your jar(s) consecrated once you have paid for it.

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

  • Love Potion Number 9 – 09/09/09

    Hello everyone,

    Happy Monday! While I am still working on the comparative religion project (and thank you all for your suggestions), I did want to mention that the time to make your Love Potion #9 is fast upon us!


    This year will be a particularly wonderful year for making this potion because it will be made on 09/09/09 this year! 🙂 Of course that gives us the triple threat, right? 😉


    For some reason, there always seem to be some confusion on when the “ninth hour” of the day is – even though I have it printed on the instructions that the ninth hour of ANY day is 9:00 a.m., not 9:00 p.m. – so the potion is supposed to be made at 9:00 a.m.


    Because this is such a special year for making the potion, if there is enough interest, we will make a big batch here at Spellmaker and make it available for purchase, if folks wnat it. Obviously, 09/09/09 isn’t going to be around again, so we are in a position to make a very strong batch of this potion! Usually we do not make here for sale at the Spellmaker office, but because of the special date, we will make it this time if people are interested.


    If there is enough interest and we do make the batch, we will make a big batch and then consecrate the bottles individually for those who want to purchase it. We would probably make it available in about an 8 ounce container – so that would be more than enough for personal usage.


    So, if you think you might interested in purchasing a container from us and/or you cannot make your own for any reason, please email us at customerservice@spellmaker.com and let us know. If there is enough interest, we will definitely do it!


    In the meantime, check out the Spellmaker Forum for the recipe or click the link above for the recipe for making your own Love Potion #9!


    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

  • Working on the comparative religion project!

    Hello my good readers!  Thank you all for the great suggestions for different religious aspects you would like explore in blending your magickal and/or Vodou practives with your other religious practices.  You have all given me some great ideas and asked some really wonderful questions.  I will start putting this project together and start posting it next week sometime.


    In the meantime, I also wanted to mention that many of you are still doing the 9-day meditation practice that was previously posted. Please do continue to do it and feel free to post your comments even though many people already did the exercises.  Those exercises were truly meant for you to keep and do any time that you feel like you need them. 


    As you move along in doing those exercises, and do them more often, you will start to become more familiar with them, make them your own, and break them down into pieces.   I will be blogging more about those exercises as well so that we can refine their usage for you.  There are many uses for them to help you reach specific goals and manage different needs.  So, that was definitely not a one-time usage item!  🙂


    I hope you are all having a great weekend.


    Love,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

  • What do you see?

    Hello everyone!
    So many times when I am speaking with clients on the phone they are looking for a sign of something. They are looking for a sign that their spell work is working, they are looking for a sign that they are being heard. Some people are wondering if something is a sign or did they miss it. Often I think that some people just miss the signs that are presented to them because they are too busy to see them or they just don't know what they are looking for. 🙂 Some signs are not so easy to see. So I thought we could start a little game where we try hard to see things, things that are not quite so apparent. I feel this will help in figuring out how to see the signs that are presented to you. Oh and I think it will be fun, too!
    Love,
    Parran Matt
    www.spellmaker.com

    Do you see a landscape of faces? How many do you see?

    Opticalillusions7

  • Compatibility of Religions and Magick.

    Dear Friends,
    Over the years, so many clients have come to me with a concern that their magickal practices, especially things like our love spell kits, potions, etc., might interfere with their own personal religious practices.

    Many of us grew up in religions that were based on guilt and have been taught that doing any kind of magickal practices are wrong. Of course, now, most of us don't believe that we are doing anything wrong! However, there is still a question of how to blend these beliefs successfully or if they can even be blended successfully.

    Therefore, I am going to be starting a series of posts on comparative religions and how different religions can be used to enhance or parallel your magickal practices.

    If you have a particular religion you would like to see featured here, please leave a note below in the comments section. Remember, the comments section is confidential – you choose not to have your name or email address show up at all or use a nickname. So if you have a particular religion that you would like to see how to blend your practices, please let me know.

    Also, I would love to hear your own personal ways that you have come up with to blend your magickal and/or Voodoo practices with your own religion!

    Love to all,
    Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

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  • Smile it’s Monday!

    Back to work!  Hope you all had a good weekend.  Needless to say we get a ton of email here at Spellmaker.Sometimes it is hard to keep up with it all. Both Mambo and I have a tendency to hit the computer first thing in the morning to start seeing who needs what!

    Since it is Monday I thought you might need a laugh. This is a list Ifound by Michael Boyd:

    How to tell if you're an e-mail junkie

    How to tell if you're an e-mail junkie

    Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 09:57:28 +0600

    You know you are an Email/Internet Junkie If :

    1. You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

    2. You get a tattoo that reads "This body best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher."

    3. You name your children Eudora, Mozillia and Dotcom.

    4. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

    5. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap…and your child in the overhead compartment.

    6. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two just for the free Internet access.

    7. You laugh at people with 9600-baud modems.

    8. You start using smileys in your snail mail.

    9. Your hard drive crashes. You haven't logged in for two hours. You start to twitch. You pick up the phone and manually dial your ISP's access number. You try to hum to communicate with the modem…And you succeed.

    10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.com

    11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

    12. You start introducing yourself as "John Doe at AOL dot com."

    13. All of your friends have an @ in their names.

    14. Your PET has its own home page.

    15. You can't call your mother…she doesn't have a modem.

    16. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you checkit again.

    17. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.

    18. You don't know what sex three of your closest friends are, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.

    19. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you landscape.

    20. You tell the cab driver you live at "http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html"

    21. You start tilting your head sideways to smile

    Love, Parran Matt

    www.spellmaker.com

  • More on Meditation and Focus!

    Happy Monday, everyone!  Now for those of you who just did the nine day Meditation and Focus exercises, you  had focal points to help with your concentration.  Most of us here are doing, have done, or will be doing spell work.  Concentration and Focus are key to good and effective spell work!  :-)  So, the exercises I gave you over the several days helped with the spiritual end of focusing.  I found a great article by Tevjan Pettinger regarding the more physical portion of focus.  It is important to remember that whether your goal is successful spell work, spiritual growth, or something such as getting a new job, a successful balance between the spiritual and physical is the most likely path to fulfillment. 

    Mr. Pettinger makes some excellent points.  Do you have tricks or tips that help you with your concentration and focus?  If so, we would love to hear them.  Leave a comment below!

    Love, Mambo Sam
    www.spellmaker.com

     THE ARTICLE:
    In concentration we marshal all our dispersed energies into focusing on just one thing. When mastered, concentration can be of unimaginable benefit in our life; through concentration we can increase our productivity and give ourselves greater peace of mind. These are some suggestions for improving your concentration.

    One-Pointedness

    Concentration means that we can focus on one thing, to the exclusion of all else. Our concentration may involve writing or working on a particular problem. Whatever our activity the most important criteria is to give all our focus, concentration and attention solely to the activity at hand. Concentration becomes hopeless when we get distracted by several different things at the same time; to improve our concentration we must stop trying to do several things at once. If you are writing an article, don’t be thinking about what to say to your boss later in the day. If we can develop one-pointedness we will develop a tremendous intensity that enables us to achieve our tasks much quicker.

    Learn to Control Your Thoughts

    The main stumbling block to concentration is the inevitable distraction we get from our own thoughts. It is random, uninvited thoughts that distract us from achieving pure concentration. The only solution is learning to control and quieten our thoughts. The first thing to be aware of is that we do have the choice to welcome or reject thoughts; we should not feel a helpless victim of our own mind. The second thing is we need to consciously watch our thoughts and prevent ourselves following any train of thought that detracts from our concentration. If we casually begin a project, it is easy to begin daydreaming and lose focus; what we need to do is be very determined to concentrate without distracting thoughts. When we have this intention and determination it becomes much easier to concentrate.

    Practice

    Concentration is an activity like any other. Clearly the more we practice, the better our concentration will become. We wouldn’t expect to be a strong runner without doing some training. Similarly, concentration is like a muscle, the more we exercise the stronger it becomes. There are specific concentration exercises we can do, such as focusing on a small point of an object; but life itself presents innumerable opportunities to sharpen your concentration. The key is to always take opportunities to heighten our powers of concentration.

    Meditation

    The practice of meditation will definitely improve our powers of concentration. Actually, when we try to meditate, it is concentration that is the first thing we need to master. A daily period of meditation gives us the chance to specifically work on concentration techniques. This can involve concentrating on a candle or just concentrating on our breathing. These exercises are simple but effective.

    Change is as Good as a Rest

    It is difficult to concentrate on one thing for an extended time period. Sometimes, the best solution is to give ourselves frequent change. If we concentrate on one task for an hour, we can then move onto something different. This change in activity enables us to use different qualities, therefore, we can maintain our powers of concentration without becoming tired of one activity.

    Physical Alertness

    The powers of our concentration depends a lot upon our physical well-being. If we are tired, unhealthy and afflicted by numerous minor ailments, concentration will be more difficult. Of course, concentration is still possible; it is just more difficult. However, we have to try to make life easy for ourselves; we need to give a high priority to our physical health – getting sufficient sleep, staying physically fit. Undertaking exercise will help develop our concentration. It will help if we lose weight, clear the mind and create a sense of dynamism. If you struggle to concentrate, we need to think of a holistic solution; good physical health and fitness will definitely help develop our powers of concentration.

  • Meditation and Focus Exercise Wrap Up!

    Hello everyone! It was so heartening to see that so many of you participated in this.  Truly, what this has been all about is manifesting your destiny!  I encourage you to keep track of where these exercises are. This time, we used them in a very general, self-awareness way.  However, they can also be pin-pointed to use to solve problems, meet challenges, manifest things into your life.

    Now you can go back and read your writings.  Highlight those things that jump out at you. What did you discover about yourself, others, your relationship to people, places, and things?  This time we did this exercise to help with self-awareness and to help you get used to this form of work.  You will only do a few things differently to use this to help manifest things in your life. 

    Best of all, you can use these exercises right along with any Spellmaker spell work or adjunct work that you are doing! For instance, if you were doing a nine day spell kit, you could do each day along with your spell kit – configuring the subject of your thoughts to the goal you are working on. If you were working on love spell work, you would start out reconfiguring your question slightly, such as, "Who am I in relation to Fred?" Then you would follow along the same pattern of reconfiguring your meditation questions to parallel your spell work.

    You could do the same with candle work or any other of our magickal work – you can just slightly reconfigure your questions to work towards your goal. However, you do still want to stick with the basic questions and the basic pattern of questions – just reconfigure them to make sense with what you are doing.

    After you have worked with this exercise for awhile, you will find that you turn to it more and more to solve problems, etc. You can use alongside any project, magickal or otherwise.

    I also wanted to mention that the guidance to present these exercises, find the appropriate pictures, etc., came to me in a meditation and just rushed forward so fast that I almost could not write down the original 9 questions you should ask for the meditation itself!  It was wonderfully overwhelming!

    I hope you enjoyed it! I would love to hear all of your comments and thoughts on this.

    Love to all,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com

  • Defiance.

    Hi everyone! Mambo and I watched a movie the other night titled, “Defiance.”  Have you seen this movie?  It is a powerful film about the human spirit, survival, and love.  It is also a true story.  If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it.


    One thing among many that really struck me was the love story component to this story.  I don’t really want to give the story away, but love grew in probably the most adverse conditions that one could experience.  It would seem that love, romantic love, would have been the last thing on peoples’ minds in these conditions.  But it existed.  Not only did the love exist, it grew, thrived, and lasted for many years between some of the couples.


    It got me to thinking – are some people lazy about love?  If everything isn’t perfect, the perfect man or woman, the perfect restaurant date, the perfect flowers and gifts, then does it mean the love is lessened?  I think a good question to ask is can you love under adverse conditions?  What happens when the “perfect” man or woman becomes less than perfect due to some terrible circumstance?  Do you walk away, or do you still see the perfection under the circumstance?


    So much emphasis is put on what someone you love has to be – what he or she has to do, give, become – that I cannot help but wonder if some people are just soft and lazy where love is concerned. To watch this movie and see these people falling in love under horrific circumstances was just mind blowing. On the other hand, I suppose that under horrific circumstances would be a great place to bond, share the fear and horror with someone.


    Anyway, if you want to see what I am talking about, watch the film!


    Love, Parran Matt

    www.spellmaker.com

  • Meditation and Focus Exercise Day 9: How do I manifest….

    Hello, welcome to Day Nine of our exercise.  This day we have a few choices in our meditation question.  In speaking of "love" we have some choices:  How do I manifest/keep/improve love in my life?  So depending on what is happening in your life, this question may be framed differently.

    Instructions:  Take a few deep breaths and relax yourself. Stare at the picture below with the thought in mind:  "How do I…….?"   Spend about 3-5 minutes staring at the picture and asking yourself the same question, "Who do I love?" After about 3-5 minutes, write down some of your impressions.  When you are done writing, stare at the picture again and ask yourself the same question, "How do I….?" After about 3-5 minutes, write down your impressions. Repeat the process one more time.  After your final writing down of your impressions (you should have written something down three separate times), close your notebook and do not go back and read your impressions. Get up and get away from your computer for a few minutes, drink some water, or take a short walk.  Come back tomorrow for a wrap up of this exercise! 🙂

    Love,
    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com

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