Hey All-
I am so happy to be able to finally spread the news that my dear Sister Candelaria, Priestess of Agwe, is now officially offering Cowrie Shell readings and Oceanside Rituals. I KNOW that you will find BOTH the readings and the rituals very informative and helpful to your situations.
To read about both, please see
Dear Friends,
We are very excited to offer to all of you an extremely unique service. Our very own Sister Candelaria is now offering Oceanside Rituals to Agwe and LaSiren as well as cowrie shell readings!
Sister Candelaria is, of course, a New Orleans Voodoo initiate, child of myself and Parran Matt. She is a priestess of Agwe and therefore is able to do work with him and his beautiful wife, LaSirene, on your behalf.
If you are not familiar with cowrie shell readings, I think you are going to really love them! Cowrie shell readings are an extremely unique type of reading during which the priestess ritualistically throws the shells and asks questions on your behalf of the powerful lwa couple, Agwe and LaSiren. It is important for you to know that, generally speaking, cowrie shell readings are not considered psychic nor even prophetic types of readings. Cowrie shell readings are meant to give you direct guidance from the lwa through their priestess. These readings are generally done in the spirit of you wanting to know what to do next about a specific situation in your life, which path to take in a certain situation, etc. Cowrie shell readings traditionally are meant to clear up confusion, ask direct questions about a situation, etc. Cowrie shell readings are a spiritual experience between you, the priestess, and the lwa. Often times the priestess will be compelled to tell you things that do not even have to do with the subject at hand. The priestess is bound by oath to tell you whatever the lwa want you to hear.
Equally exciting are the Oceanside Rituals that Sister Candelaria is now offering. These sanctified rituals begin at Sister Candelaria’s altar and end with her actually going to the ocean on your behalf where she will make your offerings and petitions to LaSirene and Agwe! She will then send you pictures, a ritual item, and a full report on your ritual. This is not the type of ritual that you can get just anywhere and especially not in the detail that she will provide to you with the pictures and guidance.
Each ritual is customized to your requests to meet your goals. While the rituals do not replace regular spell work, they certainly are an extraordinary form of adjunct work! For instance, for love work, she will be calling upon the power of the love between Agwe and LaSiren to help your case. For money work, she will be calling on them to share their riches. For the Spiritual Power ritual, she will be calling on them to help you open up your spiritual centers, intuition, psychic centers and pathways, etc. You will discuss your needs with Sister Candelaria prior to the ritual. When your ritual is performed, she will send you a digital picture of your ritual set up as well as mailing you some of the materials used in the ritual with instructions for what you are to do with them.
Please visit Sister Candelaria’s Page at www.spellmaker.com/candelaria.htm. If you have questions, please email Sister directly at candelaria@spellmaker.com
Now some of you were lucky enough to have a reading with Sister Candelaria at the convention and/or have already had your Oceanside Ritual because you were at the convention and ordered there! We would love to hear your feedback! Just comment at the comment link below!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Samantha Corfield
Hello everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that over the next two weeks we will be making some changes and upgrading our online chat software. This will make chat unavailable for a few days off and on over the next two weeks.
Please remember that the online chat is not the only way to contact us and certainly is not the only way to get technical support, put in an order, or talk to your caseworker. Many people have been using the chat this way, but we actually have many other options for that which have been outlined to you in your order confirmation and are included with your products. 😉
So please, at least during this upcoming time period, please:
We look forward to introducing the new, upgraded chat software ASAP. 🙂
Love,
Mambo Samantha Corfield
Hello to all out there! Before I get into today’s post I want to apologize for taking so long to get into the idea of blogging. I am not a person who usually writes what I want to say. I usually prefer to talk to someone face-to-face and it is taking me some time to get used to the idea of mass messages, text messages, and all of the other media we use to communicate with each other now.
But I have to say that I am starting to enjoy the idea of social and business communication on the computer and so I promise to make time to blog!
So what would you like to hear from me? Are there subjects that you would like to hear my perspective on from my position in our New Orleans Voodoo family? I have some ideas, but certainly would like to hear from all of you on an ideas you have for me.
Looking forward to communicating with you all!
Best to all,
Parran Matt
here is one more quote I couldn't resist passing along……..
Happy Saturday, everyone!
Do you know about Rescue Remedy(tm)? This is a flower essence herbal remedy by the Bach company that helps calm, soothe, and generally relax you. It has been around for many years, and there is even a pet version that we often give to Mojo, our dog, because he is a little hyper!
I mention it here because I know that so many people are stressed these days. You may be working on a difficult case with your love spell work, finances might be tight, jobs in question, etc. All of these stressors can often send us straight to the doctor where we walk away with a fist full of prescriptions to get us through the day. Anxiety and depression are at an all time high right now in America.
Of course, I am not saying that a little flower essence is all you need, but if you are stressed out, depressed, etc., you might want to consider getting a bottle of Rescue Remedy and trying it out. It has the nicest calming effect. If you are calm and relaxed, certainly your love spell work has a better chance of working out for you. If you are depressed, anxious, and crying all the time, that is the kind of energy you are putting into your spell work.
I copied this from the Rescue Remedy website:
“If you feel like you’ve “had enough”, follow these simple tips to restore focus and regain inner calm wherever you are:
It is good advice!
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in trying to achieve our spell work goals that we forget to take care of US, take care of how we feel, take care of how we are reacting to our lives. Our reaction to the events in our lives can actually change the next set of events. If you continue to feel like you have nothing but bad things happening to you, and you don’t feel like you see a way out, then you probably will not be presented with a solution. However, if you can put things in perspective and tell yourself that you KNOW there is a solution to the problem, you just need to find it, then you are setting yourself up to be open to potentials and prospects!
I really wanted to let you all know about this little bit of “peace in a bottle” called Rescue Remedy. I have recommended it to some of you personally but wanted to get it out there in a bigger way. Some of you have let me know that you used it, for instance, before a Milk of Damballah(tm) white bath and felt that it helped you get a better result from it!
Another person I recommended it to told me that she used it before every love spell work session. She reported that she felt better, didn’t feel like crying through the spell work, and overall felt that she had made a better environment for her spell work!
One client told me that she even used it when doing her deluxe love doll. She took a few drops herself and then put a drop on the doll and petitioned that her HD would be calm and collected and thinking straight the next time she saw him (he has an anxiety disorder). She swears that it worked!!! I don’t have personal experience with that aspect of using it, but I can’t see that she had any reason to lie!
Have any of you out there used Rescue Remedy? Did you use it in conjunction with your spell work or adjunct work?? We would love to hear from you about it!
Love,
Mambo Sam
Hello everyone!
There seems to be a trend that I have noticed lately. This trend is not just among clients, but among other people that I see and deal with on a day-to-day basis. I don’t know if this trend is due to the economy, winter blues, or what, but there seems to be a certain faction of people who are just determined to have a negative attitude no matter what!
Caseworkers have drawn my attention to this with some of their clients, but I had actually noticed it already. For some people, no matter how much we counsel them, they are determined to turn what we say into a something negative. For instance, if I tell a client in a reading that I don’t see the HD calling them tomorrow, they will turn around and say, “I bet he will never call me.” Or if the HD doesn’t want to see them right now because the spells are being processed: “Oh he never wants to see me and I don’t think he will ever come and see me again.”
It is frustrating to try to counsel and help a person who can only see a negative outcome. Plus, somehow, they cannot seem to understand how only seeing a negative outcome will breed, of course, a negative outcome. If you constantly are talking about, expecting, and assuming that you will have a negative outcome, how can you have anything but that? You are not just shooting yourself in the foot, you just shot your foot OFF!
Look, I know it is hard to remain positive sometimes. We all have negative moments, sad thoughts, fears that things won’t work out. However, when you allow all of that to become a lifestyle or an expectation, you are doing yourself a huge disservice. If you have spent time and money and effort on spell work, you are doing yourself an even bigger disservice. I had a client tell me one time that she didn’t want to think of the possibility of a good outcome from her spell work becaues she didn’t want to “get my hopes up and then be disappointed.” Okay, I get that. But, what kind of energy did she put out there: “Well, this probably won’t work, but I will try it anyway.”
Is that how you are approaching your spell work? If so, I totally agree that you will probably get a negative result. That is a shame! So many of you have become steeped in such negativity and assurance that you will fail that we are left to sit an watch you plunge head long right into disasister. It is painful to watch.
I really want to encourage you to try to find a way to look towards things (at least a little bit of the time) in a positive manner. If you truly cannot find anything positive in your life or you are so depressed that you do not see a chance for any happiness in your life, then I encourage you to seek professional help. Here at Spellmaker, all we want is the best for you. We want you to succeed. We want you to have the fairy tale ending. Don’t fight it! Let it happen!!!
You know, being negative is easy. We are almost bred to it! When you go into a bookstore, you don’t see rows and rows of books on how to be negative. What you do see are rows and rows of books about positive thinking, having a winning attitude, etc. As humans we seem to need that kind of help and positive reinforcement!
I know it isn’t easy to pull yourself out of a negative state of being, but trying is half the battle! Do some of you have tips for what you do when you feel negativity creeping into your life? We would love to hear them here!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Sam
Greetings everyone!
It is just a little over a week (I can't believe how time flies!) to go until we start our annual Valentine's Ritual to Erzulie Freda here in the Spellmaker office! If you haven't gotten your ritual request in, please hurry up and do so. Just see the page at www.spellmaker.com/erzulie.htm for instructions on how to submit your letter. It's free, it's fun, it's fabulous!
For some, this time of year is terribly dreaded. All those happy couples, Valentine's decorations, hearts and flowers just about everywhere can sometimes serve to make those who are facing this holiday alone just feel terrible. That is one of the reasons why we do the Erzulie ritual directly on Valentine's day. So if you don't have a date, you sure do have a date with us!
Sure, we know it is easy to say it is a cheesy holiday just giving the greeting card companies another way to sell us another $5.00 card. It's easy to say you don't believe in it or wouldn't celebrate it anyway if you were with someone. But for most of us, if we are alone, we still feel pangs of pain in our hearts despite what our lips might say.
If you feel like the idea of another Valentine's Day makes you want to run and hide, make a plan to spend the day thinking about your own ritual to Erzulie, shopping for what you need, setting everything up, etc. Make the day special to yourself in preparation for the day when someone else will make it special for you.
Please remember that we are here for you! If you are feeling lonely, tired of being alone, or just plain stressed out over a Valentine's Day spent alone, please write to your caseworker. Tell your caseworker how you are feeling and spend some time discussing how you will spend the day and how you will make it special for yourself.
So besides doing the Erzulie Valentine's Ritual with us (because I KNOW you are!), what other tips do you have for people spending this day alone? What else can you do to make this day special for yourself?
I look forward to hearing from you all!
Love to all,
Mambo Sam
Hello everyone!
Any Facebook fans out there?? 🙂 I admit to having been somewhat bewildered at the popularity of Facebook when I first heard of it. However, after some time of exploring it and seeing so many friends, family, and client on there I decided to take a stab at it!
It is fun and quirky and interesting to me. It is great to connect with everyone and see what is happening in their lives.
I even made my first “app” for all of us to use to send lwa to each other! I even blessed the app, which may sound silly, but I chose all the pictures very carefully and sent my best possible blessings into each one in hopes that we could all help each other by sending different lwa to each other. 🙂
We now even have a Spellmaker page on Facebook where you can become a fan of Spellmaker! It’s fun and it is a great way for all of us to stay in touch.
So if you have been avoiding the whole Facebook scene, come see us, join us, and have some fun with us!
Love,
Mambo Sam
Okay, okay… I confess, I have never seen the show “Gossip Girl” but I love the name of it! Or maybe I hate the name of it. I am not sure! LOL.
On a more serious note, I have talked about this before on our forum (which is soon to be resurrected, by the way!), and even in person at conferences and lave tets: There is an unfortunate side effect to having friends that you made through Spellmaker – either you met them online or in person, doesn’t matter. What ends up happening is that you talk too much about your spell casting work!
But, Mambo, you ask me, what’s wrong with that? Well, plenty. You know how in the spell casting instructions it pretty clearly states that you should tell no one of your spell work? There is a good reason for that. Unfortunately, talking about it too much, even to those you think support you, can often have an adverse effect.
The first thing is that discussing it too much makes you tend to dissect it: What did you do, Susie Spellmaker Friend? Oh, I didn’t do that, I did this. Maybe I should have done what you did, SSF. Or maybe you should have done what I did, SSF. Oh, SSF, my HD called me. SSF says: Oh big deal, that doesn’t mean anything. You say: But I thought it was a good sign. SSF says: You put too much into it. Don’t let him take advantage of you, calling whenever he wants. You say: Is this spell work really working? SSF says: Maybe. Maybe not.
My point is that very often SSF actually is jealous of your progress, or doesn’t interpret the spell work the way you do, or just plain old isn’t actually a “friend.” We have such a loose interpretation of what a friend is these days. Someone we meet on the internet and have a little something in common with is suddenly the definition of “friendship.”
I find this especially true, unfortunately, of my female clients. They want to compare spellcasting notes with their SSF’s, pour over what is happening to them, lament the state of their case, cry on each other’s shoulders, etc., etc., etc. Frankly, I think it is detrimental to your spell work. I have tried to tell some people this and am met with a fairly chilly reception and THEN am told I am wrong. Well, guess what, I can’t be wrong because I crafted your spellwork. I created the very place where you met SSF.
Look, I am not trying to say you shouldn’t talk to your personal SSF, but what I am saying is that you should try to keep the talk down that dissects your personal spell work and its results. You are truly doing yourself a disservice in that you might be wrecking your own work by putting doubt into it or worrying about the fact that SSF got some kind of result that YOU were hoping for and you are still waiting. Or SSF seems to be in one disaster after another and is dragging you in with her. Yes, keep your SSF! But think about the discussions you are having – are they truly helping you? Are those discussions truly supportive? Do you come away from talking to SSF feeling BETTER or WORSE?
The main thing that prompted me to write this post is that I have received some pretty emotional letters from some of you regarding your SSF and a relationship with her that has gone terribly wrong or is counterproductive. One thing I do recommend is that if you have an SSF and you feel like the relationship isn’t doing either one of you any good, you should talk to her! Tell her how you feel. If she is truly your friend, then she will work with you to salvage the relationship and keep it healthy. If she is not your friend, you will know it right away and should just cut your losses.
Sorry for shooting straight from the hip on this one, but I just thought you should all think about it!
Love, light, and peace,
Mambo Sam