Tag: spells

  • Memorial Day Plans

    Hello dear readers!

    As Parran Matt and I were doing some errands today, we could not help but notice the amount of campers and cars packed up leaving for the long holiday weekend!  If you aren't traveling, Memorial Day… or any time this weekend is a great time to do a ritual for your ancestors, General Ogoun, or even Baron Samedi! 

    As we honor our fallen heroes, honoring our ancestors, even if they weren't military, is a great way to spend some time this Memorial Day weekend.  Of course, doing some ritual for General Ogoun Feraille or Baron Samedi is also a great way to honor our fallen military personnel! 

    When you do these kinds of services, it isn't the kind of service where you ask for something – it shouldn't be goal-oriented other than your goal being simply to say that you want to honor those who have fallen in the service of their country – even if it isn't the USA.  A lot of our dear Spellmaker clients are not in the USA!  But more than likely you have a military who has fought to keep your country safe, too!  So our Memorial Day can be everyone's Memorial Day as far as I am concerned.

    Light a candle and ask General Ogoun or Baron Samedi to send a blessing to these fallen ones.  Just say that you want to honor them and send your good energy to those who made the ultimate sacrifice and helped make our freedoms possible. 

    It just takes a few minutes to do a small service and send out your good vibes and ask for protection for those still serving in our military!

    Love to all,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield
    www.spellmaker.com

    Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language?  Are they dead that yet act?  Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?  ~Henry Ward Beecher

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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
    www.spellmaker.com

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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

    www.spellmaker.com

  • 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

    www.spellmaker.com

     

  • Hand Mixed Vodou Baths!

    Hi there!

    On my last trip out to visit MaParents this Fall, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Parran Matt in the Spellmaker workshop and assist a bit with making products. Here are a few pictures of Parran Matt hand mixing some of our Vodou Baths…..

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    Thanks, Parran, for all that you do!

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

  • Happy Thanksgiving 🙂

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    For each new morning with its light,
    For rest and shelter of the night,
    For health and food,
    For love and friends,
    For everything Thy goodness sends.

    – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

     

    Wishing each of you a happy day!

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

  • ~Lwa charms and jewelry~

    Hi there-

    If you havent already, check out Spellmaker's line of charms, earrings and bracelets dedicated to Les Lois!

    They make a wonderful gift to yourself or someone special….

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

  • Fet Ghede Altar Photos Updated!

    See here:

    http://voodooboutique.typepad.com/photos/altar_photos_/

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

  • Dollar Store Find!

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    Hi there!

    Those of you who were at our recent Video Conference saw the Dollar Store Voodoo presentation by Mambo Sam and myself. These two little fellows are my most recent dollar store find, just before Fet Ghede. Arent they adorable? They were 2 for a dollar! I used them on my Fet Ghede altar this year 🙂

    Light and Love

    Sister Bridget

  • Fall and Winter Service to Gran Bwa!

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    Just because the leaves are off the trees, doesn't mean we can't continue to serve Gran Bwa! Feeding the birds is a wonderful way to serve Gran Bwa in the colder months. Here is a bird feeder I found at the siore that reminded me of Ogoun as well 🙂

    Light and Love,

    Sister Bridget