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  • Once in a Blue Moon!

    Hello everyone,

    I am sure that most of you have seen that tonight we are having a blue moon! :-)  While there are some variations on the definition of a blue moon, this one is categorized as such due to the fact that it is the second full moon in the same month. 

    So what does this mean for us magickally?  According to moon magick beliefs, this is a great time to decide on setting new goals.  This is a time of creativity and starting new projects.  If you have going through something and want to have a fresh start, tonight is great time to put some energy towards that thought process.

    Light yourself a nice candle, put on some mood music, and write in your journal about any new projects that you would like to plan. Put some energy towards the idea that you are wanting a clean start on an old problem. Set goals for upcoming events and projects.  This is an awesome time to thing magickally, creatively, and with thoughts of letting go of past failures and looking forward to new successes.

    This is also a good time to charge up ritual objects that you might have – put them out in the moonlight! 

    If the weather holds out, charge yourself out in the moonlight, too!  Visualize the enriching rays filling you with promises of success, letting go of past failures, and sticking to new goals.

    Since we won't get another blue moon of this type until January 31, 2018, I think I will make some blue moon oil!  It's pretty easy! 

    What you need:  1 lodestone, 1 piece of iron pyrite, some blue violet leaves and whatever carrier oil you prefer.  Throw them into a mason jar, shake them up, and leave them out in the moonlight overnight. Voila! Blue moon oil charged up under the light of the blue moon.  This is an oil that can be used to consecrate objects, work with new projects, goal setting, creativity, etc.

    Have fun!

    Best regards,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

    Bluemoon

     

  • Punching the alien.

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    Happy Monday, everyone!

     I hope that each and every one of you had a great weekend.  :-)  Okay so besides the obvious humor of the picture above, it really did get me thinking a lot about how some of my clients approach their spell work.  Nice folks have a tendency to do "nice" spell work – I never see them punch the alien in the face! Unfortunately, that doesn't always get the best result.  Sometimes the alien needs a punch in the face. Now of course I am speaking metaphorically, but all the time I get Heart's Desire letters that are so sweetly and nicely written but I don't feel the fire, the passion, the real HEART'S DESIRE.  In other words, sometimes I think your petitions are written just too politely.

    Now that is not to say that a politely, nicely-written petition won't work, but every once in awhile, if your case is a difficult one, you might need to punch the alien in the face!  Get stronger in your wording, don't be afraid to shout from the spiritual rooftops what you want, how you want it, and when you want it.

    Polite always has a place in this world.  However, sometimes, you need to be stronger, get grittier, and down and dirty and tell us how you really feel. 😉

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

  • The Poor, Misunderstood 7-Knob Candle!

    Greetings everyone! I hope your week is going great!

    A very traditional magickal candle is the 7-knob candle. This candle, in one form or another, has been around for maybe thousands of years! I once saw a documentary about the Egyptian pyramids (well I have seen probably thousands of those LOL), and they found remnants of a "knobby" candle in a burial chamber!

    However, I do find that many people get confused on exactly how to use a 7-knob candle and wonder exactly what you can accomplish with it! 😉

    Now, technically, this candle is called a "7-knob Wishing Candle" and traditionally has been used to make 7 different wishes towards the same situation. You make the wish, burn that knob. When that knob burns down, you can then make a different wish (or perhaps even the same wish again).

    You can also use this candle to work on different aspects of a situation. For instance, let's say that you are doing love spell work and you have a somewhat complicated situation. You could use the 7-knob candle, using each knob of the candle to ask for relief or change in one part of the situation. Let's say you have an intruder to deal with, fear of commitment, the HD has financial problems, his children don't like you, he works too many long hours, etc., etc. Maybe these aren't all huge problems. Maybe some of them are just annoyances. However, you could use, for instance, a red 7-knob candle for a love situation (or even a trio of them if you have a lot of issues within your relationship) and petition for change for a different thing on each knob. Also, as I mentioned above, you could repeat petitions within the same candle, say, doing three knobs on him stopping him from spending time with the intruder, two knobs to make him feel more attracted to you, one knob petitioning for his children to like you, and one knob just to ask for peace in your relationship with him. 🙂

    Obviously these candles are not going to replace regular spell work, however, whether you have petty annoyances in your relationship or even more serious complications, these candles can help you in a lot of different ways!

    The same goes for other situations such as financial ones: You could use one knob to petition for a raise at work, one knob to help you budget better, and so forth and so on!

    So if you are looking at a situation in your life and thinking, "Gee, there are a lot of issues here" – you might be in the market for a 7-knob or two!

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

  • Stop the Nit-Picking! 😉

    Happy Friday, everyone!
    It is no surprise to our seasoned clients here at Spellmaker that we are major proponents of recommending that people take as many "real-world" measures as they can to repair their relationships as they do "magickal-world" measures. 🙂

    So many times clients will tell us that they are fighting all the time with their intended, or they don't see eye-to-eye, or they are conflicts in their relationship that they just don't seem to be able to resolve. I really liked this particular article that I am linking you to because while it technically has to do with tips for a good marriage, I could easily see how this article could be applied in part to a relationship you want to have or even to a non-romantic relationship.

    A lot of articles and so-called relationship gurus seem to think that everyone has been born with some semblance of knowledge of how to sustain a relationship. From what Parran Matt and I see everyday, that just isn't so. Some people need to start from square one and rethink how they approach relationships. I see people making the same mistakes over and over again with little insight into their own role in making a happy relationship.

    No one article is going to solve someone's relationship problems, but education about what makes a happy relationship can help you in both the real world and the magickal world. 😉 It can help you to know what you want and how to keep it when you get it!

    Feel free to comment on the article!

    WebMd Guide Article – click here!

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

  • What the Funk?

    Hi everyone!

    I don't know what is in the air, the water, or the oscillating energy textile vibrations of the Mars connection (okay, I made that last one up)!  Seriously, what is going on out there?  So many folks that I know are in a huge funk right now – is it the economy?  Is it some sort of global funkittude (yep, made that one up, too). Is it the political atmosphere? Disillusionment? What is causing this funk? (But, just think – if we get rid of that "k" then it turns into "fun!")

    Well, if only it were that easy – I can drop that "k" and get FUN!  Truth is, it usually takes a lot more than dropping a letter to get us out of a funk!

    Not even the best of good articles will completely do the trick – though this one is pretty great!

    http://www.highexistence.com/choose-happiness-5-ways-to-get-out-of-a-funk

    I do believe understanding our funk is key!  Facing that situation head-on, although frightening, is going to help us much more than trying to hide from it.  Are you grieving?  Are you broke? Are you broken-hearted? Have you stopped believing in yourself? Do you just not give a damn right now?

    Guess what?  You are not alone.  You might feel isolated, but truthfully a few trips around the Internet will let you see that you have a lot of company. Heck, a trip around your friends and family might let you see that you have a lot of company!  I truly believe that reaching out in some way to someone is key to helping shed that funk!  Someone who will listen to you rant, rave, and probably finally break down in tears is invaluable. I have found that sometimes just verbalizing my feelings, out loud (not in an email or text) can be so helpful. When I am done, it seems that I can, somehow, face those challenges that were dragging me down.

    So I am going to say step one is talk to someone! All the self help tips in the world won't help you much if you don't feel like you have someone to talk to! Find that one person you can blather all the crap out to – hopefully someone who will just sit and listen – and then take a deep breath and figure out what, amongst all the self help stuff, can help you.  The article I reference above truly is a good one – it makes a lot of sense.  But, if you read the article, you will see that the gentleman who wrote it, first had sort of a "breakdown" to someone he loved! THEN he was able to go on to his self-help techniques!

    Of course, at Spellmaker, we sell lots of stuff for helping with negative energy – white candles, baths, etc. And I do recommend them, obviously! Sometimes you have to keep working with things – white candles are a good example of that.  Using the white male or female image candles on yourself can sometimes be an ongoing thing!  It just depends on how much stress you have in your life!  There isn't anything wrong with feeling like you need to spark up your candle every so often and burn off that negative energy!

    But most of all, I want you to talk with someone you trust!  Just for a minute, wallow in and embrace that funk! Tell them what you are feeling, tell them if you feel you are at the end of your rope… you might even tell them that you aren't looking for advice – you just want to vent! 😉  Then, look for the things that will help you with the situations at hand! 

    I know that things seem insurmountable sometimes; I have a pile of stuff going on right now that seems exactly that!  I know that I will get through it.  But I share in your funk!  Maybe we can share in getting rid of it, too! 🙂  Oh, and I almost forgot  - take it easy on yourself!!!!!  Not everything is your fault – I swear!

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com

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  • Imbolc, Maman Brigitte, and St. Brigid – Oh My!

    Greetings one and all!

    As many of you may already know – tomorrow, February 2, is St. Brigid's day, Imbolc, Candlemas,
    and the Feast of St. Brigid.  To Vodouisants, Catholics, Pagans, and more, this is a wonderful day anticipating spring, looking for new love, and being ready to shed off the cold of winter.

    A popular prayer for this day is:

    "Blessed be the earth, and all who dwell upon it.

    We give thanks for the season now departing from us,
    For the blessings it has bestowed upon us,
    And upon those with whom we share this world.

    Blessed be the new season.
    We pray that it will be a time filled with peace,
    With abundance, with prosperity,
    With wisdom,
    With love."

    For Vodouisants, tonight, the eve of  St. Brigid's Day, is when we put a piece of clothing outside for Maman Brigitte to bless with her healing powers.  Take any piece of clothing, or even a scarf to tie your head with, and put it outside tonight.  Ask Maman Brigitte to walk your way tonight and bless that piece of clothing.  Light a small fire outside for a little while, even if you just burn a candle. Before you go to bed, burn the veve of Maman Brigitte in the fire. Then put that fire or candle out.  Make sure the wax is smoothed down  or that the ashes are smoothed down if you lit a small fire.  Any kind of mark or disturbance of the wax or ashes the next day is considered a sign that Maman was there and blessed your piece of clothing!

    Now you can wear that piece of clothing any time you aren't feeling well or you doing healing work or healing prayers for someone else.

    Veve for Maman BrigitteVevemamanbrigitte

    Brigitimbolc

     

    There is a LOT more to this holiday/feast day!  It is well worth looking up more information.

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield

    www.spellmaker.com

     

     

  • Prayer Dilemma.

    Hello everyone!  Prayer is, naturally, a huge part of my life. You could almost say that I "pray for a living."  Spellwork is an organized, done-with-props, form of prayer.  So, needless to say, I consider myself somewhat of an expert on prayer.

    However, every once in awhile, I find myself overwhelmed with a situation to the point of not knowing where to begin with praying.  The famine in Somalia is one of those situations (along with so many other world-wide situations).  As  I learned of this horrible situation, my first reaction, of course, was to pray for those in need.  As  I started to say prayers, I found myself feeling overwhelmed and confused on where to even start.  The situation is so desperate and so huge that I found myself stumbling over the prayers – praying for relief, praying for those who died, praying for those children who are suffering and dying, praying for the parents of those children, praying that whatever needed to be done would be done…. the list just seemed so huge to me that I felt completely insignificant in my prayers.

    I had to regroup within myself several times, each time feeling a little bit stronger, offering individual prayers for each segment of this seemingly hopeless situation and then overall prayers for just the situation in general.  Usually when I am finished with my prayers, I feel satisfied and enriched by the experience.  I cannot say this was true when I finished praying for this particular event. At first, I felt drained and still ended up feeling helpless.

    As  I have continued on praying for Somalia, I feel that my praying has improved.  I asked Papa Legba to help me – to help me interpret my prayers and put them into understandable words and thoughts rather than my incoherent ramblings! I asked him to open  up my mind to accept that while this is, indeed, a seemingly impossible situation, that still I would find the words to pray.

    If you find yourself feeling this way, that a situation is just so huge that you feel that your prayers are insignificant, I encourage you to push through that feeling and just continue on.  Don't give up because you feel like your tiny prayers can't possibly make a difference!  I had to keep reminding myself that I am not the only person praying for this and that as the Universal Mind we can and do have an impact on these tragedies!  Know that you are not alone in these prayers!  Don't give up because you feel that you are just a tiny voice.  We are all a tiny voice, but we can make a big noise when we do it together. Ask Papa Legba!

    Please pray for the people of Somalia and all those who are in need around the world.  Be proactive in your prayers and in giving whatever help you can.  Donations to reputable charities are wonderful, obviously, but even if you cannot donate (times are hard!), think about perhaps organizing a prayer group of your own, or donating your time to a reputable charity. There are lots of ways to give even if you don't have money to give!  The gifts of your time and prayers are invaluable.  Don't ever think they aren't!

    Join the Spellmaker Prayer Group tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern time and add your voice!

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com

    Prayers

     

  • Making Healthy Decisions – Part 6

    Good morning everyone!  As we continue on with our series on making healthy decisions, I wanted to stop for a moment and clarify what this series is all about.  Many of my readers are those engaged in more esoteric studies – spells, spiritual growth, magickal endeavors, etc.  Those readers are tending to put this exercise in that category.  While it can be used in that way to some degree, this is meant to be about every day decision making.  Some of the information may be useful in spell casting, but really it would be more useful deciding when or if to do spell casting, not so much to assist you with the actual process. 🙂

    Our next question to ask ourselves when making a decison is: 

    What Really Matters?

    This can be extremely beneficial.  Taking the time to figure out what really matters to you is crucial to making a good decision.  For some of us, we think that everything matters equally – we are passionate about every little thing. On the surface, this can seem admirable; when you look a little deeper you will see that this means that we treat all things equally.  It is very difficult to live successfully in this way.  Prioritzing things in your life will make you more organized, let you know when to pick your battles (and not everything is worth a battle – really, it isn't), and allow you to let go of certain things in order to accomplish other, more important, things.

    For most people,  beings with emotional capabilities will come first – children, spouses, parents, friends, pets, etc. For some, they themselves will come first.  After those obvious choices, what really  matters after that?  Understanding what your priorities are and how your decision impacts them will allow you to weed out things that don't matter and leave you with a clearer understanding of what your decision needs to be.

    For instance, is your job the means by which you take care of the things that are most important (money) or is there another way that you care for those things (emotionally, perhaps)?  If you say yes to the former, then job decisions are going to be weighed against the impact on others. If you say yes to the latter, then job decisions may be based entirely on other criteria.

    Therefore, deciding what really matters to you will help you in making a healthy  decision.  🙂

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com

    Decisionsahead
     

  • Making Healthy Decisions – Part 4

    PLEASE NOTE: Sorry, I accidently got these out of order! So after this will actually come Part 6 since Part 5 was already published. Sorry for the confusion!

    Greetings, everyone! As we continue on with our series about making healthy decisions, we move on to our next question to ask ourselves:

    What Am I Not Seeing?

    We have a tendency to sometimes protect ourselves in difficult situations by not being willing to seek out what we are not wanting to see about a situation. It is something we all do – we can have a tendency to gloss over the details that are unpleasant to us. Naturally this can lead to some disasters in decision making!

    Often, what we're not seeing is what we don't want to see. While it may be difficult, or sometimes even painful, force yourself to look at what you don't want to see. Hiding details from yourself is truly not helping you. Trying to force an objective, dispassionate view of the situation can be tricky and take some practice, but try it! It is very difficult for a human being to try to remove emotion from a decision. Sometimes we can trick ourselves into it by pretending that the situation actually belongs to someone else – what would we tell them that we can see?

    Looking at the situation from the outside looking in can often really help us in seeing what we think might not be there! Taking off our blinders and searching for clues might be difficult, however, the end reward is completely worth it!

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com

  • Healthy Decision Making – Part 5

    Hello everyone! We are at the half way point in our series on making healthy decisions! I forgot to mention in the beginning that these things should be done in order! Ask the questions in the order in which they are presented. For instance, today's question:

    What Would my Grandmother

    (or mother, father, Jesus, Buddha, the Lwa, whomever's philosophy your admire) Do?

    Thinking of a role model, whether a great spiritual teacher, admired friend or family member, spiritual person, etc., is like having a mentor on-call. Ask yourself what this person would do if facing the same situation. You should use someone whose philosophies are well known to you and are admired by you. This is not to offset your own opinion or philosophy but rather to put things in perspective by looking at another point of view, one you have admired.

    This is not to go get another opinion, this is more to see what your decision would like if shaped around an admired philosophy. The decision might not be exactly right for you configured within those parameters, however, it will give you another perspective to consider. This question should be asked after you have established the prior points in this exercise. You must first consider your own feelings and thoughts before putting someone else's spin on your decision! 🙂

    Love, light, and peace,

    Mambo Samantha Corfield, www.spellmaker.com