{"id":316,"date":"2008-11-11T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T16:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T16:04:25","slug":"albuquerque-voodoo-convention-was-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque Voodoo Convention was AWESOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! The Convention was truly a great event!&#0160; It was really great to see some familiar faces and just as great to meet with the new ones.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>The weekend was filled with fun and learning.&#0160; Saturday nights Fet Ghede celebration went so very well with everyone sharing a meal together and then participating in all the activities of the night.&#0160; Fet Ghede is the time that we honor our ancestors as well as celebrate the Vodou New Year.&#0160; Everyone was given the opportunity to throw the traumas and negativities of the old year into the fire for a fresh new start!<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we fed our ancestors at a beautiful ancestor altar, lit candles for them, and then made ouanga bottles to use throughout the year to connect with our beloved ancestors.&#0160; We wrote them notes that went into a special vessel and also wrote their names on candles that are actually still being burned here in the office.&#0160; It was extremely powerful to connect with everyone&#39;s family is this beautiful way.<\/p>\n<p>Each person who attended the convention met with me for a one-on-one consultation and brief ritual to help them attain their goals.&#0160; It is a very special time when I get to spend this private time with each client.<\/p>\n<p>I am still in the category of &quot;tired but happy&quot; and already miss everyone who was here and can&#39;t wait for next year! I will share much more with you all soon.&#0160; Here is a picture of our wonderful ancestor altar that we built.&#0160; (Everyone was invited to have a picture of their ancestors on the altar.)<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mambo Sam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54edc5c688833010535ed6d7e970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00069\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e54edc5c688833010535ed6d7e970c image-full \" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/voodooboutique.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54edc5c688833010535ed6d7e970c-800wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 66.82%; HEIGHT: 360px\" title=\"DSC00069\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! The Convention was truly a great event!&#0160; It was really great to see some familiar faces and just as great to meet with the new ones.&#0160; The weekend was filled with fun and learning.&#0160; Saturday nights Fet Ghede celebration went so very well with everyone sharing a meal together and then participating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[6,15,195,158,196,62,4],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque-voodoo-convention","tag-love-spells","tag-mambo-sam","tag-mambo-samantha-corfield","tag-samantha-corfield","tag-sheer-goddess","tag-the-voodoo-boutique","tag-voodoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}