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Free Love Ritual to Erzulie Freda!!

Greetings everyone! We are once again offering our free love spell ritual to the Vodou love goddess, Grand Mistress Erzulie Freda. As some of you may already know, we offered this love spell ritual on Valentine's Day 2006, 2007, and 2008! It was a great success with everyone's petitions being sent in for the ritual that was done here at our office on Valentine's Day.

 As always, we will ask that you send us an email with your requests for the ritual.  There is no charge to be involved in the ritual.  We do have products dedicated to Erzulie available again and this year we have added a special one-day ritual kit that we are offering. 

So many people enjoyed the Sobo Ritual Pack that we decided to create one for Erzulie Freda!  However, there is no need to purchase anything to be included in the ritual - the Erzulie Ritual Pack is a convenience for those who wish to use it.

Check it all out at www.spellmaker.com/erzulie.htm

Love, Mambo Sam

 As always, we will ask that you send us an email with your requests for the ritual.  There is no charge to be involved in the ritual.  We do have products dedicated to Erzulie available again and this year we have added a special one-day ritual kit that we are offering. 

So many people enjoyed the Sobo Ritual Pack that we decided to create one for Erzulie Freda!  However, there is no need to purchase anything to be included in the ritual - the Erzulie Ritual Pack is a convenience for those who wish to use it.

Check it all out at www.spellmaker.com/erzulie.htm

Love, Mambo Sam

Introspection and a positive outlook

Some things are easy to change through behavior.  Sometimes it is about having a more positive outlook on life, and going forward.  Sometimes it takes a little more.

This Christmas and New Years I was able to kind of take a minute and reflect on the past year.  This can be hard to do while you are living it, and you have a lot of stress from different things.  Nothing like taking stock during vacation!

  A lot of really great things have happened this year that I am so thankful about.  I know I harp about the economy a lot (because it’s so freakin bad and scary!!!)  but in such a bad time, I have a lot of good.  I really want to embrace that good and try to keep it going for another year.   Sometimes spellwork can be done just to keep the positive flow going – physically and emotionally.

My sister has gone through some major changes in her life.  She attributes them partially to reading “The Secret”.  She is not a very “new age” type of person.   She is very practical, and incredibly smart.  She does not throw herself into self help books looking for the answers to life, but does acknowledge the positive things they can provide.

So anyway, she said she gets it.  And to paraphrase her, she said that her understanding of it is that if you are negative and down all the time then you are going to receive negative in return.   You put the bad out there and the bad is all you are going to get.

Now it is much easier said than done to change your outlook on life.  When things are going badly whether it is love related, money related, or something else, it is hard not to feel isolated in your pain.   It hurts! And it is a fresh, in your face, down and dirty kinda hurt!  It is.  I understand. I have been there. I have been through hard times in love, I have been broker than broke, and I have experienced losses. 

But wallowing in the bad will not help you.  You have to find a way to turn it around and love your life.  Love the positive you have been given.  Of course, make goals and strive for more, but start with yourself.  Start within.

Ask yourself some hard questions.   Figure out what you are putting out there.  If you want love but you aren’t willing to give love, then why do you deserve it?   Why do you deserve to get this job more than another person does?  Why do you deserve to get money in your life?  If you have been cursed then did you do anything to bring that curse upon you?  Do not be a victim.  Take responsibility and make a change.  Think hard about these things and try to make yourself the person who does deserve the good.   And if you are a good person that doesn’t mean you get to stop!  Keep striving! Keep being a good person!

Thanks for reading

Berkeley

Revisting Making Me The Star of My Life

So I havent posted on this topic in a while, but someone I talked to recently asked how things were going regarding my post  from November about making myself the star of my life.

Things are going great! 

In November I posted that my goal was to lose 20 pounds.  I didn’t yet, but I did make some headway, and some realistic steps towards that goal.  I have been exercising on a regular basis again and am working really hard on getting fit. 

Like many other women (including Oprah!)  I have had an ongoing battle with my weight.  I have ranged from 130lbs up to 215lbs and everywhere in between.    I am nowhere near my heaviest weight, but I am overweight and I would like to get in better shape.  I know how to crash diet and lose weight fast, but it is really important to me to get fit instead of just thin. 

What I am doing to get fit is a lot of walking.  I walk 5 times a week, and since school is starting soon I am going to be able to take some physical type classes.  They were out of session for the winter break, but they start up this week.  I am looking at taking Pilates and Kickboxing. 

Also, I got a wonderful reading with Sister Bridget about the upcoming year as a guide.  The things that I didn’t see happening that I want to happen are my further goals.  Then there are things that might be happening which I wanted to strengthen or remove.  I am doing this through behavior, goal setting and spellwork.

I started this year with The Baron’s Purple Bath to bury the negative from the past year that I might be holding onto, consciously or subconsciously and start the year with a renewed me.   Then I did the Marie Laveau Clean Sweep House Blessing Kit to refresh and renew my home.    These things helped me to sort of take an assessment of where I am in life, and release old ideas and form new goals.   More to come :)

Thanks for reading

Berkeley

Day of Service

Barack Obama and his team have been talking about and promoting January 19, Martin Luther King Day, as a National Day of Service.   This idea originated with the family of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Obama administration and people have thrown great support behind it.  What they are requesting is that Americans go out and volunteer.   That each person does something for someone or something else with no material compensation.  I freakin love this!!

When I was in high school volunteer service was required in order to graduate.  We each had to do 100 hours, and it had to be documented.  We had to have signatures from people in charge of where ever we volunteered and hours logged.  It was a great experience for a young person at an age where you might tend to think everything revolves around you.

Volunteer service is a great thing to do for anyone.  It is especially great for those who are in a waiting period with their spells.  Sometimes people do love spells and want them to work right away.  They dont always work right away.  There are a wide variety of reasons for this.  But in the meantime we often recommend going out and taking a class or volunteering.  I cannot stress enough how much volunteering can help take your mind off of spellwork!  If you have not done it, or have not done it in a long time, then do it now. Try it!  Give something good of yourself for a cause that is bigger than you.

You can help people, or if you dont really like people right now then help animals.  With the economy doing badly believe me, there are a lot of people and creatures that need help! 

IF you need help finding opportunities in your area please see http://www.mlkday.gov/
Thanks for reading
Berkeley

Thats the Life I Chose

I had a friend who used to say that to me whenever I complained about something.  That’s the life you chose.  At the time I didn’t really appreciate his wisdom, but I have come to very much.  We all have personal responsibility in the majority of situations we find ourselves in.   This phrase really helped me to understand what mine is and to realize I am not a victim of fate, but often my own decisions and inaction.

This year I went home for the holidays.  I was around the people who helped formulate my world views, and I was really able to assess where I am in comparison to where I was, and where they are.   I know confusing sentence – but I am about to clarify, I promise!

My aunt got mad at my uncle for not putting enough thought into the gift he gave her.  He has purchased his Christmas gift for her the same way every year.  From my perspective he does put thought into it.  He gets her a gift, which is more than some people can say about their partner.  She has never taken the time to really explain to him what she needs in a calm manner.  She has the life she chose.  She chose to stay with him for over forty years, she chose to not ask him to get counseling, she chose to not communicate her needs.  This is the life she chose and continues to choose. 

I have a cousin who is married and is cheating.   She doesn’t want to divorce her husband because he is the primary breadwinner and well divorce is scary as hell.  But she says she is in love with the other fella.  What is a girl to do?  It is not my place to judge or condemn her – I work for a Voodoo Priestess for goodness sake!  I get judged for that daily.  Plus she is family.  It is my job to be there for her and tell her I love her, and if she will listen try to call her on her crap when she is making excuses for her behavior.   The bottom line is that she needs to take responsibility for her life, and try to not hurt all parties (any worse) at this point.   She chose to get married, she chose to stay when she was not happy, she chose to not work for the past 10 years and be financially dependent upon someone else, and she chose to cheat.  Now she has to rectify all those decisions and try to start making better ones for herself.    

I myself have been through a divorce.  A bit over five years ago I drove cross country with a friend and realized how completely unhappy I was.  I realized that I had chosen the wrong life and  I was continuing to choose the wrong life,  assuming it would get better.  I thought that marriage was supposed to be work, and that you have good years and bad years, and I just happened to have a string of bad years.  The trip helped me realize that I needed to choose a different path.   I did.  I got divorced and moved on to be a better self.  My ex  found the love of his life and got remarried.    It was a hard choice, but it is not a choice I have ever regretted!

I have since discovered that marriage is not supposed to be just ok.  It is supposed to be great.  At this point in time women and men have options and resources.   We are empowered, and need to own our lives. 

If you are not happy then you need to seriously ask yourself why and what you can do to become happy.    If the person you are with is not giving you the right gift then you need to sit down and assess what you really want and if this is truly about a gift.  If you are not happy in a relationship then see if it is fixable, if not then end it.  If you are cheating then why are you cheating?    

When you feel like a victim (and no violent crime has been done to you) then tell yourself,  “Thats the life I chose”  and see what starts rattling around in your brain.   When you start assessing your choices you can start making better ones for yourself and you might find things really change for the positive  in  your life!  :)

New Year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Now what...?

I used to not especially like change.  I hated January because Christmas was done, and now here we were with the new year, which to me tends to indicate change.  Even if it is just the change of writing a new date on checks, it is a change. 

But I have come to stop hating change, and realize that I can prepare for it and perhaps even ensure the change will be positive.  The main way I have found to do this is to have readings, and spellwork.  Readings can be a great tool to arm you with information about your potential future – good or bad.  

Many people tend to want to hear good things during readings, and do not see the importance of the negative things.  Personally, I want to know the negative things.  I want to know that I might be in danger, or that someone I love might do something that I might consider a betrayal because the future is fluid.  That means through my own behavior, or through spellwork I could change the info in that reading.  And if I can’t then at least I can be a few steps closer to being mentally prepared!  For a person like me who hates surprises, emotional preparedness is invaluable!

Sometimes the key is finding a person who can read well for you.  Some people have had a bad experience with one reader and think they are all crap.  They are not.  I have had plenty of bad readings in my life, and I have found a set of folks who read for me perfectly now through Spellmaker.com.  Sometimes it takes a little faith, and a willingness to try a reading (or try again). 

So January is a great time to get a reading to see what the next 6 months, or the next 12 months might hold for you.  Sister Bridget offers a 13 card reading which I have found is perfect for the Year Reading.  Currently spellmaker.com has a sale of 25% off of everything – including readings, and for a limited time Sister Bridget is willing to “Super Size” your reading order with her.  For the next two weeks (ending January 15, 2009)  any reading you order with Sister Bridget you can get 15 minutes extra. So for example,  if you order the 15 minute reading, she will give you a 30 minute reading.  This is a great deal and I cannot recommend Sister Bridget’s readings enough!

http://www.spellmaker.com/bridget.htm