Mambo Samantha Corfield

Feast of the Archangels

Hello everyone!

Today is the Feast of the Archangels - Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel.  :-)  I won't go into detail here except to say that this is a GREAT power day for Vodouisants and other spiritualists.  If you come to the Spellmaker Online Voodoo Conference in September, I will be explaining how this particular feast day figures into our New Orleans Voodoo liturgy! 

Of course,I bet some of my smartie pants Khouzhans can figure it out!  LOL.  Love you!

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

A Few Words about Guidance

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand

Happy Friday, everyone!  I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned! 

I wanted to talk just a moment about guidance.  People are always asking me about getting guidance from the lwa, or other spirits, and we have discussed that and will discuss it further in a different post.

However, one thing that people seem to forget about is their inner guidance, their gut, their instincts.  So many times folks have told me that they "knew" they were doing the wrong thing, or that something wasn't right for them, but they just ignored their instincts and went head long into disaster.

Learning to trust your very own guidance and instincts is such an important task!  It may not be easy, and sometimes you may just feel like you are paranoid.  You may feel that you are just making up a feeling because you are afraid.  All of that may actually be true at one time or another.  But how many times have you said to yourself after the fact that you should have followed your own instincts? 

In my opinion, the best way to learn to trust your own instincts is to practice it!  Surprise, just like everything else, right?  :-)  But practice it in a certain way!  Try using your instincts or inner guidance at times when it doesn't matter so much. Think about things you are about to do and see how you feel about them.  It could be something as simple as taking a walk or choosing a restaurant.  Stop just for a minute and truly examine how you feel inside about your choice.  Most of the time, when it is something simple like that, you will feel just fine about it, as you should.  But what you are truly doing here is honing your skills at figuring out how to listen to your own instincts.  In choosing to do exercises like this when it doesn't count so much, you will start to build those skills you need to make the right choices when it really does count!

Start practicing listening to that still, small voice inside.  Best thing, it is always, always, always there just for you!  Your Inner Buddy!  :-)

Love, light, and peace,

Mambo Samantha Corfield
www.spellmaker.com

 

 

With Love in Your Heart....

and you have to mean it!  :-)

Hello everyone!  I had to take a little break from blogging while Parran Matt was out of town as I had to handle the orders in the office.  :-)  Hopefully I didn't screw up too many of your orders.  If you got something unusual, that was probably my mistake - just let us know!

Anyway, I was recently have a great consultation with a dear client of mine and, as I have on many occasions, I had the guidance that her fellow was feeling like maybe he had made too many mistakes and I felt like he was believing that her door was closed to him.  I encouraged her to use whatever products she had on hand, her love doll, candles, etc., to petition towards him that, yes, they could start over, yes, her door was still open, and yes, things could work out between them; the past could be in the past and they could start over... and then....

came my admonishment, "Honey, you have to MEAN it when you say it!"  :-) 

So many people come to me with hurt from their relationship, having been treated badly, cheated on, etc.  However, they still want to be with that person, they still love them.  That part is fine.  However, where the challenge can sometimes come in is that when you are doing this love spell work you absolutely, positively have to do it with pure love in your heart.  You cannot feed your anger, hurt, and negative feelings into your spell work.  I am not saying this is an easy thing to do.  It's hard.  Really hard sometimes.  H owever, love spell work is about LOVE - both giving and receiving.  You have to truly give it to get it.

No, I don't mean you have to take someone's bad treatment of you, that is not what I mean at all.  However, you can use your spell work to try to change that bad treatment, to let the person know that  you don't intend to take that treatment anymore, but it has to be with the love in your heart that you truly feel for them.  However, it is not just WHAT you say, it is also how you FEEL when you say it.  If you are just phoning it in, it isn't going to work for you. 

I always recommend to people to not do love spell work when they are feeling angry.  You have to set aside that anger, even if you can just do it for the time of the spell work.  And that is kind of the trick - you can still keep your anger and your hurt (though we want to work on that, too!), just compartmentalize it.  Decide before you start your work to set aside those negative feelings.  You will actually feel much better for that time period, too!  Do those candles or love dolls or spell castings with pure love in your heart for the person you intend to affect with your work.  Just for those minutes, fantasize that nothing bad has ever happened between you - there is just pure love and joy being sent out.  :-)  That will definitely send out the right energy and you will feel it and you will benefit from it, too! 

Try it!

 
Love,light, and peace,

Mambo Samantha Corfield
www.spellmaker.com

 

In Memoriam

Hello everyone,

As I am sure most of you do, I remember exactly where I was when the attack on America occurred September 11, 2001.  Despite the nauseating trend of politicians, religious terrorists, and other agenda-driven zealots to use 9/11 as their personal pawn, the horror of the day and the act remains a vivid personal memory. 

I hope we can all take a moment to remember the lives lost that day, and many other days, all in the name of someone's different belief system.

Love, Mambo Sam

New! Vodou Spirit Bracelets!

Happy Monday, everyone!  Happy Labor Day!

I am really excited to be offering another item into our jewelry and charms dedicated to the lwa! This time it is bracelets... very nice, really sturdy - made with rubber, leather, and stainless steel.  Each is consecrated to a particular lwa.

There is something especially powerful about a good bracelet that has been blessed to bring out the power of a particular lwa.  Bracelets are generally worn on the wrist where the pulse points are bringing the power out into your hands - the hands that do magick and spell work!  :-)  Needless to say, putting something powerful right onto the very source of your energy flow is very desirable.

Plus, I think these bracelets look really great, too!  Bonus! :-)  I am definitely hoping to add more to this collection!

Check them out on the page with the Vodou Charms and Earrings!

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday!

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

This Year's Video Voodoo Convention - Coming Soon!

Hi everyone!

As most of you already know, we are doing our convention this year as an online Video Voodoo Convention!

It is really exciting to get some of the topics together:

• The Church of the Nine Mysteries™ - what is it, who can join, why does it exist, the family history behind it and www.spellmaker.com
• The Lwa Road Less Traveled - we all know the "major arcana" of lwa - but who are the lwa less well known?  What can we do for them? What can they do for us?
• Visiting Sacred Places - how do visits to sacred places help us learn the syncretization of lwa to other spiritual beings?
• Making Your Personal Veve - how to do it, what it means, how to use it.
• Voodoo Sacred Object Workshop - making a wand; what does it do, what does it mean, how do you use it (yes, a voodoo wand!)
• The Universal Love of Love Spells - beyond "get Johnny" what more is there to love spell magick?
• Folk Magick Spells - quick, easy spells to enhance day-to-day life
• Thunderstones of Ogoun - what are they, what do they do, what do they mean?
• Sex Magick for Creation - beyond the obvious, what can sex magick do for you?
• Marie Laveau - her history and importance to New Orleans Voodoo
• Healing Techniques of Voodoo
• Lwa Syncretizations
• Voodoo Reading Techniques
• Herbs, lamps, oils, etc.

............. and MORE - still working on the rest of the list! 

If you don't see your favorite subject here, just give me a minute, I am not done yet!  LOL.  Can't wait to see you all there!

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

Remember the Chinese Harvest Moon Ritual?

Hi everyone!  I am sure that some of you remember my post from 2007 about the Chinese Harvest Moon Ritual!

It is almost time for that festival to be celebrated all over the world again - September 22, 2010 is the date that the festival falls on this year.

The link above will take you to the page where I explained the festival and one of the intriguing aspects of the harvest moon ritual - single ladies looking for the right man to be brought to them! :-)

It is such a fun and beautiful legend.  It is a wonderful time, also, to honor our dear Erzulie Freda and you can do her ritual pack, or any of our other products dedicated to her, in conjunction with doing the harvest moon ritual!

If nothing else, please do click on my link to read about the Chinese Harvest Moon Ritual because it is such a beautiful and fascinating tradition!

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

 

Is it okay if I.....

missed a day of my spell work, forgot to light the incense three days in a row, didn't do the reflection part of the spell, and, oh, didn't bother with the sand trail?  Is it okay, Mambo?  Will this mess up my spell work?

Greetings everyone!

Hardly a day goes by that I don't get someone asking me something "messing up" their spell work because of things they did or didn't do.  Mostly it is after the fact and often is phrased as, "Is it okay that I......?"

Frankly, no, not really, it isn't okay.  For sure things happen sometimes that we cannot control.  However, a lot of what I hear that people did was completely avoidable.  First off, READ the spell kit instructions.  Getting four days into the spell work and figuring out that you forgot a step is really avoidable.  Read the spell kit instructions; read them before you ever start the spell and get your questions answered.  Then, use the instructions.  I don't see how people miss steps when the instructions are clearly meant to be used. You don't have to memorize anything - you follow along the book.

Life can be hectic and get in the way of our spell work!  No one knows that better than me!  Like I said, sometimes it is totally unavoidable to miss parts of spell work, emergencies happen, etc. Truthfully, though, about 95% of the things that people do to mess up their spell work is avoidable.  Be careful and thoughtful about what you are doing.  If you truly, in your heart of hearts, want what you say you want from the spell work, then you should be extremely careful and dedicated to what you are doing.

You have to ask yourself, if I don't care enough to do this spell work right, do I truly want what I think I want? If you feel like the spell is too much work, or too hard to do, or takes too much of your time - do you absolutely, truly want what you think you want?   As most of you know, we do, of course, offer solo castings for those folks who cannot do their own spell work for one reason or another.  That is fine!  But even at that, we send you a Holy Relic card to work with and I cannot believe the number of people who tell me they never used it and, "is that okay?"  NO. It's not okay.  You are sending out a very mixed message to Les Lois, God, and even me about what you want!

A large part of the success of spell work depends on YOU; what do you want, why do you want it, and do you really want it?  What energy are you putting out there?  Please think about that the next time you pick up your work to do it.  If you think your spell work or adjunct work is a pain in your butt and you dread doing it, you should give some serious thought to the goal you think you want.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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