Mambo Samantha Corfield

Ancestor Candle Making!

Hello dear readers!

As most of you probably already know, we have begun making ancestor candles and offering them in our Etsy shop!  Parran Matt is hand making these candles and we are consecrating them in the names you provide for ancestor service. Each and every candle is handmade, hand poured, specifically for the person who orders it.   Even though we always think of the ancestors at this time of year, we certainly will be offering this candle year round, as anytime is a good time to work with and honor your ancestors.  

The making of these candles has been such a fulfilling experience!  We ask each person to send in names of their ancestors when they order the candle.  Then using an "ashes to ashes" type of mindset, we burn those names and offer up a prayer of honor to your ancestors.

 

After the ashes are burned and the proper prayers have been said, the ashes are then added to the candle wax of your candle.

 

Your candle is then poured into the skull mold and allowed to cool and then get ready for shipping to you along with incense, a little bottle of Fet Ghede potion, and instructions on how to use your candle for ancestor service.

If you don't know WHY you are serving your ancestors, let me just say that you must thank them for life itself... without them, there is NO YOU!  If you are going through tough times, feel lost, have problems you cannot find the solution to,  call upon your ancestors.  If you are doing well, prospering, and living a happy life, then thank your ancestors!  

Ancestor service is certainly not unique to the Vodou life; many, many cultures and religions offer honor and service to their ancestors.  All Souls' Day, Dia de los Muertos, and many other celebrations all offer honor to our ancestors. However, as Vodouisants, we believe that not just one day is for ancestor service, but rather we always want to keep our ancestors in mind.  Our hierarchy is:  God, ancestors, the lwa.   So your ancestors are considered even more important than the lwa themselves; if you call upon the lwa, you should also be honoring your ancestors! :-)

Your ancestors know you; they can protect you, guide you, and walk with you.  All you need to do is call on them and offer them the respect that they so richly deserve. This particular candle is one way to do just that! 

If you need it by Fet Ghede (November 2, 2014), then please order by 10/24/2014.  However, the candle can be used anytime!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/207245046/maman-brigittes-ancestor-memorial-candle

Love, light, and peace,

Mambo Samantha Corfield

www.spellmaker.com

 

 

 

The Making of a New Oil - Holy Spirit Psalm Oil

Hello everyone,

Hope your summer is going great so far!  People often asks how we do things... oil making is definitely one of those things that people ask about. I thought using our new Holy Spirit Psalm Oil as an example would be a good way to explain how we do it. We have this oil available both on the website and in our Etsy shop.

First, new products are added as we see a need for them.  Nothing we sell at www.spellmaker.com is arbitrary. Nearly every product has been created because a number of people asked for it.  Obviously, since 1995 there has been a lot of asking.

There is a lot of interest in the Psalms of the Bible both for religious and magickal reasons.  The idea was born to make an oil that could be used both ways; it is appropriate for religious practices and also for magickal practices.  All of the nine ingredients in the oil are mentioned somewhere in the Bible.  This includes things like mustard seed, rose, olive oil, etc.  

Second, with all of our oils, there is a "mother."  The mother is the first batch of the oil with all of its herbs, stones, resins, etc.  Usually this is made in a glass jar of some kind.  Every Spellmaker oil that you have used had a mother.  Naturally, over the almost 20 years, the mother has been absorbed into most of the oils but we continue to use the same containers and keep the essence of the oil alive over the years.

With the Holy Spirit Psalm oil, we started out with our dry ingredients not mixed with the wet ingredients.  Everthing was consecrated and dedicated separately and left to absorb the consecration energy for three days.  On the third day, the ingredients were mixed and two jars of mother oil were made.  These were then left for 7 days to steep and create their own spectacular energy.  The oil turned out to be amazing!!

This oil is great for praying with the Psalms in a religious way and in a magickal way (and we provide you with a PDF of the Book of Psalms and also a PDF of how to use the oil in candle burning as well as with certain affirmations that go with certain Psalms).  It is also perfect for protection, blessing, anointing... just about anything, really, for which you would want to use a good all-purpose oil.  

If you have a problem with things of a "Christian" nature, then all I can say is don't use it!  But remember, the Psalms, historically speaking, predate the birth of Jesus.  In fact, many theologists, including yours truly, see some of it as a prediction of the birth of Jesus.  But that is a discussion for another day, I suppose.  

Magickal usage of the Psalms has been around for more years than any of us really know. Particular Psalms are prayed for particular things.  Many books have been written about the magickal usages of the Psalms! If you look at the page referenced above where the Psalm oil is listed on our website, and take a look at the document about Candle Burning and Affirmations, you will get the idea how the Psalms are used in magickal practices.  (It's free to download the documents.)

Anyway, hope this gives you an idea of how we have always made our oils!

Love, light, and peace,

Mambo Samantha Corfield

www.spellmaker.com

Ingredients!

 

 

The Mothers