No Vacancy!

It was a season of 'no vacancy' yesterday on the gardener's daughter soap opera. It started when Jennifer requested for and got the generous service of a witch to cast spell on Carlos Eduardo. By the time the witch, called Shantal, finished with her spiritual consultation, she declared that Carlos Eduardo does not belong to Jenny but to another lady.

When Jenny angrily challenged the outcome, she told Jenny that IT IS WRITTEN, and cannot be changed. Jennifer de la Vega does not beg people, but she begged Shantal to help her cast spell on Carlos, she was advised by Shantal that destiny cannot be changed, but Jenny should change her acidic and embittered personality, to get a marital breakthrough.

For me this episode was a big lesson of life. Many of the problems we try unsuccessfully to spiritualize at times, were self-inflicted, and not necessarily orchestrated by our real rivals or imaginary enemies. The witch had no spiritual solution to Jenny's self-inflicted problems. All she needed was a change of attitude and outlook and her turn-around breakthrough, that she desperately sought would appear.

It was a 'no vacancy' situation when Marissa, burst on L.A in the secret love-nest, which he rented for his concubine, Andreina, many years ago. He tried with lame excuses to lie to Marissa that he just rented it, to cover up for the fact that he never really gave up that apartment three years ago, when Marissa told him to terminate the rent.

Marissa was in no mood for new lies to cover up the old. She simply told him that it was belated, and her mission was to challenge his refusal to sign divorce papers on the pretext of charges of adultery. She reminded him that he was the real culprit and 'chief adulterer', with his many concubines throughout their 20-year marriage that was full of deceptions and lies.

Many of us have read about this enchantment and disenchantment in Snippet 117.

Still talking about spell and enchantment, last Sunday, I heard a fairy but real tale of how a strange woman cast spell on one Mr.X, who abandoned his fiancee to marry the strange woman. That marriage lasted for some 12 years with three children to show for it. The story got blown open because, Mr. X sought to win a multi-million government contract, and was advised by friends to go to a fiery church for spiritual deliverance, if he must win the contract.

It was his wife that drove him to the church for the 5-day deliverance exercise, on the promise to come to pick him at the end of the program. The man was truly delivered during the program, particularly from the spell cast on him 12 years ago. When his wife returned to pick him 5 days later, everyone was amazed to heard the man accuse the woman of stealing his car.

He recognized that car as his, but swore that he had never met nor known the woman who, insisted that he was her hubby of 12 years. The drama made many people around to follow them to their house to verify the truth.

On getting there, it was found out that the woman was truly his wife. He recognized his three children and the house as his, but was himself shocked to see pictures of the woman he called stranger, and himself hanging in the living room. He burst out weeping, insisting that he never knew the woman. He also served the strange woman notice to quit his house; at that moment the woman broke down and confessed that she had cast a spell on him in order to trap him into the marrying her 12 years ago.

What a tale. It was Jennifer's spell-binding adventures yesterday that brought my memory to this tale. if she had succeeded, she may face a similar situation as the strange woman above, several years later. Thank God, she did not succeed and Shantal did not cooperate with her.

Signals of Downfall

Jennifer was a pathetic case yester-night on the Gardener's daughter soap. A careful observation of the romantic trajectory between her and Carlos Eduardo would show that there is an 'invincible and invisible hand' that blocks every of her scheme to cage the noble guy, Carlos Eduardo, into a matrimonial trap.

From the blues, her elaborately planned movement into a new house with Carlos, evaporated like a smoke into the air. The estate agent told her that the owner has refused to sell, nor even rent out the apartment to them. Carlos was secretly relieved but Jenny was furious, and almost ate the agent 'raw'.

While still grappling with that aspect, she began to pour invectives on Pedro for dating Marissa. She urged Carlos Eduardo not to allow such courtship because Pedro, according to her, " ... has no penny to his name, he is a Mr. nobody and a low life". Carlos could not bear the insults anymore, he yelled at her that she should not insult the grandfather of his son anymore. He turned around and angrily walked out of her apartment. END OF DISCUSSION!

All this signifies the end of Jennifer's reign of falsehood and deception. But because of her blind desperation, she would pursue her ambitious and evil scheme to her own peril. Her next step would be to go to a witchcraft coven to seek to bewitch Carlos by diabolical means, having failed to physically lure him into a matrimonial union. She was taken to the consultation room of witches by no less an obnoxious person than her Jezebelian younger sister- Carol. Further peep at the recipes in the gardener's kitchen can be found at Love Snippets 117, 118 and 119.

I have posted two bulk snippets of Esmeralda. What we have left now is the concluding snippet and Grand Finale. Check out Two Romantic adversaries that entered into the relationship of Jose Armando and Esmeralda. Also the beginning of triumphant love, that I posted as Valentine gifts yesternite. Thanks to Vivian, my gardener friend from Ogba, Lagos, who showered my husband and I with Valentine encomiums. I which you also an unending season of honey in your marriage.