Allison DuBois welcomes guest Margaret Jamison to discuss the transformative energies of the upcoming year, 2025, which is characterized as a time for endings and necessary releases. Margaret, a descendant of Appalachian grannies and a professor of Earth magic, shares her insights on cleansing rituals and intention-setting practices to prepare for the new year. The conversation highlights the importance of grounding and the use of specific herbs and crystals to create protective and nurturing environments. They explore various rituals, including a grounding floor wash and the significance of herbs like rosemary and rue in spiritual cleansing. Listeners are encouraged to embrace change and adapt as they navigate this pivotal year, fostering personal growth and spiritual transformation.

Takeaways

• Margaret Jamison emphasizes the importance of setting intentions for personal growth in 2025.
• The upcoming year will be marked by significant spiritual growth and transformative experiences.
• Allison and Margaret discuss various cleansing rituals to prepare for the new year.
• Cleansing your home and setting intentions are vital practices for welcoming 2025.
• Margaret shares her recipes for grounding floor washes to clear negative energies.
• The symbolism of the snake in Chinese astrology signifies adaptability and transformation in 2025.

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Here's world renowned medium Alison Dubois.

Today on the Dead Life, we welcome Margaret Jamison.

She's a descendant of Appalachian grannies, a light worker and my professor of Earth magic at Dead University.

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Well, Margaret, welcome back.

Oh, thank you.

Getting ready for the new year.

I know.

It was a little painful, but it was meant to be.

And we don't get another eight year for nine more years.

So we want to really enjoy this last bit of it.

So I thought it would be great to have you here today to talk to us about some of the rituals you're practicing to prepare for the new year.

So we can do that as well.

Well, it is a big one.

We're ushering in Chinese astrology, the year of the dragon out.

And actually you're going to find this interesting.

In Chinese astrology, this is the year of the snake.

But not only the snake, the wood snake.

Oh, wow.

And it just sounds like it's so in alignment with Tom McMullen's predictions for everything that ahead.

I just, I thought I have to.

Add that in the Vietnam War, I think is what started around that.

And like you said, it's going to be a year of real spiritual growth, but full of transitions.

We're going to have to be very open to releasing, letting go Being open to change, adapting, lots of closure.

And of course, it's not only things we're releasing, but people around us are also releasing things.

So it's going to be quite a heady mix, you know.

What are we open to releasing?

Really focusing, especially this year, more on the releasing and setting intentions for personal growth, transformation, getting ready to move forward.

It's a year where we're going to need a tremendous amount of grounding.

Yeah.

So out of the things that I'm doing to move forward are all around cleansing my home and getting ready to put more grounding energies, you know, into my practice.

I'm in Aries, so I'm going to need a lot of grounding this year.

So one of the things that I'm doing as the new year comes in is I'm doing a grounding floor wash.

So I'm taking.

You take about a gallon of water and you add a cup of vinegar in there and you add in some lemon, patchouli, rosemary, cedar, those kinds of grounding herbs.

And with the intention of clearing out anything negative, especially stagnant, holding you back and opening up the space to renewal and mopping the floor with that is one of the things that really helps a lot of people on the 1st already wash their front doors, you know, do a cleansing on their front doors and set intentions for prosperity entering their house in the new year, or they do it monthly for the new month.

But this year adding some of those grounding herbs in, even a little eucalyptus maybe, and really washing that front door down, because you're going to need a little bit of protection also.

What comes through that front door this year.

Yeah.

So kind of, you know, those little cleansings that we do, not just the smudging work, but also really cleaning the clutter out.

Do you make spray bottles with vinegar, water, lemon patchouli and rosemary?

Do you know what I am making?

I'm gonna post those recipes and anybody is interested, they can message me and I will send them the floor wash recipe.

And then there's a floor sweep recipe that you can also use.

Yes.

And full of herbs to really promote clarity of thought, you know, for that, that intention, that grounding to give us the stability to get through all of that and then as herbs and oils for spiritual growth and transformation.

And so those oils will be in my shop.

And like I said, I will post recipes, the recipes or sweep recipes.

And if people aren't hooked up on Instagram or Facebook, if they.

If they message me, I'll.

I'll send them the recipes.

Okay.

So they DM you and you send them the recipes.

And then grannymagic.com is that information there as well on the website, or are you just doing it through Instagram?

I don't have it posted, actually on my website, but I have it on my social media and even in my shop if they send me a message through chat.

Okay, okay, that's great.

So, yeah, I know people are going to want to do that.

I really think this year is the year to do that.

And when we're setting our intentions this year, one of the things that's really, really helpful is to think in terms of cleansing.

And so an easy thing to do is to take a bowl of water and just put a little salt in there.

And then if you have a little.

A little sprig of rosemary or cedar or something evergreen.

And as you write what you want to release, you know, really it's about focusing the energy and the intention.

And if you have a red pen, it helps to write it in red ink.

Right.

That's the message of stop.

And you can fold that up and release it, Put it into the water, and then take your little sprig into the cleansing water and just say, I cleanse this space.

I free myself from anything holding me back.

2025 is my year, a year of transformation.

I think it's.

A lot of people don't like to adapt.

They'll try and force an agenda or run an agenda.

If there's a relationship that doesn't work out for them, it's not working out for them.

The other person doesn't want to be in the relationship anymore.

If you try and fight to keep that relationship, it will not serve your.

Your highest and good.

So, oh, it'll be a year of trauma.

Yeah.

A one year.

A one year, yes.

Well, you know, I pulled the tarot cards real quick, and the Tarot card for this 20, 25 is the hermit card.

And so it really is about being comfortable with being alone, looking out for your own authenticity, your own, you know, best self interest, your own spiritual transformation, and having the courage to move forward with that.

Even a belief in oneself where you don't need other people to validate who you are or your importance or your.

You're capable of, you know, doing the great things that you want to do.

You don't need other people cheerleading you on in order to accomplish that.

So the hermit cards really.

Be secure in yourself.

Yes.

Okay.

Self authenticity and alignment.

Because the real secret is to be in alignment with your purpose and the universe's path for you.

And that's what magic's all about.

It's aligning with that energy for your higher self.

Yeah.

I find a lot of my clients right now, the whole year has been people wanting to know about career relationships.

A lot of people having out relationships outside of marriages that I've been counseling and trying to find that balance where I'm like, you need to pull the trigger on this.

It's time, you know, set them free.

Let them find somebody that will love.

Them, you know, and do what you need to do.

Well, the other cards, nines are, it's interesting, the.

The wounded healer, I call it the nine of wands.

And that, that's all about stepping forward, but protecting yourself.

You notice he's protecting himself.

He's got the wands in the back, but he's fearlessly facing forward.

He's ready to move on.

He's ready to heal.

So it's like healing old wounds.

Don't overthink it, you know, don't overthink it.

You know what to do in your gut, your intuitive wisdom, let the universe lead you forward.

You know, it's time to stop procrastinating.

It just ties your energy and knots.

And then the other one is this nine of pentacles, which, you know, she's alone, but you'll notice it's a very sensual card.

You know, she's happy.

Yeah.

Indulging ourselves a little bit, not being afraid to enjoy.

There's nothing wrong with pleasure and enjoying the things that this life has to offer us.

And I think self care is going to be important for us this year as we go through all of this.

And then this speaks to what you and I see in our readings a lot with clients.

The nine of Cups, you Know what gets great about who you want in your life?

Who are you inviting into that feast?

You have all that to offer.

All those cups are emotions, all the good things in your life.

You have so much to offer, but you're the host.

You decide who you invite in and who doesn't belong.

I like.

And so I.

The nine cards are always challenging in a reading, and this being a nine year, you know, but I think even when we give people a reading, there's a certain amount of denial sometimes about moving forward.

There's a lot of.

I was happy to do.

Was happy to do a reading yesterday and I.

I got the first name of the boyfriend and was pulling impressions and writing the impressions.

I was getting connected to him.

And it was one of those times where I'm like, he wants to buy a house, he wants to settle down.

He's looking at marriage.

And she was like, you know?

And it just felt good to be able to tell somebody that, because I've been dealing with this whole year of people leaving relationships, friends being seen for who they truly are and not really being friends at all and then leaving.

I just want people out there knowing that if they feel like the bottom, the floors dropped out from under them.

This is the energy right now.

The universe tried to give us hints over the years that certain things didn't serve us.

And for the people who didn't act on it or didn't intuitive pick up on that energy, they're being forced out of the situation that they're in by the universe.

And when you're forced, it feels a little bit more unsettling, but it's okay.

But recognize it and don't see it as another challenge or fight where you need to fight against the universe, because that doesn't usually work out well for.

People, especially this year.

This year, really, this is a year to ground yourself and to go with that flow.

What the universe has in mind for you is so much better than what you're clinging to.

But I think you're right.

Especially in relationships, people do want to cling, right?

Right.

Well, they're afraid of being alone.

People are more afraid of being alone than most anything else I ever see.

It's the having to look at themselves in the mirror and not have a distraction of being able to focus on that other person and trying to fix their life or focus on them, but you're forced to focus on yourself.

And I think that's why people are afraid to be alone.

You should never be afraid to be alone.

You make your friends your Family, maybe you get a cool pet that, you know, you get to enjoy their company, redecorate your home, get a new job, write a book, do something that is coming from within you and let the energy flow back into you rather than you giving it out to everyone else around you.

Oh, agreed, agreed.

And I think that process of transformation, when you open up to it, the universe really need you.

Sometimes we need to go deep.

And so one of the things I have in the shop this year is, I just got in, are some shadow work journals.

I've been waiting.

People have been asking for them, and I waited until I found some that I really liked.

And so I have those.

You know, looking at things in your past, what might be holding you back.

You know, exploring those things and doing a lot of meditation.

So those books walk people through the steps of what you need to do to let go of sort of the gray areas in your life.

Is that right?

I'm sorry, you went out on me for just a minute.

Yeah.

It's been going in and out the entire time we've been recording, so I guess repeat.

So the book that you speak of on shadow work walks you through the steps of what it takes to remove the gray areas from your life.

Things of the past, wounds tied to the past, old relationship and baggage.

It walks you through it very much.

It walks you through it.

It has meditation exercises, spaces even to draw questions.

I looked through it and it's one of the best ones that I have found because it has different modalities to it.

But I think being open to really like you're saying, look at yourself.

We can only change ourselves.

Yeah.

And once we.

In alignment with our authenticity and we can really answer what the universe has and is calling us to, we attract to us the right people.

We attract to us like energy.

So what you're putting out into the universe are the same energies you're going to receive back.

So people need to understand that if you make zero effort to know people, you lack loyalty.

You're not there for friends, for things that are important to them, but you expect them to be there when it's important to you.

Then you're half a person, you're not functioning, and you're not going to draw in People who you want in your life because you're not actually being the kind of person you think you are or being the kind of person that you'd like to be.

And you'll draw in many gifts and people that are like energy, like the energy you want to be.

So raise your vibration.

Exactly, exactly.

And, you know, to be that authentic, even if, you know, I think of the.

I love this card, the courage of the wounded healer, in a sense.

But if the person.

So they'll be presented the opportunity to be courageous and to heal their wounds, but if they don't embrace that part of themselves, then they don't move forward.

So I love that the cards are showing us what energy is there for us, where the focus should be.

But people, we have to do the work ourselves.

It's not going to fix it for you.

We have to be a work in progress at all times.

Yeah, Very, very much.

And even the grounding, you know, the grounding tools, the crystals, you know, the hematite I find.

Isn't obsidian like.

Hematite, like that very black stone that grounds you.

I.

I like those.

You.

Obsidian actually is like a shield against negative energy.

Well, see, I went right for obsidian.

That's what.

That's what I have.

I wanted the shield.

I wanted the full enchilada, like, and.

Then smokey quartz is really good for transitions.

It's also good for spiritual protection, I found because I took a smoky quartz and I wore the ring into a nail salon, which I'm normally.

It's kind of annoying to go to the salon now.

You know, people have a toddler on their knee.

It's like, it's a salon.

Have your sister watch them.

It's not relaxing.

It's not relaxing.

And I wore this ring one day just to test it out.

And it was the most peaceful experience I've ever had in a salon.

So I will be continuing that obsessed.

Looking for is wonderful.

Yes.

You know, and the surprising ones that give you, though, the confidence and the energy for this year.

Like, one of my favorites, Tiger's eye.

You know, that it gives you that.

It's protective.

But it also confident success.

And then bloodstone, that vitality, that strength.

The crystals will help.

You know, the grounding baths will help.

The grounding oil will help.

But you're the one that has to be open to the energies.

Right, Right.

And being able to move forward, they just calm you down a little bit and put you in a place where you can make those.

They help you to adjust your energy forward.

Mm, yeah.

So happy to adjust their energy.

They're wonderful.

I think it's gonna be a really interesting year for people.

I'm excited when I think of the snake and the wood snake, that imagery of shedding that skin, you know, and snakes are supposedly full of wisdom in Chinese culture.

And venom.

Yeah, yeah.

They are protective, you know, and I think there are times we need to protect ourselves and not feel guilty.

Especially this year, you know, say no when you need to say no.

And I.

I just want to say to people, the stones that you.

The crystals that you just named are not expensive stones.

They're not expensive crystals.

If there's somebody you love that has a birthday coming up or just.

It's a nice thing to do, get them one of these stones that will help them through these times and put it on a pendant.

That's why I wear the redstone that I wear.

It's supposed to open my heart up, and that helps me to process emotion and empathy.

So it's such a great gift to give, especially to a Capricorn for those Capricorn birthdays, as we're in Capricorn season, because it's of the Earth, they would love it.

So do you know, do you have a crystal site that you frequent or that you like and trust, or do you have them on your site?

Well, these crystals I have on my site.

Great.

These are common.

There are a lot of crystal shops online also.

I prefer my shop.

And to go in person, I do think you need to be a little bit careful when you crystal shop.

I think going in person, you really feel the energy, and sometimes you just feel drawn to a particular crystal.

And if you ask about the meaning and the energy, suddenly you understand why, right?

No, I totally agree.

You could tell by the feeling of the.

The crystal itself.

So when people are setting intentions, what can young people do?

Get getting ready for the brand new year?

Because I.

I believe in incorporating some of these methods with your children to shield them, to help them process energy, and to learn that at a young age so as they get older, they don't feel so cast out into the world and without protection, but rather they know the things that they can do to center themselves.

Well, you know, one of the things that I.

I've done with my grandchildren is setting intentions for the new year.

And we.

We do a little ritual and we focus.

You know, we light the candle, we meditate on the energy.

We kind of raise the energy in the candle from the flame.

And I have them write down what their intentions were for the new year.

And then we went outside and we planted what at the time was a little rosemary bush.

And then since then, we've planted little pine trees.

And usually it's some kind of an evergreen that's going to be hardy.

And then they love it, especially the rosemary, because it's right by my front door.

And so every time they come, they see that thing is like 5ft off the ground.

Now it's this enormous upright rosemary bush.

Do you have any tips for us mediums that kill things?

We don't mean to, but we have a black thumb.

I've killed more rosemary bushes by my front door.

What do we do?

We have to become a friend with a hedge witch or something?

Because I cannot keep any plant alive.

Rosemary is one of the easiest.

That's why I always recommend it.

But I think people over water rosemary, okay.

Because rosemary actually is a Mediterranean plant, and it grows best in sort of sandy soil.

It needs a lot of drainage.

And so that's one of the reasons it does well for me.

So it's not good by our door.

In a pot.

In a pot.

Dan over waters it.

I can't keep the log only in the ground.

Okay.

That makes me feel better.

He babies them.

He over waters them.

But that's, I think, rosemary.

The trick is it thrives on neglect.

Oh, oh.

And so what right now?

And I'm going to do a little video on it, too.

Someone asked me to do it.

I'm rooting rosemary and I'm going to plant more because it just does so well here, and I use it.

Rosemary is a universal herb.

You can substitute it for any other herb in a working.

It's kind of amazing.

Its energy is such.

It can be protective.

It can bring in prosperity.

It can.

It's just this very vibrant energy.

And so they say it's a universal herb that substitutes for any other herb.

Okay, that's good to know.

So that's why it's great.

You have to almost grow it like a cactus or a succulent.

Well, I live in Arizona, so I know so.

But it might be so hot where you are.

Well, I have it in the Shade by my front door.

Because I know you're supposed to keep rosemary outside your front door for protection and to shield yourself from negative energies and dark energies.

So I'm a big fan of rosemary and it tastes amazing.

Obviously, during the holidays, if you incorporate it into your food and your cooking, can it work still in that same way?

Exactly.

That's kitchen witchery.

It's exactly the same.

Okay.

But you know, things, planting the things in your yard.

I do have my rosemary.

And then a very wise woman told me, you need to have rue out there.

And she brought me cuttings of rue.

And root acts similarly.

And it's also.

It requires very little water.

And so I have rubbishes out there.

And then, of course, my.

My famous wormwood.

I can't live without my wormwood.

And my son was house sitting and he said, do you know when you water the front yard, your yard smells so good?

You know, he just loved.

You know, when you water, you get everything.

You can just smell it.

And it was interesting because a couple of my root died, and the lady who gave them to me, she said they took a hit for you.

Said they're so protective, they will die to absorb that negative energy.

Yeah.

And putting more roux out front, she said, you need to replace your roux.

So I'm working on that.

I'm, you know, I'm rooting rue.

Is that.

Is that rue?

Rue.

And it's one of the most protective herbs.

It's very traditional.

When I met her, we were at a psychic fair and we were talking protection, and I kind of laughed and I reached in my pocket and I pulled out my rosemary that I had a sprig of fresh rosemary in my pocket.

And then she laughs in her pocket and pulled out some rue.

It was so funny.

Then I pulled out my necklace.

She pulled out her necklace.

We looked at each other, and it turns out we were born on the same day.

Wow.

Meant to be the same year.

And we have the same number of children, two boys and two girls.

It was just one of those kismet moments.

Right.

Wow.

And she's from a different tradition.

A different tradition.

So she was teaching me what she knew and I was sharing with her what I knew.

So that's how I learned to use rue.

And rue is really potent.

You need to be careful if you work with rue because it does have a substance, you know, when you pick it and it's green and it can irritate your skin.

So she's like, I'll see your rosemary and I'll raise you some roux.

Oh my God.

You know what?

Exactly.

She was so sweet.

She looked at my rosemary and it was like, because she came over, we did some work together and it was like, I don't know about that.

You know, that's funny.

Yeah.

The Hispanic tradition is very rich in California with the healers and then the much.

Yeah, yeah.

You have to be careful.

You have to be careful of that though.

They tread on the dark sometimes because they're like Afro Cuban roots in how they practice.

I, I, I do know that I, you know, but it's, it was an interest.

It's an interesting experience.

It is true.

She, she does tend more towards a kind of a controlling kind of a magic.

Yes.

Or I what we do a little more voodoo.

It's a little more voodoo and sometimes animal rituals are involved.

So it's just like, it's a little.

Cow tongue and cow tongues run into money.

I think I'm going to avoid the cow tongue just the same.

But I think what we do, rather than try to change other people, I think the beauty of our approach is we change ourselves and that's what we really can do.

I was saying that more for the listeners.

So they know if they go to somebody that practices more in Santeria, it's going to have a darker tone than say what you do.

That's more of white light and, and more of herbology in that sense.

And it's not that they don't believe in it, it's just they have all these other things that involve chickens and such that can be done.

They're a little bit more into the curses, I'd say.

Well, I think though, there's a lot more and I think it's possible to over protect and over try to over control your surroundings.

Yeah, no, I, I would agree with that.

And I want you to say down the drain away from me three times and we'll pull the cord or the plug.

And it will leave your presence and your space.

And to show them how to do this so they feel like they have a little bit of power in their life and they don't feel so vulnerable that they do have a way to be able to get rid of things that bother them.

So they don't keep it bottled up and hurt themselves.

By collecting moments that injure their soul, they're able to send it away from them.

So I just wanted to say that I don't think there's an age that's too young to do visualization techniques like that in letting go of things that bother you or hurt you.

Do you have an opinion on age for doing an intention setting here?

I honestly think as young as 5 or 6 years old.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's.

It.

It gives.

Go ahead.

I just wrote a crystal book for children that's on my site.

Oh, and there's a book that you can download.

I think it's $3.

And then you can actually order it.

And it comes with the stones in the book.

And I like it because it's.

It doesn't just tell you about the stones.

It talks to them about how you can use crystals.

And then it has like rose quartz for making new friends.

And it tells them how to visualize and meditate and hold the stone.

And I'm trying to remember what other ones it has but.

And it does have something for protection in there too.

Watch out for the animal lover children.

They figure out what stone to hold and they're like I want a puppy.

And like your house is full of pets.

Because they set their intentions on animals the whole time.

I love it.

Are the ones that attract all these cats.

But the book is really helpful.

I think I've gotten good feedback from people who have bought it.

I've sold a bunch of copies right before the holidays and then I've used it with my.

And then one of the ones I don't talk about much.

Little Layla up in the Bay Area and she just loves working with crystals and that she.

But she kept saying what do I do with them?

You know.

And so that book really got her started.

So I think if you're interested and someone in another country said, well, can you make it into an ebook so I can just download it?

But it's really nice if you order the book with the crystal set.

And then I always put a surprise crystal in there too.

Oh, I love that.

Do with it.

When you order from my site whenever possible, if you buy a crystal or an herb, I try to send.

I now have informative papers to help.

You know, various ways to, to use that.

I love that.

That's great.

But children are just so open.

So are you seeing.

Can adults order your little crystal book?

Will it help us to learn about crystals as well?

Yes, it will.

My.

My son's wife, the heart, she said, I need this too, you know, because she's just getting interested through me and through the children.

And it's, it's helpful for everybody because you, you not only get the stones, but it, it really has.

I call them in their little spells.

Yeah.

That you can use.

And they're very simple.

And like you said, I try to offer crystals that aren't expensive.

They're fairly common.

If a crystal is expensive, that doesn't mean that it has more energy or special powers.

Right.

What does Moldavite do?

Moldavite moves all the blocks out of your way.

Moldavite bulldozes you through.

In fact, for some reason, maybe because I'm in Aries, I'm a little addicted to Moldavite.

Other people find it's too much energy for them and it's kind of humorous.

And they say I can't even wear it before bedtime.

And I'm thinking, geez, I can sleep with Moldavite on.

Moldavite necklace and a couple of rings on.

But Moldavite really blows through those blockages.

It's a very high vibration because Moldavite is an asteroid or a meteorite that crashed in Czechoslovakia.

And it's actually not a crystal.

It's called a techie.

It's like glass, and it formed this molten glass.

And so it's got this very high vibrational energy to it.

Do you have jewelry on your website or do you just have the crystals?

I have a lot of jewelry on my website.

Most people like working with crystals in the form of jewelry.

And like you're saying it as a gift.

Well, and yeah, and I, I.

And I love the bracelets because they're up against your skin, the stone up against your actual skin.

But yeah, and a lot of the spells, I actually have listed some too, where you can attach attentions to a crystal, you know, set your intention, create a talisman to draw something towards you.

Yeah.

And I actually put little spells up.

If somebody wants that, I can tell them how to do that as well.

Don't you have like a car protection spell in crystal or something on your website?

I think that's so cool.

I hear the girl.

I.

I hear your girls have them.

Yes.

You sent them for the girls.

Either you sent them or I bought them.

I don't know which because it was a while ago.

Said she had one in her car.

Yes, and for their protection and God knows Aurora needs it.

So what was the we should say other one.

I know, yeah.

She would need a car made out of whatever stone that is.

She learned to drive in LA and it's not good.

Oh my.

Well, she could be a good driver then.

She's had the practice.

Yeah.

I'll tell you that story another time as to why she's such a terrible driver.

Be careful of which instructor you hire to teach your child to drive.

Well, you know what, those things are popular sometimes people don't want to buy all the different herbs and mix them.

Yeah, you send them off to your kid like with your kid when they go to college.

You can get the little car set.

And they use dragon's blood and I include the dragon's blood little incense stick with it.

I didn't.

I have.

I'll put those up on my site.

I put them, sent them out in people who Christmas stockings this year.

Those were in their Christmas stockings that I made this year for what a fabulous stocking.

I love that.

Oh my gosh.

Some of our dead university students ordered those stockings.

Good, good.

That's fantastic.

Now I'll put those spell kits up separately on the site and so if people are interested, those spell kits with the dragon's blood, those would be excellent too for setting intentions and you know, children really enjoy lighting just, just, just.

For, for the new, for the new viewers and listeners.

Dragon's blood is like sage on steroids for, for cleansing bad energy, negative energy.

Go ahead.

So transformative.

It is just so transformative.

But children like lighting things as part of what they do.

Uh huh.

And so those would even be good for a child.

So for people in this nine year, which is a year of endings, I would say after the person moves out or just moves out of your life, smudge your house, sage it and then burn sweet grass.

You know, set your intentions.

That's you've got to clear the old energy out of your environment, out of your space and get them, get it out the Door.

And isn't there an Irish ritual where you leave the front door and the back door open so the bad energy can move out and the new energy can enter?

Yes.

There's a variety of different traditions with doors and windows.

Yeah, you know, I don't do that, you know, because I.

I think the energy travels, but it symbolically.

Oh, so you're sending it to your neighbor.

So you're.

You open the door and the window.

All of it is embodying in action.

Because I think people want to do energy work just in their heads, you know, and say it loud, say it proud.

Get out of your head.

Put it out.

Thank you.

And someone.

Someone was demeaning what they called folk magic.

This published author, and it was really interesting because I thought, she's making energy work.

So intellectualized.

And the truth is we have this bounty of crystals and herbs and all these energies around us.

We're children of the earth.

And by actually taking action and embodying that intention makes it that much more powerful.

And does she really want to piss off a bunch of witches?

I mean, that's kind of dumb.

I'm just saying.

I was just like, you know, each their own.

To each their own.

I.

I kind of got what she was saying.

I think there's a belief, like with bay leaves, a lot of people for 20, 25 or a new year will write what they want to manifest on a bay leaf, and they will simply burn the bay leaf and, you know, doing it without setting and visualizing a real intention.

Right.

Which is nothing.

And.

And it's true.

I got what she was saying.

People come to me all the time.

I burned a bay leaf.

I asked for a million dollars.

I didn't get it.

The amount of people that want to set intentions for.

To win the lottery, it's like, just stop.

Just stop.

You're supposed to have a vision that you put energy in to create something in this new in that's new in the world.

And these properties will help you manifest those intentions that you set in your vision.

Your new business or, you know, the home that you want to attract or love into your life or friendships into your life.

Things that are.

That you can put energy in and be a.

In the pro.

Part of the process.

Not lottery.

I put that on my website for my money potion.

I'm like, this will not work for you.

For the lottery specifically, I'm like, that's a game of chance.

There's no energy to connect to.

It's not the same as setting an intention to something that you're putting your energy into to give it life.

It's just not the same.

Oh, I love what you said.

There's nothing for your energy to attach to in this, and that's one of the big reasons we take the actions.

Right, Exactly.

So I.

With that energy of prosperity and abundance as we drink your.

Oh, my gosh, your delicious vodka.

So good.

People can't even imagine a vodka being a tasting vodka, but this is a tasting vodka.

When you come out, we'll have to get.

Hook you up with a bottle of Divination 22 to drive back with you.

For sure.

I got a little taste of it at Sedona summer camp, and we can't order it, unfortunately, you were the first.

People to try it.

Well, unfortunately, the big companies have a monopoly on the online ordering, so we can't sell it that way.

They keep control of that.

I've learned so much about the liquor industry.

It's.

It's at One Handsome Bastard in Old Town Scottsdale, which is my distillery, but it's also a restaurant bar run by Trish and her daughter Bren.

So I was attracted to that place by the name of it and the energy of it.

And then it just turned out that a mom and her daughter run it and do the distilling, which I loved.

And so they've got all my big crystals in the room around the vats of vodka as they sort of marinate with the herbs and the properties that I put in them, the ingredients, and.

And so they sit with the crystals.

It amplifies them.

And then I bless it, and then it's bottled and sent.

Sent out to the bars.

So that's kind of where we're at right now.

It's very exciting, though.

Anything like it before, I'm the first.

I'm pretty excited about it.

Thank you.

It's worth.

Arizona people.

Yes, I know.

They're so lucky.

It's right here, and they've been buying a lot of it.

So it's a lot of.

A lot of people popping into one handsome bastard.

But I've got the money potion and I have the love potion, and I'm working on the resurrection potion, but the FDA doesn't approve things like chrysanthemums.

And I'm like, okay, I can have chrysanthemum tea, but not chrysanthemum that's dried.

So I don't get it that.

I don't understand that.

I don't either.

So it's.

It's.

I'm struggling with the resurrection Vodka to Help thin the veil so you can communicate with your deceased loved ones.

But that'll be the third one, but I got the first two out.

Of manifesting my vision.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Wonderful.

I'm so happy, though, that available.

I can't wait to get bottle or my own bottle.

I had to share.

Like, there was two bottles, and I think we all shared just a little taste.

You guys were my.

My little guinea pigs that night, and I just needed your feedback.

So you were my focus group to see how the flavor would be received, and I really appreciated that.

So you and my.

Bottles, though, right?

I know you guys had a real good time.

Yeah, that was fun.

So where can people find more information about you, your or book an appointment for a tarot reading with you?

Oh, that would be great.

Yes, I think so, too.

And you also can help them with intention.

Intention setting, or even spells.

I had a friend that went to you for a spell for a co worker, and that co worker left permanently the next day from the company.

So you definitely know what you're doing.

And my friend was thrilled.

Out light.

We're just beaming out light.

So if people might need you to help them to set their intentions, they can go to grannymagic.com to.

To get a hold of you and.

Or they can find you at Instagram at Granny Magic.

Margaret Jamison.

Yes.

Okay, so.

And I follow you and look for the blue check.

I.

I now have a blue check because it was so confusing for people.

Yes, me too, Actually, on principle, I wouldn't buy it because I'm like, I've written six books.

I have a television show.

You guys are bs.

Like, it was so ridiculous.

And then I was sitting in my office one day and I got a ding on my phone, and it said, you know, basically, you've been approved and you're verified.

And I went, Sophia.

Like that.

And she was like, yeah, Mom.

I was like, did you pay to verify me?

And she said, yeah.

She's like, please don't kill me.

I was.

She's like, people just were having trouble.

Everybody in North America, I think, yeah.

And now everybody has to pay for the blue check mark, even if you were verified beforehand.

I haven't had that on my Facebook fan page, though.

I'm verified on it, but I.

I don't have to pay for it there or on Twitter, which is now X.

I think maybe I do on X.

Do I have I'll have to look into that.

I don't go on there that much.

I didn't go.

I didn't go on there much when it was Twitter.

It's just so hard to juggle all the social media sites.

I just do Facebook and Insta, and for me, that's all I can handle.

Isn't it funny how different the tone is between people on Facebook and people on Instagram?

Oh, my gosh.

It's night and day, isn't it?

Like, the people.

People on Instagram are a little bit more bubbly and lively and on Facebook, a little bit more.

More negative Nelly about things.

And I'm just like.

I'm like.

It's just a post.

Okay, well, a subscribers group on Instagram and I have a subscribers group now on Facebook.

Those groups are like night and day.

Yeah, I bet they are.

I mean, it's fascinating.

And then someone left one group to go to the Instagram group.

I'm sure.

No, I get it.

I totally get that.

So, so do you.

Do you share tips with them when they subscribe to you for that you.

You interact?

We do.

We.

We have a live chat channel where we all communicate with each other similar to the dead university students.

And then we have.

I do special videos for them and give them different kinds of feedback.

And then every month they get some kind of a feedback freebie or a major discount from my shop.

I love that.

I love that.

So go to Instagram and subscribe.

And it's $5 a month.

That's great.

Some of the dead university students are on there.

Other people as well.

So it's a lively little group.

My students love you players.

Right now.

Developing the Claires.

What are the different Claires?

Okay.

Getting people excited about that.

Good.

I do rituals for them where if sometimes it gives people a little more confidence to see someone actually perform a ritual.

Yes.

Yeah.

And then some actually watch it and perform along with me, you know, because then they feel they've got somebody there.

And we're working our way up to possibly doing some live moon rituals together.

Cool.

I love that idea.

We've got the new moon in Capricorn coming up.

My little coven.

I have my little coven on Instagram.

My little subscriber.

I love that.

Well, they're lucky to have you.

Come back anytime.

And Happy New Year.

Always a pleasure.

Happy New Year.

Thank you, family too.

Thank you.

And happy New Year to my listeners.

Thank you for tuning in.

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