Influencer Ashley Jones practiced witchcraft — spells and all — for almost a decade.
“Zodiac indicators was the primary one as a result of it was so extensively accepted by everybody,” Jones, 27, mentioned on the Monday, September 8, episode of Madi Prewett’s “Keep True” podcast. “I imply, everybody is aware of their zodiac signal. I grew up within the ‘90s with, like, Capricorn shirts and that simply was so extensively accepted.”
In keeping with Jones, she mentioned that she “purchased into” the premise of zodiac indicators after believing that her personal horoscope was “so correct.”
“That was undoubtedly the opening door for me,” Jones mentioned, agreeing with Prewett, 29, that zodiac indicators and enneagram persona sorts are “demonic.”
After diving into horoscopes, Jones began wanting into start charts and moon phases whereas on her internal journey of “discovering out extra of who [she] was.”
“I [was] venturing into the ‘harmless issues,’ like crystals and manifestation and the legislation of attraction,” Jones recalled. “It so rapidly began to enthrall me in a manner the place I used to be, like, ‘Why does nobody discuss how actual that is?’ … I used to be getting so enamored with the facility that was in that stuff.”
Jones’ grandmother, who was additionally very religious and self-identified as a “good witch,” ultimately offered the influencer along with her personal guide of spells.
“She gave me my first spell guide once I was 15, and it mentioned, ‘Good Spells and Fortunes’ on it,” Jones mentioned. “Even the guide mentioned, ‘good mild,’ [which] is simply lined in deceit. I took it residence, and I used to be, like, ‘Nice.’ The primary spell I keep in mind ever doing was a cash spell on a full moon.”
By the point Jones was 23, she had an epiphany about her spirituality.
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“I’m manifesting my dream life, driving a luxurious automobile, flying each different week, going to those loopy areas [and] have a lot cash, greater than I do know what to do with,” she mentioned. “I’ve a unique boyfriend [before I met my now-husband]. We’re dwelling collectively, have a pleasant home. Something and every little thing that the world would suppose results in happiness, I had it.”
Regardless of her worldly possessions, Jones felt extremely depressed and anxious.
“I used to be, like, ‘I don’t wish to be right here anymore. I don’t know get out of this,’” Jones recalled. “I simply felt, like, I used to be going to try to pray one time. … I imply, [up until this point], I used to be seeing and listening to stuff each single day, seeing demons, listening to them. I didn’t know what was actual and what wasn’t.”
Jones, who grew up working towards Christianity, prayed for the primary time whereas driving residence.
“I mentioned, ‘God, there’s no manner you’re actual as a result of when you have been actual and when you truly cherished me just like the church advised me you probably did, my life wouldn’t look this manner,’” she advised Prewett. “I mentioned, ‘In the event you’re actual, show it.’ And this truck pulled out in entrance of me. … I needed to slam on my brakes and there was a trailer behind this truck with in all probability a 20-foot wood cross on it. I used to be like, ‘I’ll actually by no means ask that once more.’”
When Jones returned residence, she prayed once more, this day trip loud.
“I used to be on the ground, sobbing. All I may say was, ‘Please assist me,’” she mentioned. “I used to be begging time and again. … It was probably the most determined I’d ever been in my life. It was in all probability, like, 20 minutes of that, and swiftly it simply felt, like, bodily [I got] a hug round me.”
