So much witchcraft to learn – and reject wholeheartedly – from Hollywood movies! Jenny and Trai revisit three of their favorite rites of passage witch movies: The Craft (the original), Witches of Eastwick, and Eve’s Bayou. What do these movies get spookily right about witchcraft and what ends up patriarchal propaganda? The Light in the Fog hosts go full fangirl, dishing the stories, the themes, and the magic.

Spoilers for all these movies!

Both Light in the Fog hosts have mental illnesses, but it behaves quite differently, as Jenny explains in the Tides of Bipolar. Jenny is medicine-resistant, type 2 BiPolar, and it’s all about the cycles. Not the moon or seasonal cycles – or at least not in the way you think. Jenny brings the research that explains the circadian pacemaker running the bi-polar show!! Prepare to have your mind blown! Meanwhile, Trai’s PTSD is more of a pattern – triggered more by random emotional shrapnel than a calendar, and we explore that stuff, too.

For lucky episode 13, we have an intense episode that deconstructs where our patterns and programming of behavior and coping originated – was it our parents? Their parents? Society in general? Capitalism? Our biochemical make up? Past lives? All of it?? Jenny and Trai discuss how we learned to recognize being activated, how to create space around it, and the beginnings of how to heal. The answer might just be roller coasters.

Ollie’s full of ghosts! Jenny’s friend explains how it all got started with a terrifying middle school encounter with a presence that never went away. They only got closer! And then came the time gapping and returning quite different – new friends, weight loss, and other inexplicable changes that Ollie didn’t make.Time for some rules! Come learn how Ollie’s learned to live with they call the followers.We are putting a TRIGGER WARNING on this episode for SI and violent content.

Depression is one of the trickiest and most universal subject matters in these modern times. It’s been a major part of both Trai and Jenny’s lives, as well as the lives of our families and friends. In this episode, we speak frankly about how it’s affected our time on this plane of existence and what we hope for our futures, despite being wired for despair. Added points for the look at the generational impacts and approaches to melancholy management. This episode is just our recordings and will not have any video on Youtube.

Ever wanted to jump into magic practice but are unsure where to start? Welcome to this special episode where I lay out the witchcraft basics I’ve learned over my three years of hatch witchery. A simple, easy guide of a few basic things that can apply to all beginner witches, wizards and all sorts of magical beings. So sit back, and get ready to listen because class is in session.

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In part 1 of our interview with Melissa Koons, she left us at a cliffhanger – an angry ghost who was physically accosting her! This encounter taught her to set psychic boundaries. Mentors arrived, and Death moved into her closet, so she knew that a central purpose would center around helping people grieve those passing over. Mel shares her insight into synchronicities, flow, timeline shifts, failure, trust with her guides, where guides come from, and how a 9 to 5 can be helpful

Melissa Koons is a writer, business owner, and has a passion for supporting others on their healing journey through her coaching and psychic work. Melissa works as a communications professional, tutor, relationship coach, grief coach/death doula, tarot reader, and is an ordained minister. When she's not working, she's taking care of her cats and turtles, and exploring the adventures of life. www.magnificentmusings.com

Our very first guest, and a very special one she is: Melissa Koons, psychic medium, friend of the faefolk, death doula, and catalyst reader who will change your life! In part one of a two part conversation, Mel explains how a group of magical pagans gave her her first community in the least expected place, and learned how to work with, make space for, and hold her own space for ghosts, fae, fairyfolk, and demon dogs. www.magnificentmusings.com