Ex-Astrologer Abandons Witchcraft and New Age: Tailah Scroggins has spoken out on her journey to defeating evil and demonic powers. She said that experienced internal death was just existing.
Raised in a Christian household, Scroggins somehow found herself drawn to the occult, embracing astrology, witchcraft, and the New Age.
However, after setting out on a dark path and losing hope for survival, she had a life-altering encounter with Jesus that left her speechless.
Scroggins is now a truth-teller, writer, and online evangelist on a mission to help others avoid evil. She recently told her story to “Billy Hallowell’s Playing With Fire Podcast,” explaining how she was raised in a Christian home and believed in God before becoming involved with the occult.
She said she was first introduced to the New Age in high school when a family member she trusted told her about astrology.
“They had this big … textbook of everything astrology, and they were like, ‘This describes my personality so perfectly — look what it says about you,’” Scroggins said. “I was caught off-guard, and I remember … I was like, ‘But how can this be true? If God created all of us and he made our personalities, how can a planet dictate my future or dictate my personality?’”
She claimed that this was the first “seed of deception” planted by the devil in her life, and her perspective began to shift. With a family friend telling her that God created astrology as a system “He put in order,” she embarked on what she now considers to be a dangerous path.
“They provided me some explanation that was totally false, but I didn’t know the word of God enough,” Scroggins said. “I knew a lot about God, but I didn’t know … what the Bible said about the occult — about the darkness, about the battle. I just knew the good things, and so I became an astrologer.”
Scroggins was as an astrologer for 11 years, describing it as her “worldview” and “life.”
Nonetheless, she went to church and held onto some Christian beliefs. She described the experience as exposing her to “so much deception and confusion” as she lived her life as a “lukewarm Christian” plagued by her occultic practices.
Scroggins said she was disappointed in God as she started college, feeling frustrated that He hadn’t answered her wants and whims on her timetable.
“It’s spiritual immaturity,” she said of her perspective at the time. We don’t trust God’s timing, and so I’m young, I’m 18 at this time, and I’m mad — I’m mad that God didn’t open the door that I wanted Him to open, and that’s just kind of part of being a baby Christian.”
Her spiritual immaturity also led her to participate in the party. Scroggins claimed that “the enemy lied” and that she “took his bait” and began down a negative path, getting drunk every weekend.
“The more I rebelled and lived in this party lifestyle, the more I craved astrology, the witchcraft, the divination, and all of that,” Scroggins said. “It was like this hunger exploded … it was like this black hole … I needed to be consuming it.”
According to Scroggins, depression soon took hold and suicidal thoughts reigned. She would find herself crying for two hours every day for no reason, as she grappled with the emptiness left by the abandonment of her relationship with the Lord.
A family member who was aware of her situation intervened, and the experience brought Scroggins true healing. The woman dropped by Scroggins’ house one day and spoke openly with the then-college student.
“She just looked at me one day, and she said, ‘Today is the day of your freedom,’ and I said, ‘OK, I don’t know what that means, but I have no will to live,’” Scroggins recalled. “I hadn’t attempted to do anything or take my life, but I was dead inside. And so I was like, ‘You can pray and do whatever you want to me because there’s nowhere else for me to go. I’m already at rock bottom,’ and so she prayed for me.”
Those invocations, which Scroggins described as “deliverance prayers,” had a profound impact. Scroggins said they “cast every spirit of death and depression out,” and she immediately felt “huge weights being lifted off.”
She now believes the entire experience was “supernatural,” leading her to a fruitful and meaningful relationship with Christ.
“The depression never came back, the suicidal thoughts never came back — ever,” she said. “It’s been over six years. I was delivered.”
Scroggins continued, “God completely healed me, set me free.”
Over time, she abandoned her occultic practices and clung close to Jesus. A few years later, though, she found herself alarmed by how many others were being enraptured by the same world she had escaped.
Scroggins said she was shocked during COVID-19 to see how interest in witchcraft, Tarot cards, crystals, and the occult exploded online.
“It grieved me because that was my story,” she said. “I was into New Age. I was into the false spirituality in witchcraft.”
Realizing she had been “set free … by Jesus,” she decided to counter occultic videos getting millions of views with content of her own that would instead point people toward Jesus.
“I was like, ‘I’m gonna share my testimony, and I’m going to expose astrology. I’m going to expose the New Age, I’m going to expose all of it,’” she said. “And I just started telling people what I went through and what God saved me from. And what came into my life when I started doing those practices — and it was all evil.”