Jenn Nizza has some strong feelings about Halloween. The former professional psychic spent decades of her life on the New Age “hamster wheel” as she describes it, always looking for fulfillment, but never finding it. When her dabbling in divination took a dark turn, she somehow knew only Jesus could help her escape and reclaim her life.
Now, Ms. Nizza is on a mission to expose the dangers of the New Age and the occult. She recently sat down with The Washington Times Higher Ground to talk about her experiences and the disturbing trends she’s seeing with how some people celebrate Halloween.
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“I think there’s a change that we’re seeing in our culture as a whole, honestly, and one of my biggest warnings about Halloween, and I’m not here to say whether to celebrate it or not, but I want to warn people that divination … I am noticing that tools of divination, such as the Ouija board, tarot cards, they are marketed more in the Halloween season,” she said. “[Halloween] parties are having tarot card readers, you’re seeing this in your Home Goods [stores], your CVS, your kids are going to these stores, Five Below, and they are glorifying tools of divination, making them seem fun and, you know, that it’s no big deal.”
Unfortunately, personal experience has taught Ms. Nizza to know better. Her journey in the occult started at the age of 12 when she began to have what she describes as “psychic attacks.” A year later, her mom invited a tarot reader to their house and the then-13-year-old had her first tarot card reading. At that point, she was hooked.
“What seemed innocuous and maybe like you said, fun… ended up to be an addictive, horrible rabbit hole of destruction,” she said. “And that was the entryway. [I] always say there’s a gateway or an entryway into the demonic, whether it’s tarot cards, Ouija boards, horoscopes, what have you. And then I went down this rabbit hole … And ultimately, I ended up as a psychic medium believing that I was hearing from deceased people who wanted to get their messages to their loved ones who were still living.”
At the time Ms. Nizza thought it was “a gift from God” and that she was helping people, but she soon discovered that her “gift” was more of a curse. She began to feel demonic forces around her and even saw demons manifest themselves — and they looked eerily like the Halloween decorations she sees today.
“I don’t know why some people are able to see into the demonic and into the spiritual realm like I did back then, but I did,” she said. “So with Satan and his minions putting these [demonic decorations] in your Home Goods, you’re buying them, but you don’t even know, that’s actually what a demon can look like. And now you’re putting it on your front lawn.”
Ms. Nizza hopes that her experiences will serve as a warning to people who may approach New Age ideas and the occult as a joke or no big deal.
“My biggest warning would be if you, I always say when you do devilish things, you will get devilish outcomes. You will get devilish results,” she said. “Satan masquerades as an angel of light, okay? So what you think is fun, what you think is innocent is actually a tool of the devil, a game of the devil. It’s not a game to mess with. This is not something to tinker with. Ouija boards, like you said, any of these things, the readings, do not tinker with them because now you’re opening that door to demons, thereby inviting them into your life. And that is the reality of it.”
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Marissa Mayer is a writer and editor with more than 10 years of professional experience. Her work has been featured in Christian Post, The Daily Signal, and Intellectual Takeout. Mayer has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
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