We went to the Appalachian Mountains for a relaxing getaway. We came back with stories about extraterrestrials, strange lights, unexpected channeling, and something that might have been trying to lure us into the woods by mimicking a human voice.

You know. Normal vacation things. 👽

In this episode of Alchemy Unhinged, we're spilling the tea on our recent trip to Blue Ridge, Georgia, where a secluded A-frame cabin became the setting for what might be one of our wildest experiences yet.

We dive into Dr. Steven Greer's CE5 protocol and our attempt to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. What followed included unexplained flashes of light in the mountains, intense energetic experiences, and moments that left us questioning what we'd just witnessed.

But the extraterrestrials weren't the only reason the Appalachian Mountains made this trip unforgettable.

The following night, we heard strange voices that didn't quite make sense. Enter Appalachian folklore, the legend of the mimic, and the chilling idea that something in the woods might learn your voice and use it to lure you outside.

We get into spiritual channeling, consciousness, energetic protection, Indigenous folklore, trusting your intuition, and the fine line between this is absolutely magical and maybe we should leave every light in this cabin on.

Was it extraterrestrial contact? Something paranormal? An experience we don't yet have the language to explain? We're sharing what happened, what we experienced, and how we're making sense of it all.

Grab your tea, turn on a few lights, and come down the rabbit hole with Auric Blackwood and Jo-Lynn Bhagwandin.

Just remember: if you hear your name in the woods, maybe don't answer. 👀

Welcome to the Appalachian X-Files.

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What if the relationship you keep neglecting is the one you’ll have for the rest of your life?

We’re taught from an early age that happiness lives somewhere outside of us. Find your person. Get married. Have kids. Build the house. Be desirable. Be good. Be successful. And somewhere along the way, we become so focused on being somebody’s partner, parent, child, friend, or caretaker that we completely lose track of who the hell we are.

In this episode of Alchemy Unhinged, we’re flipping the script on relationships and getting into the one relationship that changes everything: the relationship with yourself.

We talk about religious conditioning, purity culture, queer identity, codependency, marriage, sexuality, boundaries, people-pleasing, self-care, and why so many of us are trying to create healthy relationships with other people while barely knowing how to have one with ourselves.
We get into the uncomfortable question: Do you actually know what you want? What makes you happy? What fills your cup? What do you desire? What are your boundaries? What parts of your life are actually yours, and what are you still doing because someone else taught you that’s what you were supposed to want?

Because you are not broken. You don't need to be fixed. You need to unearth yourself.

And once you stop pouring from an empty cup, everything changes. Your relationships. Your boundaries. Your capacity to love. Your ability to receive. Your entire relationship with your own life.

So grab your tea and come sit with us for a conversation about self-love, codependency, relationships, conditioning, boundaries, sexuality, and learning how to choose yourself without abandoning the people you love.

Because the goal isn't to need nobody.

It's to become so deeply connected to yourself that you can love others from overflow instead of depletion.

Alchemy Unhinged is hosted by Auric Blackwood & Jo-Lynn Bhagwandin.

#AlchemyUnhinged #SelfLove #Codependency #Relationships #PersonalGrowth #SpiritualAwakening

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What if you don't actually need another freaking sign?!

What if you don't need another course, another certification, another book, another tarot pull, another Google search, or another person to tell you what you already know?

Maybe you just need to **trust yourself.**

Welcome to this week's Unhinged Forecast from Alchemy Unhinged, where we take the astrology, Gene Keys, Human Design and tarot for the week ahead and translate all of that cosmic bullshit into something you can actually use in your life. 😂

This week, we're moving from “I need more information” into “I need to trust what I already know.”

We're diving into Gene Key 48: Inadequacy → Resourcefulness → Wisdom and Human Design Gate 48, the Gate of Depth, and exploring that familiar feeling of never being ready enough, knowledgeable enough, healed enough, successful enough or qualified enough.

Because how many times are you going to tell yourself you need one more thing before you finally trust yourself?

We're also moving toward Gate 57 and intuitive clarity, which brings us out of the endless mental analysis and back into the body. That subtle nudge. That gut feeling. That knowing you can't always explain but somehow fucking know.

Plus, we're breaking down the astrology for October 5–11, including:

🦂 Venus retrograde in Scorpio
💋 Mercury conjunct Venus in Scorpio
🌑 The New Moon in Libra
🔥 Mars square Venus
♎ Libra season, relationships, boundaries and balance
🧬 Gene Key 48: Inadequacy → Resourcefulness → Wisdom
🔺 Human Design Gate 48: Depth
✨ The shift toward Gate 57 and intuitive clarity
🔮 Tarot for the week ahead

And because we can't do an Alchemy Unhinged Forecast without getting a little feral, we're also talking about the difference between knowing something in your body and immediately letting your mind talk you out of it.

Your unhinged experiment this week is simple:

Every time you catch yourself saying, “I need to know more before I can…” STOP!

Ask yourself this instead: “Do I actually need more information, or do I need to trust myself?”

You don't have to act on every feeling.

But you also don't have to talk yourself out of every fucking thing you already know.

Maybe you don't need another sign.

Maybe you just need to do the damn thing.

🔮 Welcome to the Unhinged Forecast.

Subscribe to Alchemy Unhinged and join us every week as we explore astrology, Gene Keys, Human Design, tarot, spirituality, self-discovery and all the beautiful chaos of being a human being.

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What happens when you go into an ayahuasca ceremony looking for healing and come out the other side speaking snake, a set of spiritual gifts, and an entirely different understanding of yourself?

In Part 2 of our plant medicine journey, we’re going deeper into the experiences that completely cracked us open.

We talk about Mother Aya, snake medicine, spiritual gifts, channeling, ancestral connections, energy healing, spirit language, purging, integration, and the bizarre moments that left us asking, “Was that real?”

Auric’s journey took him into encounters with snakes, Yeshua, Sekhmet, healing energy, venom, ancestry, and a direct download of something he was meant to do. Jo-Lynn received her own unexpected encounter with the fae. And somewhere along the way, the two of us experienced ourselves as two heads of the same iridescent snake...yes... we are snake sisters!

Because apparently, this is what happens when two spiritual weirdos drink ayahuasca together.

We also get into the part nobody talks about enough: what happens after the ceremony. The doubt. The questioning. The integration. The religious conditioning that makes you wonder whether you can trust your own experience. And the challenge of bringing something completely unexplainable back into ordinary life.

This isn't about telling you what to believe. It's about sharing what we experienced, what we made of it, and what happened when the medicine got very, very personal.

Grab your tea. We're going back into the jungle. 🐍

#AlchemyUnhinged #Ayahuasca #PlantMedicine #SpiritualAwakening #SpiritualGifts #AyahuascaJourney #PlantMedicineIntegration

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What if the thing you keep calling “self-improvement” is actually keeping you stuck?

Welcome to this week’s Unhinged Forecast, where we look at the week ahead through astrology, Gene Keys, Human Design, tarot, and a little bone-casting magic, because apparently one form of divination wasn’t enough. 😂

This week’s theme is STOP MAKING YOURSELF WRONG FOR WHAT YOU’RE BEING SHOWN.

We’re diving into Gene Key 18: Judgment → Integrity → Perfection and Human Design Gate 18, the Gate of Correction. And we’re getting into the very real difference between noticing something that needs to change and using that awareness as another reason to beat the shit out of yourself.

Because perfectionism can look incredibly productive. More research. More preparation. More healing. More planning. More tweaking. More waiting until you’re “ready.”

And suddenly you’ve spent months preparing to do the thing instead of actually doing it.

We’re talking about **preparation paralysis, self-judgment, perfectionism, integrity, discernment, and learning to make corrections without turning yourself into the problem.**

Then we get into the astrology for September 28–October 4, including:

🦂 Mercury entering Scorpio
🔥 Mercury squaring Mars and Pluto
💋 Venus retrograde in Scorpio
🪐 The Sun opposing Saturn
♎ Libra season and the balance between ME vs. WE
🧬 Gene Key 18 + Human Design Gate 18
🔮 Tarot + bone casting for the week ahead

And the question we want you to carry with you this week is:

“Am I judging myself right now, or am I simply receiving information about something that needs to change?”

Because you are not broken.

You might just be seeing something clearly for the first time.

And once you can see it without judgment, you can actually do something about it.

Stop making yourself wrong for what you’re being shown.

Welcome to the Unhinged Forecast. 🔮

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What happens when two alchemists walk into plant medicine carrying completely different wounds, fears, gifts, and questions… and walk out realizing the medicine had been talking to both of them all along?

In this episode of Alchemy Unhinged, we’re taking you inside the plant medicine journey that changed the way we understood ourselves, each other, and the work we’re here to do.

Kambo. Humpaya. Ayahuasca. Ancestors. Extraterrestrials. Music. Voices. Death. Rebirth. Snakes. A whole lot of WTF moments. And two very different journeys happening inside the same medicine.

For Auric, the journey cracked open one of the deepest pieces of religious conditioning he carried from childhood: the belief that he was inherently bad. Born a sinner. Taught to fear the snake. And then the medicine asked a completely different question: what if the snake was never evil?

For Jo-Lynn, the medicine opened an entirely different door, revealing the relationship between her voice, healing, plant medicine, and the medicine she already carries within herself.

Two people. One week. Completely different journeys.

And somehow, every thread kept leading back to the same thing: maybe healing isn’t about becoming someone new. Maybe it’s about remembering who the hell you were before you were taught there was something wrong with you.

This is our story of the medicine, the messages, the moments we still can’t fully explain, and the beginning of a journey that ultimately led us straight into the work we’re building together.

And this is only Part One.

The deeper we went, the stranger it got. 🐍🔥

⚠️ This episode discusses Ayahuasca, Kambo, DMT, altered states of consciousness, and our personal experiences with plant medicine. Our experiences are personal and are not medical advice or a recommendation to use any substance. These medicines can carry significant physical and psychological risks and should not be approached casually.

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Unhinged Forecast | September 21-27, 2026

For this week’s forecast, Auric is flying solo on travel and bringing you the Energetic Forecast this week by slinging some cards and spilling the tea as always!

This weeks energy asks us to get out of our pretty little minds and stop analyzing life and actually get INTO Your life and start living it. Start walking the talk. We can be in our heads all day long…but that’s not where life is lived. We can be trapped in the noise and analysis paralysis of out minds while we do our best to figure whatever out….but until we get out of the noise and get into our bodies and start LIVING….it’s all just hypotheticals non-sense!

So this week…let’s be the king of Swords of our minds! let’s take control back of our minds, quiet the noise, and take a step into living! Shall we?!

And as usual, reflect back on the daily tarot card at the end of each day and see how it played out in your life.

Tarot Spread for this week:

WHAT’S GOING ON THIS WEEK: King of Wands
WHY IS IT HERE: 2 of Swords
HOW DO WE HANDLE IT: THe Wheel of Fortune

Daily Cards:
MONDAY: 5 of Swords
TUESDAY: Ace of Cups
WEDNESDAY: The Hierophant
THURSDAY: 9 of Cups
FRIDAY: The Magician
SATURDAY: Ace of Wands
SUNDAY: 6 of Pentacles

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