Jobs for Witches: Witches, historically associated with magic and sorcery, have defied societal norms and faced persecution throughout history. However, in modern times, the role of witches has evolved, expanding into various industries and professions. Here are a few potential job options for witches in today's world: 1. Tarot Reader: Many witches possess a strong intuition and a deep connection to the spiritual realm. As a tarot reader, a witch can use their skills to help individuals gain insight into their lives, providing guidance and advice through the interpretation of tarot cards. 2.

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2. Herbalist: Witches often have extensive knowledge of herbs and their medicinal properties. Becoming an herbalist allows witches to share their wisdom on the therapeutic benefits of natural remedies, crafting herbal potions, and developing holistic wellness practices.

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A woman left her job as a beautician doing hair and nails to become a full-time witch — and she makes more than $8,500 a month.

Jessica Caldwell, 29, decided to quit her job of five years when she had a “spiritual awakening” while scrolling through Instagram during one of her nail-technician shifts.

She was working six days a week at a salon until she stumbled across a Facebook group in 2019.

“The Facebook group was filled with posts where people explained their journeys into witchcraft,” she told SWNS. “It fascinated me, and I felt really drawn to know more.”

Caldwell, from Swansea, Wales, first “purchased crystals, tarot cards and a few herbs,” but when she bought witchcraft books online, she discovered she has a talent for reading tarot cards and “fell in love with crystals.”

“At first, I was extremely skeptical, but I was really curious,” she shared. “On my breaks at work in the salon, I’d be researching tarot cards and crystals. I became obsessed. I felt like it was a pull towards it all, it felt really natural to me.”

Caldwell started by offering her services free of charge to family and friends, and then demand increased, and she gave readings to strangers online.

Caldwell selects tarot cards for her client and records her readings on a voice memo, which usually are five to 10 minutes long. Tom Wren / SWNS

Caldwell remembered one client that “shocked” her.

”I had this woman approach me for a reading, and I kept getting the name ‘Steve.’ Eventually I had to say something — which she revealed was the name of her partner,” she shared. “I was spooked but amazed by my intuition.”

In January 2021, she set up an Instagram offering witch and tarot-card services full time — and immediately got a flood of requests.

Caldwell selects tarot cards for her client and records her readings on a voice memo, which usually are five to 10 minutes long, charging anywhere between $5 and $75.

“It just exploded online. Within six months, I had 16,000 followers,” she shared.

Now, she has 24,800 followers and over 5,000 clients — exclusively on social media — and reads tarot cards for celebrities and models.

In January 2021, she set up an Instagram offering witch and tarot-card services, so she can practice witchcraft full time. Tom Wren / SWNS

She’s even making three times as much as she did as a beautician.

Caldwell believes her talent has always been within her.

“I’ve always been a witch,” she said. “I just never had the tools to utilize my power until now. Intuition is a powerful tool that I never realized I used in my daily life. Now I utilize it within my readings with complete strangers.”

She started by offering her services free of charge to family and friends, and then demand increased, and she gave readings to strangers online. Tom Wren / SWNS

The witch admitted that her family and friends were concerned when she turned her intuition into a full-time career, but now that she’s raking in money, they’re supportive of her.

Many of her clients ask her about love and what their partner thinks of them, putting Caldwell in a situation to “have to tell them the brutal truth.”

“Some people just want a nice chat which can be just as helpful as a reading,” she said. ”I also give free advice on spell work and spirituality. I show people how to create protection charms. I even show them how to attract people to you.”

Jessica Caldwell, 29, decided to quit her job of five years when she had a “spiritual awakening.” Tom Wren / SWNS

She admitted that she does get a few trolls online, but all of her clients are “respectful and lovely.”

Caldwell works 10 hours per day, getting to “pick and choose” her own hours, and works from home.

She hopes more women will join in on the witchy lifestyle.

Caldwell bought witchcraft books online and discovered she has a talent for reading tarot cards and “fell in love with crystals.” Tom Wren / SWNS

“It’s really changed my life, it’s my calling. I do always encourage other women to give it a try. I’ve been on such a journey of discovery,” she said. ”A reading can discover so much about someone’s life. It’s like therapy for them. I always get people crying, saying that I’ve changed their life.”

“Additionally, I do everything within the comfort of my own home. I don’t see myself ever going back to [the] salon,” she continued. “I wish more women and men would trust their intuition. It’s a powerful tool when used properly.”

Four Jobs for an Ancient Witch

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Relief of the witch Medea, daughter of the sun-god in Greek mythology (via Wikimedia)

In medieval Europe, witch-finders roamed the countryside. Full of fear and misplaced piety, armed with the witch-hunter’s handbook — the Malleus Maleficarum, Hammer of the Witches – they put to death hundreds of innocent women.

But in ancient Greece and Rome, witches were a fact of life. Certainly, there were legends of women with fearsome powers: Medea, daughter of the sun-god, could raise the dead and command the heavens. Hecate was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, and the moon. But witches also lived around the corner, down the street — or sometimes even in the apartment next door. (The first Roman emperor, Augustus, ordered all magicians to be expelled from Italy, but they seem to have returned soon afterwards.) Greeks and Romans took a very practical approach to the supernatural — gods could be haggled with, the entrance to the underworld was a grisly tourist attraction, and your neighborhood witch could be put to work.

While witches were feared, it was generally accepted that there were times to call one in. Just like a rat-catcher today, you would much rather not need a witch in the first place — but if you did, you’d want the baddest one of them all. Magic was a way to control and make sense of a baffling and inscrutable world. Long before science made the natural world understandable, magic offered leverage.

Here are four jobs an ancient witch might be asked to take on:

The Curse

Curse-tablets — thin sheets of lead with curses scratched into the surface — have been found throughout the Greek and Roman worlds. Victims of theft, furious lovers, cheated traders, angry litigants: anyone who had been wronged could use one of these tablets to try their luck with the gods. Rage boils off the ones which have survived, for example:

May [the thief] neither urinate nor shit nor speak nor sleep nor have well-being nor health unless he bring [what he has stolen] to the temple of Mercury.

Recent studies suggest that many curse-tablets were mass-produced: prepared for sale with the curse ready-made. All the purchaser had to do was fill in the victim’s name.

An ancient curse-tablet (via Wikimedia)

Curses flew left and right in cities such as Rome. It could be tempting to blame any misfortune on the evil intervention of a witch — as Ovid wryly did, when unable to perform in bed:

Was it some witch that wrote my name on the crimson wax and plunged a needle into my liver? The corn, stricken by a witch’s curse, soon dwindles into sterile grass, the springs run dry, the acorn falls from the oak, the grape from the vine and the fruit drops from the tree, though no one shake the bough. Since this is so, why should not magic numb the nerves? Perchance ’twas magic that turned me into ice.

The Lover’s Charm

While witches could stop love in its tracks, they could also smooth its path. Roman love-poets — forever in hapless pursuit of very inappropriate (and often very married) women — could be tempted by the possibilities. Tibullus, dodging an angry husband, recommended the services of a witch to his lover:

Your husband won’t believe a thing about us, the truthful witch
promised me that, with her magic rites.
I’ve seen her drawing stars down from the sky:
her chant turns back the course of the flowing river. […]
She composed a spell for me, that you can deceive with:
chant it three times, spit three times when you’ve done.
Then your husband will not be able to believe anyone about us,
not even himself if he saw us in your soft bed.

An ancient compendium of magic (via Wikimedia)

Debt Relief

Ancient authors were unafraid to laugh at even the most fearsome powers of the world. Greek comedy filled its cast with drunken gods, cowardly heroes, and bumbling leaders of all descriptions. Even witches were apt to lose their dignity on this stage. In Aristophanes’ Clouds, one of the characters contemplates employing a witch to draw down the moon and stop it rising. This was one of the powers witches were often said to wield. But in Aristophanes, the moon must not rise because debts, in Athens, were calculated by the lunar calendar — and if the moon never reappears, then the debts never have to be repaid:

STREPSIADES: I have a scheme for not paying my debts.
SOCRATES: Let us hear it.
STREPSIADES: Tell me, if I got hold of a Thessalian witch, I could make the moon descend during the night and shut it, like a mirror, into a round box and there keep it carefully.
SOCRATES: How would you gain by that?
STREPSIADES: How? why, if the moon did not rise, I would have no interest to pay.
SOCRATES: Why so?
STREPSIADES: Because money is lent by the month.

Portrait of Medea by Frederick Sandys (1868) (via Wikimedia)

Murder most ghastly

Magic, however, could turn dark in a heartbeat. Witches were certainly put to work outrageously in ancient literature. But the world remained a strange and scary place. Witches, if thwarted, could unleash fearsome powers — as Apuleius explores in the Metamorphoses. Here, the unfaithful wife of a miller asks a witch to weave love-magic — and reconcile her unfaithful husband with her. But when the witch is unsuccessful, the miller is set up for a very nasty end:

The miller’s wife sought out a certain ancient crone, who had a reputation for being able to accomplish absolutely anything through her witchcraft. She asked for one of two results, either that she should be reconciled with her husband, or if the witch could not do that, that at any rate a ghost should be sent to do violence to him and destroy him.

Then the witch tried to turn the husband’s mind from its deep-seated rage towards love. The plan did not work as she had intended. The witch became angry. Now she began to threaten the poor husband’s life - and summoned the ghost of a woman who had been violently killed, in order to kill him.

At around the middle of the day, a woman suddenly appeared in the mill, her face disfigured by unhappiness, clothed only in a wretched piece of patchwork cloth. Her tangled hair was caked in the ashes which had been scattered over it. She drew the miller aside to his room, and pulled the door to. His men began to suspect that something was amiss. They broke the door, and forced their way in. The woman was nowhere to be seen - but their master was hanging by a noose from a beam, already dead.

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3. Occult Shop Owner: Owning and operating an occult shop caters to the needs of the witch community. A witch can curate a selection of magical tools, spell ingredients, books, and other esoteric items, creating a space where fellow witches can gather, learn, and connect. 4. Energy Healer: Drawing upon their understanding of energy manipulation, witches can explore careers as energy healers. By harnessing and directing their energy, they can assist individuals in restoring balance and promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. 5. Paranormal Investigator: With their intimate knowledge of the supernatural, witches can contribute to the field of paranormal investigation. Using their intuition, psychic abilities, and understanding of the occult, they can aid in solving mysteries and exploring unexplained phenomena. 6. Astrologer: Witches often possess a deep understanding of astrology, using planetary alignments and celestial influences to guide their practice. Becoming an astrologer allows them to help individuals understand their paths, make informed life decisions, and gain insight into themselves and others. 7. Ritualistic Artisan: Witches can channel their creativity into creating ritualistic tools and artifacts. Designing and crafting items such as wands, cauldrons, candles, and spell jars not only showcases their artistic talents but also provides fellow witches with magical tools for their practice. 8. Wiccan High Priestess: In the Wiccan belief system, witches can hold leadership positions within covens as High Priestesses. Guiding and teaching fellow witches, they uphold traditions, perform rituals, and ensure the growth and well-being of their members. These job options highlight how witches can utilize their unique skills, knowledge, and perspectives in various industries. Embracing their identities and abilities, witches can pursue careers that align with their passions and allow them to thrive both personally and professionally in today's world..

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