I am not your personal healer. I was not put on this planet, as a personal guide for you, to hold your hand and walk you through life, as though my own existence is no longer valid or of value. There is a common misconception that witches, healers, lightworker, gurus, etc, owe the general public their energy, their time, their world. As though their own existence suddenly is only of value for what they can provide, and for free at that.
When we consider for a moment Abrahamic religions, this notion comes up that these spiritual leaders, priests, rabbis, etc work for free. Which is simply not true. They do not just exist, no need for food, shelter, clothes, etc. The Catholic Church is worth 30 billion dollars and that money didn’t just land in their laps. Have you ever seen a bishop’s personal home? They are usually beautiful. It comes from donations of the public, investments, etc. So why is it that we feel as though counsel from a sole individual becomes out proverbial duty to serve the public?
I, for example, am a business. Yes of course I am a witch. Yes of course I am a tarot reader. But at the end of the day, outside of personal practices I do for myself and my closest friends, these are services I provide for the public at a cost. This is my job. I am of course fortunate as hell, to be able to incorporate my passion and spiritual practice as also a way to put food on my table. But this isn’t some bored housewife hobby job. This is my career, my passion, my life. The absolute entitlement, that my energy and time is owed to you, to the public, for no kind of exchange is just baffling to me. If you, for example, are a skilled woodworker. Let’s call it your gift from God, you have two hands that were gifted with the talent to create beautiful work- is that now your duty to give it to me for free? I mean, you were born with this gift to create were you not? So do you now owe that to me, a consumer, who needs some woodworking done? Of course not. So why do we suddenly find it acceptable to ask that of the spiritual community?
Expecting people to “share” their gifts for free, because you feel that they owe you that is AUDACIOUS. No one works for free. We don’t even expect our spirits, or deities to work for free, we leave them offerings. We put a lot of energy into the services we provide and it shows. You want someone to do spellwork, divination, etc for you, and you want it to work? It takes time, energy, knowledge, skill, practice, trial, and error. You are not paying simply for a one-off spell. You are paying for the hours, days, years, trials, failures, study, and energy that got your witch to the point that they can offer you this service.
The other problem that comes into play is this notion that people get paid to be on Instagram, and therefore we should do everything else for free is mind-boggling to me. Now I cannot speak to accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers or millions even. But my small scale 40ish thousand, I don’t see one penny. Not even one.
And to expect people to devote all their energy and time to you, and get nothing in return? How dare you. Truly, how very dare you. And DOUBLE how dare you, that when we (I) politely decline, to send me rude, insulting, harassing, and inflammatory hate mail. How. Dare. You.
No one owes you shit. And if you think they do, you are an entitled human being who needs to take a long look in the mirror.