The rise of Britain's middle class witches: How career women are turning to spells, 'angel cards' and even Chat GPT 'magic' for a happier life
Lyndsey Shelley, 41, from Waterlooville in Hampshire, counts herself among the growing population of women practising witchcraft in the UK, and says she only discovered her 'powers' after suffering a near burn out over work.
'You work all the time just to drive a nice car and go on a couple of nice holidays a year, I wanted more.' she says.
After she came across a Facebook advert for a 'Quantum Holographic Echo Healing' class, Lindsey, intrigued, suggested to her husband that she might attend.
Soon she was reading Tarot cards and energy, casting protection spells and 'seeing people's auras'.
After discovering her powers, she says she spotted a 'gap in the market' for helping others who were stuck in life, to better themselves and their businesses via witchcraft.
Lindsey now runs her own business working as a psychic and an alignment mentor and helps people with 'energetic calibration' - and she says witchcraft is fundamental to her own happiness.
How much does an 'alignment' session with this very modern witch cost? Lindsey charges £111 for a personalised 'human design' reading, which, she says, can help show 'where your energy is distorted'.
The pro witch says she often works with high achievers in corporate jobs, advising them on how they can 'let their magic flow in a different way'.
Lyndsey receives 'messages' from the universe, mostly through music and animals. She recalls one instance where she saw not one but three dead badgers in the road, something that she is convinced was a sign for her not to give up.
TikTok witch Liberty Walker, 22, was raised in Bristol by a witch and says she now uses her portfolio of trusty spells every day...
'Angel cards are my favourite modern day witch tool. I ask the cards if I should go out sometimes, and when they say no, I get into bed and don’t think twice,' Liberty, who was raised in Bristol but now lives in London.
An emerging pop artist, the young witch grew up in a house where celebrating the full moon and performing daily spells was 'constant'.
In one clip, she told viewers how her mother would encourage her to hold on to hair lost in the shower and then burn it.
'Having loads of hair go down a drain - that's like your energy and it can really mess up things that go in on your life because you don't know what part of you is going to end up. It could go to a really low vibration,' she said.
Teeth are no different, Liberty added, explaining that her mother had never allowed anyone - including the family cat - to have their teeth disposed of.
She even believes she has ties to other worlds. In another video, she offered her 'favourite little ritual' for helping viewers to contact their dead loved ones on Halloween.
Tutor Anna Rogers, 31, from Norfolk, has 10,000 followers on TikTok, where she shares various aspects of her life as a 'slow living' witch...
Previously a primary school teacher, Anna Rogers says she first found herself drawn to witchcraft following a bout of chronic illness.
After what she describes as her spiritual 'awakening', Anna retrained as a reiki master and crystal healer, a passion that she now has on the side while working in a full-time job as a tutor.
Spirituality came to her young, she says, recalling how she was 'sensitive to energy' as a child, 'able to see colours (auras) around people' and feeling 'aware of presences that weren't there'.
A pull to nature was one of the biggest signs of her inner witch. She says she still often harnesses its power when crafting spells, something she thinks is 'great' for her mental health.
'Witchcraft is essentially just harnessing your own energetic power and drawing on the energy and power of the living world around you. Being a witch feels like home. When something feels so right, you can’t doubt it.'
'Think about birthday candles - you blow them out and make a wish. This is a really simplified version of spell craft.'
'I think people would be surprised to know how much witchcraft they do in their daily lives without realising that’s where it’s originating from.
'It’s proven in quantum physics that everything is energy, and therefore, if everything is energy, surely our words and intentions have great power? That’s my belief anyway.'
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Lyndsey Shelley, 41, from Waterlooville in Hampshire, counts herself among the growing population of women practising witchcraft in the UK, and says she only discovered her 'powers' after suffering a near burn out over work.
'You work all the time just to drive a nice car and go on a couple of nice holidays a year, I wanted more.' she says.
After she came across a Facebook advert for a 'Quantum Holographic Echo Healing' class, Lindsey, intrigued, suggested to her husband that she might attend.
Soon she was reading Tarot cards and energy, casting protection spells and 'seeing people's auras'.
After discovering her powers, she says she spotted a 'gap in the market' for helping others who were stuck in life, to better themselves and their businesses via witchcraft.
Lindsey now runs her own business working as a psychic and an alignment mentor and helps people with 'energetic calibration' - and she says witchcraft is fundamental to her own happiness.
How much does an 'alignment' session with this very modern witch cost? Lindsey charges £111 for a personalised 'human design' reading, which, she says, can help show 'where your energy is distorted'.
The pro witch says she often works with high achievers in corporate jobs, advising them on how they can 'let their magic flow in a different way'.
Lyndsey receives 'messages' from the universe, mostly through music and animals. She recalls one instance where she saw not one but three dead badgers in the road, something that she is convinced was a sign for her not to give up.
TikTok witch Liberty Walker, 22, was raised in Bristol by a witch and says she now uses her portfolio of trusty spells every day...
'Angel cards are my favourite modern day witch tool. I ask the cards if I should go out sometimes, and when they say no, I get into bed and don’t think twice,' Liberty, who was raised in Bristol but now lives in London.
An emerging pop artist, the young witch grew up in a house where celebrating the full moon and performing daily spells was 'constant'.
In one clip, she told viewers how her mother would encourage her to hold on to hair lost in the shower and then burn it.
'Having loads of hair go down a drain - that's like your energy and it can really mess up things that go in on your life because you don't know what part of you is going to end up. It could go to a really low vibration,' she said.
Teeth are no different, Liberty added, explaining that her mother had never allowed anyone - including the family cat - to have their teeth disposed of.
She even believes she has ties to other worlds. In another video, she offered her 'favourite little ritual' for helping viewers to contact their dead loved ones on Halloween.
Tutor Anna Rogers, 31, from Norfolk, has 10,000 followers on TikTok, where she shares various aspects of her life as a 'slow living' witch...
Previously a primary school teacher, Anna Rogers says she first found herself drawn to witchcraft following a bout of chronic illness.
After what she describes as her spiritual 'awakening', Anna retrained as a reiki master and crystal healer, a passion that she now has on the side while working in a full-time job as a tutor.
Spirituality came to her young, she says, recalling how she was 'sensitive to energy' as a child, 'able to see colours (auras) around people' and feeling 'aware of presences that weren't there'.
A pull to nature was one of the biggest signs of her inner witch. She says she still often harnesses its power when crafting spells, something she thinks is 'great' for her mental health.
'Witchcraft is essentially just harnessing your own energetic power and drawing on the energy and power of the living world around you. Being a witch feels like home. When something feels so right, you can’t doubt it.'
'Think about birthday candles - you blow them out and make a wish. This is a really simplified version of spell craft.'
'I think people would be surprised to know how much witchcraft they do in their daily lives without realising that’s where it’s originating from.
'It’s proven in quantum physics that everything is energy, and therefore, if everything is energy, surely our words and intentions have great power? That’s my belief anyway.'
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
