✨You should be able to feel like you deserve to get paid as a diviner even while you’re still learning.
✨I see far too often people feeling ‘not good enough’ to get paid for their readings. As well as people who are professionals criticizing people who are newer to reading than they are for charging anything at all.
✨While it’s completely fine to not charge for your services, I don’t think that the motivation to provide it for free should come from feeling like you’re undeserving or not good enough. If you value the practice just as much as any monetary compensation, or you feel called to donate your time and energy, that’s fantastic. But know that your time, energy, the hours spent studying and learning... it’s all worth something. Its worth money if you feel comfortable charging for it. Again, completely fine if you’re uncomfortable charging, but know that you could and would be worth it and deserving if you did.
✨It’s /not/ okay to criticise someone for charging what they feel they’re worth. As long as they’re being truthful about their skill level and experience, they should be able to feel that they are worth what they’re charging. That’s not to say that they will get clients willing to pay it, but if you’re someone who’s looking for a reading, and their prices are too high in your opinion, you have no right to belittle and shame them for their pricing. Just go to someone else. Likewise, if you’re another diviner and you see someone charging a fee that you think is unfair, weather it be undercutting you, or what you deem ‘overcharging’ you have no right to trash them about it. Just keep doing your own business and don’t be petty. There will always be people, perfectly kind, well-meaning, people who charge what you think is unreasonable. You charge what you see fit, and your idea of what’s ‘fair’ is highly personal and subjective so obviously not everyone will agree with you.
✨I see this in regards to people providing their services for free (’omg you’re undercutting everyone and making it so we can’t earn anything’) as well as people ‘overcharging’ (’you’re still just a student in this industry! you have no right to charge anything if you still have to refer to the guidebook at all!’)
✨Both of those are wrong.
✨Would you expect to get a piece of artwork for free that you commissioned from an art student?? No. Of course not. They spent their time, energy, money for materials, and money for education on it. They likely had to refer to some reference material, maybe get input from a professor and such as they were making it. Just like someone still learning spent time and energy studying, bought the deck, possibly books on tarot and a course here and there. They may feel the need to peek a the guidebook for clarification or ask their teacher/mentor for input. I see no difference here. Why is there no qualms about paying for one but not the other? As long as the reader isn’t just copy and pasting the guidebook’s text to you, then weather or not they deserve to get paid shouldn’t even come into question.
✨So, charge what you’re comfortable with, value yourself and your time, only accept clients who see your worth, and ignore anyone who’s shoving their ‘holier than thou’ attitudes in your face.
✨For those who are diviners, or still studying a form of divination: You’re lovely, wise, constantly learning, and worth every penny.
✨And for those who are patrons of diviners, pay your readers, tip your readers (even when they do a ‘free reading’) don’t haggle price, and get paid readings whenever you can..don’t just search tumblr for free readings even though you could afford to pay. Support your diviners, professional witches, and the community!
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