Last Updated: January 10th, 2022 by
Some are known as spiritual mediums, while others prefer being called psychic mediums instead. Whatever your chosen title might be, becoming a medium is a challenging path that lets you help people with your natural abilities.
As a medium, you will use your abilities to communicate with the world of spirits. But, more importantly, as the name suggests, you will act as a medium through which messages are passed back and forth between the dead and the living.
In this guide, we’ll explore everything you need to know to become a medium and help others with your gift.
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Job Description
As Oprah.com points out, the job of a medium is to help people communicate with their loved ones on the spirit world or the ‘other side’. Generally, though, it means helping living people talk to their friends and family who have already passed away. Through your work, you will help people grieve, seek closure, understanding, and even happiness.
As a medium, you can serve your clients in several different ways. You will work with them one-on-one in private sessions or even in large group settings. Many mediums have also taken their services online to work with clients remotely.
The first step to becoming a medium is understanding the extent of your ability to communicate with the spirit world. Then, you can hone and master those skills through self-study, online courses, as well as training and mentorship from other spiritual mediums.
Your work as a medium will not only benefit countless other people but will also help you understand your place in the universe and use your natural gifts.
What Does an Average Day for a Medium Look Like?
When you work as a medium, you will manage your own time as you see fit. So, two mediums will likely have workdays that look very different.
Still, here’s what your average day will look like as a medium.
Meditate
As a medium, your mind and spirit must always be in harmony. When that’s the case, you will be able to give the best of your abilities to your clients. This outcome can be achieved through meditation.
For example, internationally-known spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen, in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, says that she spends a little bit of time each hour in the day to meditate.
Self-study
The spirit world is very complex, and so is your role in it as a medium. For that reason, you must always continually seek more knowledge and understanding. Remember: being a medium means that you are helping to pass messages between two worlds. So, having a deep understanding of your role will only help you do it better.
Provide Consultations
As a medium, providing consultations is your ‘bread and butter’. Depending on how your business is set up, you might do this face-to-face with individuals or groups. You may also work remotely by consulting over the phone or online through video conferencing.
As you can see, there is plenty of flexibility regarding how you share your gifts with your clients. You’ll get to choose whichever mode you feel is best for you.
Develop Your Network
Being a medium is nothing like working a regular 9 to 5 job, but you must still set aside some time to network. It’s always helpful to know other mediums like yourself with whom you might work in the future.
Besides that, networking is also helpful in finding new clients. When your community knows you and understands the value you provide with your gift, they will know who to come to when they need your help.
Market Your Services
What you have is a gift, and your work and business are built around it. To help more people, you must continuously market your services. In simple terms, that means you should spend some time getting the word out.
Mediums often give free ‘demonstrations’ to the public. Doing this helps people understand that you can help by sharing your gifts with your local community.
Manage Your Business
Even though your job is to help people, you’re also still running a business. That means you’ll spend part of your day managing things like paperwork, records, finances, and so on.
Process for Becoming a Medium
Firstly, it’s essential to understand that there is no fixed route or process to become a medium. In many ways, every medium followed their own personal journey.
However, there are several steps you can take to help you in your journey. In no particular order, here are those steps:
Understand Your Abilities
People who discover they have mediumship abilities often take a long time to understand why they can communicate with those from the spirit world. So it’s no surprise that some might even see it as an obstacle at first before understanding what a gift it really is.
The first step towards becoming a medium is to learn to accept your abilities. Once you’ve accepted it as a part of yourself, only then you can understand how to use it to help others.
Self-learning
The process to become a medium requires you to be a seeker. That means you will have to engage in plenty of self-learning, whether it’s in the form of books, online courses, and so on.
Thankfully, the internet makes this part of the process a lot easier for soon-to-be mediums these days.
Pursue Training
Universities and colleges don’t offer mediumship courses. However, there are plenty of other leading mediums who have started schools of their own. By pursuing training this way, you’ll be able to speed up your learning through the experience of those before you. You will also save time by learning the mistakes you should avoid during your journey.
Seek Mentorship
This step in the process is closely related to pursuing training and understanding your abilities. During your process towards mediumship, you must look for potential mentors. A mentor is someone who can help you understand your medium abilities and master them to help others.
In an interview by TODAY, Craig McManus, a full-time medium, demonstrates how he mentors and supports younger mediums to understand and master their abilities.
Start By Giving Demonstrations
During the early stages of your mediumship, people might not be willing to seek consultations with you just yet. That’s only normal because people besides your friends and family do not know you well enough.
New mediums can overcome this by giving demonstrations, especially to the people they know personally. In other words, you can start by working for free with friends, families, and colleagues. Then, when you have followers who believe in your abilities, your credibility will begin to grow.
Provide Paid Consultations
When you’re ready, you will be able to begin giving paid consultations. That means your followers and people who believe you can help them will be willing to pay for your help communicating with those in the spirit world.
As your clientele grows, so will your career!
Becoming a professional medium will require certain personality traits, skills, and competencies. Here are some that you will need to know if you’re suited for this type of career.
Personality and Skills
The first trait you must have to become a professional medium is open-mindedness. As mentioned earlier, you’re communicating with the spirit world, which no one fully understands. So, you must be open to possibilities that might not align with your personal beliefs.
As such, you will also need plenty of patience and discipline in honing your mediumship abilities and gaining experience. There will be times when you cannot help your clients as much as you’d like, so being patient with yourself is critical.
Lastly, your communication skills also need to be well-developed. To be more specific, your verbal communication skills will play a significant role here. As a medium, your work is similar to that of a translator, so you will need to explain things to your clients in ways that are easy for them to understand.
Credentials & Proficiencies
There are no requirements for permits or licenses to pursue mediumship. However, if you give paid consultations to clients, you will need a business license to operate legally.
In this day and age, understanding social media and video conferencing are also essential proficiencies to have.
Popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter will help you network with other mediums and potential clients. Video conferencing software like Skype and Zoom, on the other hand, is helpful for remotely consulting with clients.
Mediums typically charge for their services by the hour, and their prices can differ significantly. For instance, new mediums can charge as low as $20 an hour for consultations. On the other hand, experienced mediums often charge $180 or more, depending on the prices that their clients are willing to pay.
Several factors affect the price that clients are willing to pay to consult with a medium. To earn more as a medium, you can focus on the following factors:
- Accuracy: Remember: a medium’s job is to convey messages between this world and the spirit world. Sometimes, those messages are unclear. However, mediums known to get it right will be in higher demand and charge higher rates.
- Popularity: Just as mentioned earlier, word of mouth is a powerful motivator for clients to choose one medium over another. The higher the demand for a particular medium’s time, the more they can charge.
- Session Length: The average consultation with a medium lasts for an hour. However, mediums are independent workers, so some offer shorter sessions (e.g. 30 minutes) or longer ones (e.g. 90 minutes). Longer sessions require more effort and can cost more.
- Website: Mediums who operate online will also need a well-designed website. Since these clients cannot see you face-to-face, your website is the only way for them to know if you are worth the prices you charge.
Medium Job Growth
The demand for mediums all across the United States is strong and continues to grow each year. According to the Pew Research Center, 4 in 10 American adults believe in psychics, and that number seems to be growing.
In 2021, the market for psychic services (including mediumship) is valued at $2.2 billion in the United States. Research from Ibis World shows that the market size grew 2.6% this year alone, and they anticipate that it will grow by 0.5% each year until at least 2027.
With the growing demand for mediumship services, more and more mediums will be needed to help people with their needs.