VMP Magazine

Humans have always had a fascination with magic. In the world’s current chaotic climate, many cultural channels have had to switch to a more “new age” approach, satisfying a rising populace solving their disillusionment with witchery. Nowadays, you can find charged rose quartz chips swirling in perfume (to attract love) sold by en vogue shops. Online publications like Broadly and Refinery29 frequently release content spotlighting the best tarot spreads and crystal grids. You can even scroll through social media and browse the growing collection of Twitter astrologists, meticulously picking apart Beyonce’s birth chart in a bid to discover what exactly makes her Virgo-sun, Scorpio-moon and Libra-ascendant dominants tick.

But this sudden mass-exodus toward the use of tarot, spellcasting and dried sage isn’t new for one faction: music. Witchy women have always been a staple archetype in that world.