Doreen Virtue describes five different types of lightworkers: incarnate angels; incarnate elementals; starpeople; walk-ins; and reincarnated sorceresses, sorcerers and wizards.

Doreen Virtue describes five different types of lightworkers: incarnate angels (those who had previous lives as angels, but who are now here as humans); incarnate elementals (those whose previous lives were in the elemental kingdom, as fairies and elves); starpeople (those who have lived the majority of their past lives on other planets); walk-ins (those who come from a high spiritual realm and walked-in to another person's life); and reincarnated sorceresses, sorcerers and wizards (those whose most recent past life was during Arthurian and Atlantian times).