The Mystic & the Witch
April 12, 2022
I first sketched this in October 2020, but back then, it was just in black and white. The color hadn’t been added. The story wasn’t complete.
The box was inspired by this box, which belonged to my ancestor. Her name was Remember, so I wrote the word on the box: REMEMBER.
Remember visited me in a vision three months earlier—in July 2020— whispering about witches and mystics. She told me about the ways they were similar, the ways they were separate, and how I mustn’t leave one behind for the other.
The mystic sits in quiet contemplation and lets themself receive information. Lets the knowing return. Simply lets the magic flow through.
The witch takes the magic and bends and weaves it, playing an active role in shaping reality.
These two archetypes are the yin and yang of working magic.
And by October 2020, I’d really started integrating Remember’s lesson - the merging of two halves—and I found myself asking to be shown the stars, the planets, the asteroids—trusting that they would just come to me.
Then, a few hours later, in the early morning—in a half asleep, half awake state—I experienced this vast expansion in my mind’s eye. My field of inner vision opened wide, and in that space, I saw the night sky and all the stars, and in that moment, I felt as though what I was seeing must be accurate despite the fact that I had no standard of comparison.
At the time, I was living in New York City, and on a clear night I was lucky if I saw two stars — TWO — but there in my mind, I could see them all.
Then, I woke up.
I started hearing numbers streaming through my mind.
And I took the numbers.
I typed them into planetary mapping software, and I hit enter.
Every time, the seemingly random number revealed a new-to-me asteroid, perfectly positioned at a significant place in the sky (e.g., at the same degree as the sun).
For those of you who don’t know, every asteroid has a numeric designation, and that day, my intuition told me that the numbers I was hearing were asteroid numbers. This was confirmed by entering the numbers into the software, revealing the number’s corresponding asteroid, and seeing that the asteroid wasn’t just randomly positioned in space, but it happened to be—at that very point in time—placed in a significant location (e.g., in astronomical conjunction with a major planet).
As I entered number after number, revealing asteroid after asteroid, I came to realize all the ways the information of the cosmos was flowing through me.
And I sat quietly, and I listened to the stories it told, and I took the information, and I started weaving.
