The Urban Mystic | Narrative Art & Modern Mysticism

Behind the Scenes

What's this all about?

If my life were a TV show, the first season would probably be called Hex and the City. Days filled with meetings and strategies; nights lit by tarot cards, candle flames, and a touch of magic. The twist? It’s all real.

Writing is my primary medium

As a narrative artist, I work with what I call narrative magick: the conscious shaping of stories, symbols, and archetypes that influence our perception, identity, and scope of action. Through essays, stories, rituals, and visual explorations, I investigate symbolic echoes and the quiet magic of everyday moments. Photography and symbolic art further extend this practice.

What shapes my work

My work emerges where psyche and art intertwine, where intuition meets insight, and the rhythms of corporate life collide with archetypal patterns. From a nature-based perspective, I honor cycles, transitions, and the symbolic structures that run through both the natural world and urban life. The Wheel of the Year, archetypes, and recurring narratives shape the way I write, create, and explore meaning.

Symbols are my language. They reveal what can easily be lost in a hyper-logical world — and open spaces where myth, metaphor, and psychological empowerment come together.

Yet my work doesn’t stop at the aesthetic. I question power structures — in society, the corporate world, the patriarchy, and even within spirituality. I explore where magic liberates and where it has been used to constrain. I write about feminism, identity, autonomy, and the psychological currents that continue to shape our modern lives.

Who is she?

Hi, I’m Nicole — a creative rebel living in Switzerland, a corporate human-whisperer by day, and an unapologetic Urban Mystic by night. Yes, I’m trained in psychology, counseling, and human behavior; yes, I love science, evidence, and the astonishing complexity of the human brain. And at some point, I realized: the most fascinating spaces don’t exist between opposites—they exist at their intersections.

I’ve lived in the city for over a decade, yet my heart has followed a nature-based, pagan path for more than 20 years. Fascinated by symbolism, mythology, and the history of human cultures, I explore how people create meaning—and how these systems of meaning shape us psychologically.

My perspective moves deliberately between research and lived experience. Culturally informed and psychologically reflective, I’m interested in magical and spiritual traditions from across the world—from shamanic practices to complex symbolic systems—always in dialogue with history, society, and individual identity.

I’m interested not only in the inner realities these systems once shaped, but also in how they continue to influence perception, self-understanding, and meaning today—especially in urban spaces, where ancient symbols meet modern life.

Art that Stirs Something

Part of my work — and part of my responsibility while creating art — is to challenge how we see ourselves, each other, and the world. Art isn’t meant to please everyone. It’s meant to stir something: discomfort, recognition, curiosity, clarity, rebellion. My creative work invites reflection rather than offering easy answers. Whether someone resonates with it or not is less important than whether it made them think. That’s the quiet, radical power of art — to open a door in the mind that can’t be closed again.