🔮 THE RED WITCH READING #13: When the Future Taps You on the Shoulder
From Doktor Snake:
This reading comes from Martin, living in Stevenage, working in marketing in London.
Martin isn’t panicking — but he’s paying attention.
AI tools are now part of his daily workflow.
Social posts generated in seconds.
Images created at the click of a button.
Campaigns automated.
The graphic designer he works with hasn’t been laid off — but has been quietly shifted sideways.
The creative element of the job has thinned out.
What remains feels increasingly… administrative.
Martin sees the writing on the wall.
He’s wondering whether to learn something practical.
Woodwork.
Plumbing.
A skill that lives in the hands — not the cloud.
And he asks the Red Witch: Is this sensible? Or am I running from shadows?
The Red Witch Speaks:
“When the ground trembles, the wise do not argue with it — they adjust their footing.”
She says Martin’s instinct is not fear.
It is pattern recognition.
AI does not replace people.
It replaces abstraction.
Anything that exists purely in symbols — text, images, strategy, admin — will thin, compress, and centralise.
Not vanish overnight.
But narrow.
“The future is not digital or physical,” she says.
“It is layered.”
The Red Witch does not tell Martin to abandon marketing.
Nor does she tell him to leap blindly into a trade.
Instead, she offers a third path.
“Learn with your hands — not to escape your mind, but to anchor it.”
A practical skill does more than provide income.
It restores causality.
You act.
Something real changes.
A thing works — or doesn’t.
This grounds the psyche in a world increasingly mediated by screens.
“Those who can think and make,” she says,
“will always eat.”
🜂 The Practice — “Anchor the Future”
For the next month:
• Keep your current work steady.
• Begin learning one physical skill — even at hobby level.
• No pressure to monetise immediately.
While working with your hands, stop internal dialogue completely.
Let the task occupy your attention fully.
Say silently:
“I build what I stand on.”
This stabilises anxiety and restores a sense of agency — regardless of how technology shifts.
🜃 Reflection
The future rarely announces itself dramatically.
It whispers first.
Martin isn’t fleeing.
He’s preparing.
And preparation, the Red Witch reminds us,
is simply respect for reality.
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