The horse becomes a unicorn


Artist Odyssey

Hello World Changer!

I’m feeling spicy and defiant. I want to break down walls, shatter the grips of control, and challenge what is expected. I feel the urge to shock and disrupt but still express what is beautiful, true, noble, and just. To bring forth what is lovely, wondrous, and inspiring.

I see an image before me—a magical being, glowing in splendor, surrounded by a sea of glistening glass. A white horse waiting patiently for the moment that is coming.

He will not arrive too early and never be too late. He carries with him power and majesty. On his shoulders rests government. His strong legs withstand the pressure of the changing season and the winds of resistance. He is a movement. He is standing in our future, calling us to it. He is gathering up the called-out ones who will establish the world to come.

Painting What Is To Come

As I begin painting this creature, I’m wondering how people will take a painting of a unicorn. Will it hold its weight in what it represents? But I just trust my intuition and what I see beyond the canvas, as I continue to pull the far things near.

Painting the horse over the last 17 years has brought me through a long prophetic journey of personal discovery, the revelation of my destiny, and the insight into the art movement I see we are in the center of. It is like a forceful tornado, yet we are safely held within the eye wall, hurling through this moment, this age, as structures are being destroyed and new ones raised up.

The horse began as one who stood in the gap between what is and what will be. One who held the burden of responsibility to step up and answer the call, but also carried the presence of what is Divine within the realm of creativity. By standing in that gap, an artist makes manifest the imaginations of the future while finding the strength to overcome our own self doubts, fears, and shortcomings.

A Movement Takes Flight

Several years and hundreds of paintings later, the horse grew wings and took flight. The movement spread throughout the earth and occupied the second heaven of an online space. The artists increased in number and deepened their skills. They found their strength in the wings the Divine offered them.

This new transition showed me there was momentum building, a collective force that would circle the earth and make true every prophecy spoken since the beginning of time.

The artists are accumulating and strengthening, knowing who they are and what their place is. They have grown in their boldness and belief. Like Pegasus, they have forever accessed the spring of life that brings new inspiration and vision. They are co-creators and co-imagineers that are transforming the earth into the new earth, as the old earth passes away.

This is not a violent and destructive shift, but one of truth and grace. These artists preside over the seat of beauty and function as the world changers that will terrify the oppressors, bringing freedom, liberty and abundance. The banner over them is love.

And now, as I deliver these brushstrokes to articulate the form of this unicorn—the ready one, the one who is coming, who knows the day and the hour—this creature emerges not as fantasy but representing the authority artists possess in their creative power.

In Scripture, horns symbolize power, rulership, and governing authority. Kings wore crowns with horns. Altars had horns. Horns represented the power to push, establish, defend, and lead.

A shofar is a ram’s horn that, like a trumpet, sounded an alarm for spiritual renewal or an awakening. It proclaimed a moment or a movement to come. The blowing of a shofar was a signal that is was the Year of Jubilee, where all debts were erased and the captives were set free. A shofar was used to gather and mobilize the people. It was used for the call to battle.

Architects of Imagination

I began to realize artists are not merely decorators or just expressing themselves, standing on the edges of society. They are forerunners. Culture makers. Architects of imagination.

Before policy shifts, art shifts.

Before nations move, stories move.

Before culture changes its laws, it changes its images.

Artists shape what people desire, celebrate, tolerate, fear, and hope for. They establish emotional thought leadership long before politicians ever write it into policy. Music, film, fashion, literature, painting, design, media, architecture—all of it forms the collective imagination of a people.

That is authority.

And perhaps the unicorn carries another truth: that there is something almost supernatural about creativity itself. A mysterious partnership between heaven and humanity. God entrusts artists with vision, influence, platforms, and the ability to pull invisible things into visible form.

The horse carries movement.

The unicorn carries dominion.

And maybe that is what artists truly are: not entertainers on the sidelines of history, but prophetic builders shaping the future before the rest of the world arrives there.

Paint the Vision

So artist, just know as a fellow unicorn, you are in the right place at the right time. You have not missed anything, and you are not late. This is truly your moment to move into the momentum that is all around you. Take up your brush, push through resistance, and dare to paint the pure vision of your heart without hedging or watering it down.

You don't need to worry about anything. Every detail of your destiny has been already planned and provided for. You will be given platforms, opportunities, and patrons who are waiting to support what you have to offer. They too have been called. You will not lack.

Braveheart, all that is required of you is your courage. You have the authority, the magic, and the power. Paint and watch what worlds will unfold.

What vision is in your heart to paint?

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Visionary artist, author, educator, inspirational speaker, and founding owner of Milan Art. Revolutionizing how art is sold and artists are taught. Excellence in art without elitism.

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