The 9x9 Story

From the imaginal to reality. The 9x9 Universe is a structure where what exists within me is given form and space. Now opened for others to enter, expand, and build within.

How it appeared

Hey, I am Vae and well... I did not decide to build the 9x9 Universe, it literally appeared, piece by piece, at the pace of my own expansion. All my life, I lived between two realities, the visible one, where I tried to make things work, and the other, where everything already existed within chaos, yes, but also meaning.

I made my first little business a magical burrow, then an isolated laboratory, then a sacred church. Until I realized that the next era was not mine to keep, it was something others could enter, expand, and build with me. The 9x9 Universe is the moment I stopped reducing what I see to fit reality, and instead began constructing a world strong enough to hold everything.

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Portrait of Vae Bataille with white wings against a soft light background.

My work

Now, here’s the truth. I don’t have credentials to show you. As you can imagine, school was profoundly painful. What I do have is a direct, daily relationship with the unconscious, imagination, and parts work since I was about 6 or 7 years old. I live with an inner world that interacts with me constantly, and instead of stepping away from it, I learned how to stay without fear and build with it.

For years, this only existed in my own life, until 2018, when I started helping others shape their experience through the same process. After years of mentorship, art direction, content creation, lived experience, and failures, I saw it clearly, this wasn’t only for me, it was a territory to share.

The 9x9 Universe is that structure, my portfolio; the businesses I created over the years, and the people I mentored to build their own.

Vae Bataille facing a cathedral-like structure in a mist-filled landscape.

III

The Entry Point

Inside the 9x9 Universe, you don’t start from zero, you bring what already exists within you and place it inside a container that can hold it, all of you. Your work becomes positioned, seen, and able to evolve as part of something much larger. This is not a place to figure things out endlessly, we’re done with that. It is a place to build, to expand, and to let your world take form in a territory designed for it.

It’s not for you if you are looking for something to follow, something to copy, something to worship, or something to make you feel safe without asking anything of you.

It’s for you if you feel something reading this, whatever it is. It’s for you if you already know there is a world inside you that needs to open to a wider territory, and you’re ready to stop holding it alone.

Let’s make imagination real.

Vae Bataille overlooking a surreal cityscape and cathedral-like structure.