A reading-room window onto the sky
Mystic Cards
A Mystic Card takes the constellation riding highest over you right now, where you stand, and hands you the old Greek myth behind its name, painted in our own hand, with the constellation's realstars laid over it in their true positions. Draw what's near, or draw at random.
It isn't a fortune. It's an invitation, sit with an ancient story for a minute and notice what it echoes in your own week. The constellation overhead changes through the night and the seasons; or pick any of the 33 below.
Reading the sky over Las Vegas, set yours below
A Mystic Card · the constellation over you now
Chrysomallos
the golden ram
After the flight the ram gave up its fleece, and the fleece became a treasure, then a quest, then a story sailors told each other, Jason, the Argo, the whole long song. But the sky did not keep the fleece. The sky kept the ram, plain and shorn, a dim little constellation you have to want to find. The treasure went to earth, the animal went to heaven, which feels backward until you sit with it. What you give away becomes legend. What you are stays.
Hold the good thing loosely, gripping is how it slips.
- Constellation
- Aries
- In your sky now
- 55° up · 259° on the compass
- Drawn
- Tue, Sep 1, 6:37 AM
Drawn with the constellation's real stars in their true positions.
The Daily Constellation
The constellation overhead, painted, with its myth and a short reading, sent each morning.
Arrives every morning