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
Arcas
the bear-driver
An arrow sung, steel glinting towards the shaggy form of a bear, a mother unknowingly facing her son. That breath held, the world tilting, before the hand of Zeus, swift and bright, pulled them from the edge. No death, but a sky-bound dance. He, Boötes, her guardian now, suspended, eternally following, a life reversed, a tragedy unwound, woven into the cosmic loom.
You don't have to catch it to keep it, some bonds work best in orbit.
- Constellation
- Boötes
- In your sky now
- below the horizon now
- 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