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
Cepheus
the helpless king
Cassiopeia's sharp words, a boast flung like a pebble, demanded a crushing price. His daughter, chained to the rock, the monstrous maw rising from the deep. What power had a king then, but to grieve? Yet, a hero's blade, a gift from the gods, cut the chains. Now, he arcs forever, between the very women who once bound him. A quiet forgiveness, a fixed star.
Accepting help from an unexpected direction is a kingly act, not a failed one.
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- In your sky now
- 24° up · 332° on the compass
- Drawn
- Tue, Sep 1, 6:36 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