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
Lepus
the hare at Orion's feet
The hare has been running since before you were born. Under Orion's feet, ahead of the dogs, small heart going like a drum in wet grass, and here is the thing nobody tells you, she is good at it. Fast, sure-footed, still here. The fear is real and so is the fact that the fear has never once caught her. She doesn't get to stop, but she also doesn't get caught, and somewhere in those two sentences is a whole way of living.
Survival counts as winning, mark it somehow.
- Constellation
- Lepus
- In your sky now
- 34° up · 164° 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