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 real stars 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 · constellation and story
Astraea's scales
the scales of justice
The scales watch for the question you've been deciding not to ask. What is this actually costing me, what does it actually weigh, which of these two things is heavier when I stop pretending they're the same. They can't make you put anything on the pans, that was always the deal, the goddess left and took the enforcement with her. But they're hanging there, level and ready, and the weighing is quicker than the dreading of it.
The measuring is faster than the dreading, put the thing on the pan.
- Constellation
- Libra
- Sky at draw
- below the horizon at the draw
- Drawn
- Sun, Oct 25, 6:05 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