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
Callisto
the great bear
Seven bright stars make the dipper, and the dipper is only her hips and tail, the bear is bigger than what most people learn to see. She never sets. All night, every night of the year, Callisto wheels around the pole with her son nearby, and she watches for mothers, the exhausted ones, the transformed ones, the ones who can't say what happened in words their children would understand. Being changed by what someone did to you is not the end of the story. She is the proof, turning, permanent, impossible to put out.
You are bigger than the part of you people recognize.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- In your sky now
- 9° up · 353° on the compass
- Drawn
- Fri, Jul 17, 3:03 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