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
Castor and Pollux
the twins
The twin brothers, one born to the dust, the other to the stars. When Castor’s breath left him, a mortal hush falling, Pollux, immortal, could not bear the silence. He clung to his fading brother, a knot of sorrow refusing the golden gates. Zeus, moved by such a raw, untamed love, split their days. One in the velvet dark of Hades, one in the bright, burning sun. Always together, half-seen, at the seam of day and night, their hands still reaching.
Someone would split their days with you, let them.
- Constellation
- Gemini
- In your sky now
- 75° up · 102° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 12:01 PM
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