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
Crotus
the centaur archer
Crotus the satyr, sometimes confused with Chiron, was the one the Muses asked for. He invented applause. He could shoot from horseback and from a cloud. The Muses begged Zeus to put him in the sky and he did. An archer aimed at Scorpio for all time.
You can stand guard without firing, steadiness is its own arrow.
- Constellation
- Sagittarius
- In your sky now
- below the horizon now
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:43 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