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
Laelaps
the hound that never lost
Laelaps never lost. Not once, not a rabbit, not a stag, the catching was in him like iron is in blood. Then they set him after the Teumessian fox, the fox that could never be caught, and for the first time the world's two rules faced each other across an open field. He ran. The fox ran. Neither could do otherwise, that's what being made a certain way means. Somewhere mid-stride the sky took them both. The hound is still running up there, still certain, still right, and so is the fox.
Check whether the chase is yours or one you inherited, then run or stop accordingly.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- In your sky now
- 36° up · 169° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:41 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