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
Once, Callisto was a wood nymph, sworn to the wild huntress. But Zeus, ever hungry, wore Artemis's soft face, and then the world fractured. Hera, all ice and fury, warped her, a she-bear roaming, her son Arcas growing up apart. Now, she hangs, a glittering pot in the night sky, forever visible, forever out of reach. We watch her circle, a silent ache, never quite setting, a perpetual longing for what was lost, what could have been.
You are bigger than the part of you people recognize.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- In your sky now
- 39° up · 36° 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