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
The hound, Laelaps, a ghost of muscle and relentless want, forever tasting the wind where the fox once was. He would always catch, yet she would always evade. The dark velvet of the night holds this ceaseless hunger, a stretch of bone and desperate flight. Two beings caught in the exquisite agony of desire, pulling at the thread of what it means to be endlessly almost there, a breath always just out of reach.
Being fully what you are is enough, even when the fox gets away.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- In your sky now
- 37° up · 172° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:54 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