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
Zeus
the swan
After Phaethon fell burning out of the sky, a god who loved him walked the river looking for what was left. Up the bank and down, days of it, grief doing the only thing grief can do, which is keep moving. The other gods watched the walking until they couldn't anymore, and made him a swan so the searching could turn into swimming, and the swimming into something almost like rest. That's the other story this constellation holds. Not disguise. Devotion, wearing feathers.
Bring your real face to the thing you want, disguises get heavy.
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- In your sky now
- 0° up · 332° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:29 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