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
Lepus
the hare at Orion's feet
When the gods arranged that corner of the winter sky, they made a strange choice. They put the hare between the hunter's feet and his hounds, close enough to be afraid, far enough to keep running, and then they froze the distances. The dogs will never gain. The hare will never rest. It looks cruel until you see it from her side, the gods didn't set her up to be caught, they guaranteed she never would be. The chase is permanent. So is the escape.
You are ahead of the thing chasing you, you have been for a while.
- Constellation
- Lepus
- In your sky now
- 35° up · 170° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 10:31 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