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
Orion
the hunter
Artemis tells it two ways, and she is allowed to. In one, she sent the scorpion herself, because the hunter had gone too far. In the other, her brother Apollo tricked her, and the killing was never what she wanted. Either way there was grief after, the kind that wants to undo itself and can't. So there are stars. He got the whole width of winter, belt and sword and both bright shoulders. Grief that big needed a sky to put itself in.
You're easier to find than you think, someone is already looking.
- Constellation
- Orion
- In your sky now
- 60° up · 196° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 12:01 PM
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