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 bull
The air was sweet with meadow flowers, the sun warm on her skin. She laughed, braiding blossoms into the bull's snow-white fur. Then, a sudden lurch, a cold spray, the shoreline shrinking. The gentle beast became a current, pulling, carrying her through the salt-thick air, away from everything known. A king's daughter, now a prize, a new land waiting, etched into the horizon, her journey a forced grace, held beneath the starry gaze of the weeping daughters in his chest.
Notice what you're climbing onto before the shore gets small.
- Constellation
- Taurus
- In your sky now
- 69° up · 160° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 9:42 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