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
Orpheus
the singer's lyre
Orpheus went down into the dark with nothing but a lyre and got further than any army ever had. Hades wept, the stones wept, the whole machinery of death paused to listen, and he still lost her at the last stair by looking back. That's the story everybody knows. Here's the part that matters more, he kept singing afterward. Grief didn't take the music, it changed the key. The songs from after are the ones the trees pulled up their roots to follow.
Don't look back to check if it's following, that's the one rule.
- Constellation
- Lyra
- In your sky now
- 62° up · 74° on the compass
- Drawn
- Tue, Jul 7, 9:52 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