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
Laelaps
the hound that never lost
Canis Major follows Orion across the winter sky the way a dog follows its person, close, patient, never asking why we're going this way. It watches for the pursuers, the people deep in a long chase, the goal that keeps moving, the almost that stays almost. The hound would tell you it isn't tragic. Running full-out after the thing you were made for is its own arrival, some days. Just make sure the chase is yours and not a curse somebody handed you. Then run like the ground loves your feet.
Being fully what you are is enough, even when the fox gets away.
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- In your sky now
- 37° up · 173° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:57 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