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
Delphin
Poseidon's matchmaker
She wasn't playing games. Amphitrite hid because a god's want is a heavy thing to be wanted by, and the deep water was the only quiet left. Then the dolphin came, small against all that dark, and didn't drag her, didn't argue. Just talked. About what, no story says, and maybe that's right, some persuasions are private. She rose on her own, in her own hour, and became queen of the very sea she'd been hiding in.
A gentle word will reach where insistence can't, lower your voice and try again.
- Constellation
- Delphinus
- In your sky now
- below the horizon now
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:50 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