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
Perseus
the hero with the mirror
He couldn't look at her, so he looked at her reflection, bronze polished until it held the whole cave, the sleeping shape, the snakes moving even in her sleep. Perseus learned something in there that outlasted the sword-stroke, that some truths can only be approached sideways, at an angle, in a mirror, or they turn you hard as stone. He took the head, folded it into the bag, and flew. He didn't gloat. Careful men don't. He just went home the long way and unchained a girl from a rock as he passed.
Approach it sideways, some things can't be stared down.
- Constellation
- Perseus
- In your sky now
- 72° up · 36° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 7:51 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