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
Karkinos
the giant crab
Hera, still stung by the shame of him, cast her eye to the dark ocean floor. A whispered command found Karkinos, waiting, loyal, longing for purpose. To snap at a hero's heel, a small, sharp bite in the churning water and blood. Not glory, but a tiny offering to her vast, consuming rage. A small, doomed thing sent to claw at the edges of a legend. She watched it fall.
The small brave thing you did counted, even if the room didn't notice.
- Constellation
- Cancer
- In your sky now
- 48° up · 116° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 12:00 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