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
Astraea
the last just goddess
One bright star marks the wheat, the ear of grain, and the whole spring sky bends around it. When Astraea rose from the ruined Golden Age she kept two things, the scales, which hang beside her now, and the sheaf, the harvest of a world that had been kinder once. Grain is a promise by nature. You bury it, it comes back. That's why she carries it instead of a sword or a torch. She is not memorializing the kind world. She is holding the seed of the next one.
The kinder world returns in grains, be one today.
- Constellation
- Virgo
- In your sky now
- 4° up · 253° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 12:06 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