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
Arcas
the bear-driver
Arcas almost killed his own mother, Callisto, who had been turned into a bear and could not say it was her. Zeus pulled them both up into the sky at the last moment. Boötes walks behind Ursa Major still, close, never catching her, finally safe.
The disaster that didn't happen deserves a quiet thank-you tonight.
- Constellation
- Boötes
- In your sky now
- below the horizon now
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 8:47 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