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
Callisto
the great bear
Hera's punishments always found the wrong target. It was her husband who came deceitful to Callisto, wearing the shape of Artemis herself, but it was the nymph who woke with fur and claws and a voice that could only roar. And when Zeus finally hung mother and son in the north, Hera went to the ocean with one last request, never let those stars bathe in the sea. So the great bear never sets. Meant as an exile, it reads as a promise. Some souls the dark just doesn't get to keep.
What was meant as your exile can become your permanence.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- In your sky now
- 41° up · 36° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 12:01 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