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
Korax
Apollo's raven
The white raven, sent for pure water, saw figs, ripe and sweet. A moment of earthly longing, a taste of forbidden fruit. He forgot the task, forgot the thirst waiting. A small detour, a grand mistake, staining his brilliant white. Now, forever black, he gazes at the distant cup, eternally parched, forever reaching for a pure sip he delayed.
Sit with it for a moment. Where does this old story echo in your own week, the same boast, the same crossing, the same rescue arriving at the wrong moment and turning it right?
- Constellation
- Corvus
- In your sky now
- 3° up · 113° on the compass
- Drawn
- Tue, Jul 7, 1:10 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