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
Castor and Pollux
the twins
Pollux was offered the whole of heaven and said no. Not without Castor. They had shared a mother, a boyhood, a thousand horses, a war or two, and one of them was mortal and one was not, which had never mattered until it suddenly did. Castor died the way mortals do. Pollux stood in front of Zeus with his immortality in his hands like a coat he wanted to give away. Half, he said. Give him half of mine. And Zeus, for once, did the kind thing.
You've been living like the untouchable one, check on your mortal half.
- Constellation
- Gemini
- In your sky now
- 75° up · 102° 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