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
Arcas grew up motherless, told a story with holes in it, and became what boys like that often become, a hunter. In the woods one day, a bear came toward him instead of away, upright, arms open, eyes wrong for a bear, and he did the trained thing and drew. What do you call the second before a catastrophe that never lands? Zeus caught them both, hunter and hunted, mother and son, and set them turning in the north together. Every family has a clearing like that. Not every family gets caught in time.
You are bigger than the part of you people recognize.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- In your sky now
- 19° up · 26° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 8:39 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