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
Orpheus
the singer's lyre
After the maenads tore Orpheus apart, the lyre went into the river. It should have sunk. Instead it floated, strings up, and it kept playing, no hands, no singer, the current doing the strumming, the whole length of the water one long last song. The gods caught it before the sea could have it, and set it in the summer sky with Vega burning at its frame. It is still up there. It is still playing.
Keep singing after the loss, the key changes but the voice is yours.
- Constellation
- Lyra
- In your sky now
- 1° up · 320° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 8:30 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