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
Cepheus
the helpless king
Here is a father the old stories are hard on, and fair enough, he let them chain his girl to a rock. But sit with him a moment. Between a wife he loved and couldn't govern and a daughter he loved and couldn't save, Cepheus stood in the middle of his own house like a man in a doorway during an earthquake, holding the frame, holding nothing. Andromeda forgave him, the stories say, which may have been the heaviest thing he ever carried. Forgiveness lands harder than blame some days. He carried it. That counts.
The middle of a family argument is a real place, pack accordingly and rest when you can.
- Constellation
- Cepheus
- In your sky now
- 26° up · 330° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 9:49 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