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
Skorpios
the scorpion
The gods had a scheduling problem, two enemies and one sky. Whether Artemis sent the scorpion, or Apollo tricked her into it, or Earth grew it out of her own ground, the ending was identical, a dead hunter, a dead scorpion, and a grief that wanted both remembered. So they were placed like quarreling relatives at a long table, as far apart as the wheel allows. Summer belongs to the sting, winter to the belt, and the year turns politely between them. Some fights are not resolved. They are just given room.
Let the old fight have its room without living in it.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- In your sky now
- below the horizon now
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 11:33 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