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
Perseus
the hero with the mirror
From the rock where she was chained, Andromeda watched a speck come out of the sky wearing sandals with wings, carrying a bag he would not open and would not explain. Her parents had bargained her to a sea monster to pay for her mother's bragging, and here was a stranger who had just finished one impossible thing and had room in the day for another. He didn't ask what she'd done to deserve it. Nothing, is the answer. Some rescues are just a person refusing to keep walking. She married that.
Approach it sideways, some things can't be stared down.
- Constellation
- Perseus
- In your sky now
- 75° up · 23° on the compass
- Drawn
- Wed, Jul 8, 8:21 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