The Pleiades
BehenianEta Tauri (Alcyone) · Taurus
Position (2026)
♊ 0°22' Gemini
Magnitude
2.85
Planetary Nature
Moon / Mars (robson)
Spectral Type
B7III
The Pleiades in Astrology
The Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, carry themes of grief, mystical knowing, and collective consciousness. They bestow sensitivity to group dynamics, an awareness of loss as a teacher, and connection to something larger than the individual self. Their Moon-Mars nature combines receptive intuition with protective instinct, creating individuals who feel deeply and act on behalf of the group. The Pleiades grant artistic sensitivity, psychic receptivity, and a bittersweet wisdom that acknowledges both the beauty and the sorrow of embodied existence.
Natal Conjunctions
The Pleiades Conjunct Sun
The Pleiades conjunct the Sun create a personality attuned to collective currents and the emotional undercurrents of groups. The individual carries an awareness of shared human sorrow and possesses a natural empathic sensitivity. Identity is bound up with something larger than the personal self, and the native often serves as a vessel for collective emotional expression.
The Pleiades Conjunct Moon
The Pleiades conjunct the Moon amplify emotional sensitivity to extraordinary levels. The native absorbs the feelings of those around them and possesses an intuitive understanding of grief, longing, and the cycles of loss and renewal. Dreams are vivid and often prophetic, and the inner life resonates with ancestral and collective themes.
The Pleiades Conjunct Mercury
The Pleiades conjunct Mercury bestow a mind attuned to subtle emotional currents and unspoken communications. The native perceives what lies between the words and processes information through feeling as much as thought. Writing and speech carry an evocative, poetic quality that touches others at emotional depths.
The Pleiades Conjunct Venus
The Pleiades conjunct Venus create a refined aesthetic sensibility tinged with melancholy and longing. The native is drawn to beauty that carries an element of sorrow, the ephemeral, the bittersweet, the achingly lovely. Artistic expression is deeply emotional and often connects to themes of love, loss, and remembrance.
The Pleiades Conjunct Mars
The Pleiades conjunct Mars channel protective instincts toward groups, communities, and the vulnerable. The native fights on behalf of the collective and possesses a fiery devotion to those they consider family. Aggression is activated by threats to the group, and the individual excels as a champion of communal welfare.
The Pleiades Conjunct Jupiter
The Pleiades conjunct Jupiter expand collective awareness into spiritual or philosophical dimensions. The native is drawn to traditions that honor the web of connection between beings and often becomes a teacher or guide who helps others understand their place within the greater whole.
The Pleiades Conjunct Saturn
The Pleiades conjunct Saturn crystallize the awareness of loss into structured wisdom. The native learns early that grief is a teacher and builds their character through disciplined engagement with sorrow. Over time, this produces a resilient, deeply empathic individual who serves as an anchor for others in times of collective difficulty.
The Pleiades Conjunct Uranus
The Pleiades conjunct Uranus electrify collective awareness, producing individuals who channel sudden intuitive breakthroughs about group dynamics and social evolution. The native often pioneers new forms of community or collective expression.
The Pleiades Conjunct Neptune
The Pleiades conjunct Neptune dissolve boundaries between self and collective, granting extraordinary psychic sensitivity and mystical awareness. The native accesses deep wells of communal feeling and may experience direct perception of the interconnected nature of all beings.
The Pleiades Conjunct Pluto
The Pleiades conjunct Pluto intensify collective themes to transformative levels. The native confronts group shadow material and serves as a catalyst for collective healing and renewal. Experiences of communal loss become vehicles for profound transformation.
The Pleiades Conjunct North Node
The Pleiades conjunct the North Node mark a destiny oriented toward service to the collective, channeling grief into wisdom and individual gifts into communal benefit.
The Pleiades Conjunct Ascendant
The Pleiades on the Ascendant bestow a soft, luminous quality to the personality, with an unmistakable air of sensitivity and otherworldly awareness. Others sense the native's empathic openness, and the life path involves visible engagement with group consciousness and collective emotional themes.
The Pleiades Conjunct Midheaven
The Pleiades on the Midheaven mark a career devoted to collective welfare, artistic expression of shared human experience, or spiritual service. Professional recognition comes through work that touches the emotional core of communities and speaks to universal themes of love and loss.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when The Pleiades and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
The Pleiades in Paran with Sun
Rising
The Pleiades rising with the Sun mark an individual born into acute awareness of collective emotional currents.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with the Sun place empathic leadership at the peak of public achievement.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with the Sun deepen collective wisdom over a lifetime of shared emotional experience.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with the Sun conceal vast reservoirs of collective feeling at the foundations of the psyche.
The Pleiades in Paran with Moon
Rising
The Pleiades rising with the Moon awaken exceptional emotional and psychic sensitivity from infancy.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with the Moon bring intuitive and empathic gifts to their fullest public expression.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with the Moon indicate deepening psychic receptivity and emotional wisdom in the mature years.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with the Moon harbor ancestral emotional memories that permeate the unconscious.
The Pleiades in Paran with Mercury
Rising
The Pleiades rising with Mercury bestow early facility with emotionally evocative language and intuitive communication.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with Mercury elevate poetic or empathic communication to career-defining prominence.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with Mercury deepen communicative sensitivity over time, with the most touching expressions arriving in maturity.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with Mercury process collective emotional information at subconscious levels of remarkable depth.
The Pleiades in Paran with Venus
Rising
The Pleiades rising with Venus initiate early experiences of beauty suffused with longing and emotional depth.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with Venus achieve recognition through art that captures the bittersweet essence of human connection.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with Venus bring enduring relationships defined by deep emotional bonding and shared sensitivity.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with Venus conceal profound aesthetic and emotional sensitivity beneath the surface of daily life.
The Pleiades in Paran with Mars
Rising
The Pleiades rising with Mars produce a fierce protector of the group from the earliest years.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with Mars achieve peak recognition through championing collective welfare and communal defense.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with Mars channel protective instincts into sustained service to community over a lifetime.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with Mars conceal fierce protective impulses that activate only when the group is threatened.
The Pleiades in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
The Pleiades rising with Jupiter expand collective awareness into spiritual purpose from the beginning of life.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with Jupiter achieve widest influence through teaching about interconnection and shared human experience.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with Jupiter bring expanding wisdom about collective life in the mature years.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with Jupiter build on hidden foundations of vast spiritual understanding of group consciousness.
The Pleiades in Paran with Saturn
Rising
The Pleiades rising with Saturn demand early engagement with loss, building resilience through youthful experiences of grief.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with Saturn achieve lasting authority as anchors of stability during collective difficulty.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with Saturn build an enduring legacy of structured wisdom about loss, community, and renewal.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with Saturn establish deep foundations of emotional resilience through disciplined engagement with sorrow.
The Pleiades in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
The Pleiades rising with the Ascendant imprint the personality with visible empathic sensitivity and collective attunement.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with the Ascendant project emotional and psychic sensitivity onto the broadest stage.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with the Ascendant attract others who recognize and are comforted by the native's empathic presence.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with the Ascendant ground identity in deep wells of collective feeling and ancestral memory.
The Pleiades in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
The Pleiades rising with the Midheaven launch a career defined by service to collective emotional and spiritual needs.
Culminating
The Pleiades culminating with the Midheaven represent the summit of professional achievement through collective healing or art.
Setting
The Pleiades setting with the Midheaven indicate a professional legacy of compassionate service that endures across generations.
At the Nadir
The Pleiades at the nadir with the Midheaven build career success on hidden foundations of profound emotional intelligence.
Behenian Correspondences
Gemstone
Rock crystal
Plant
Fennel
Mythology & History
The Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, are among the most universally recognized star clusters in human history. The Greeks named them after the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. The name may derive from the Greek plein, to sail, as their heliacal rising in May marked the opening of the Mediterranean sailing season. Nearly every culture on earth has mythology about this cluster: the Aboriginal Australians see them as a group of young women pursued by Orion, Japanese tradition calls them Subaru (united), and the Aztecs knew them as Tianquiztli, using their midnight zenith passage to time the New Fire ceremony.
As a Behenian star (represented by Alcyone, the brightest member), the Pleiades were associated with rock crystal and fennel in medieval stellar magic. Their astrological reputation has always been mixed: they confer distinction and ambition but carry a persistent association with sorrow, particularly grief related to loss. Ancient Greek poets described the sisters weeping for their father Atlas, condemned to hold up the sky, and this theme of grief beneath outward brilliance pervades their astrological meaning. The Pleiades were also among the most important agricultural markers in the ancient world, with their rising and setting governing planting and harvest across the Mediterranean.
Taurus Context
The Pleiades ride on the shoulder of Taurus the Bull, forming a distinctive cluster visible to the naked eye as a tiny, misty patch of light. Though part of the Taurus constellation, their mythology is distinct: they represent the seven sisters pursued across the sky by the hunter Orion, with the bull sometimes interpreted as their protector. The cluster's position near the ecliptic means planets frequently pass through or near it, making it one of the most active fixed star regions for astrological interpretation. Alcyone, the central and brightest star, serves as the representative for the entire group.
Notable Charts
Marilyn Monroe
Midheaven conjunct the Pleiades
Fame combined with deep, often hidden grief; the beautiful surface masking internal sorrow
Edgar Allan Poe
Sun conjunct the Pleiades
Creative genius pervaded by themes of loss, mourning, and the beauty found in melancholy
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the Pleiades mean in astrology?
The Pleiades cluster in Taurus is associated with collective sorrow, visionary experience, and sensitivity to group suffering. Traditionally linked to eyesight problems (metaphorical blindness to mundane reality), the Pleiades often appear prominently in charts of mystics, musicians, and those with acute sensitivity to the suffering of others.
What degree are the Pleiades at in 2026?
The Pleiades cluster center (Alcyone) is at approximately 0 degrees 23 minutes of Gemini in 2026. The cluster spans roughly one degree, so planets between 29 degrees Taurus and 1 degree Gemini are considered in conjunction.
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