The Pleiades
BehenianEta Tauri (Alcyone) · Taurus
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Position (2026)
♊ 0°21′ Gemini
Magnitude
2.85
Planetary Nature
Moon / Mars (Robson)
Alvidas: Mars / Moon / Sun (Mars, Moon and Sun in opposition)
Spectral Type
B7III
Appearance
A blue-white open cluster on the shoulder of the Bull, with six to seven stars visible to the unaided eye
Behenian Correspondences
Gemstone
Rock crystal
Plant
Fennel
Read: The 15 Behenian Stars → background on Agrippa's list, the magical tradition, and how each star was historically used.
Name Origin
Language
Greek
Original Form
Πλειάδες (Pleiades)
Meaning
Debated: possibly from πλεῖν (to sail) marking the sailing season, or from πλέος (full, many)
Allen notes the name has been explained as from the Greek for 'to sail,' because their heliacal rising in May opened the ancient sailing season, and their setting in November closed it. Others derive it from πλέος meaning 'full' or 'many.' The mythological derivation from Pleione, mother of the seven daughters of Atlas, is also ancient. The Arabic Al Thurayya (the Many Little Ones) became the basis for the star's use as a test of eyesight.
Known As
Seven sisters gather on the Bull's shoulder, with Alcyone their principal star. Daughters of Atlas and Pleione, they escaped Orion's pursuit by being taken into heaven. Their stories also include grief, with Electra withdrawing her light after the destruction of the city her son founded. The old delineations give the Pleiades pleasure in company and a biting wit, with close attention to appearance and approval. Alcyone adds inner vision and the danger of harsh judgment. Perception has both warmth and sharpness here. A quick understanding of another person can become a joke at their expense when an audience's attention matters more than their discomfort.
The Pleiades can be funny company. Manilius pictures people who enjoy a banquet and know how to make the room laugh with a sharp remark. They take care over their appearance. Firmicus describes much the same company with considerably less affection. [6] [7] With the cluster prominent, you notice who is amused and who has gone quiet. Social intelligence includes knowing when the joke has cost someone too much.
Brady's Alcyone has insight, with a tendency toward harsh judgment; Robson allows ambition and success through active intelligence even in his severe account. [9] [3] A perceptive remark can help someone see their situation. It can also humiliate them in front of their friends. Being quick to understand another person gives you a choice about how to use what you see.
The Pleiades by birth year
On 1 January 2026, The Pleiades stood at ♊ 0°21′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac.
It entered Gemini in November 2000.
Positions are for 1 January of each year; a star moves about 50 arcseconds a year, so a birth late in the decade sits close to the next row.
| Born in | Position |
|---|---|
| 1900 | ♉ 28°36′ Taurus |
| 1910 | ♉ 28°44′ Taurus |
| 1920 | ♉ 28°53′ Taurus |
| 1930 | ♉ 29°01′ Taurus |
| 1940 | ♉ 29°09′ Taurus |
| 1950 | ♉ 29°18′ Taurus |
| 1960 | ♉ 29°26′ Taurus |
| 1970 | ♉ 29°34′ Taurus |
| 1980 | ♉ 29°43′ Taurus |
| 1990 | ♉ 29°51′ Taurus |
| 2000 | ♉ 29°59′ Taurus |
| 2010 | ♊ 0°08′ Gemini |
| 2020 | ♊ 0°16′ Gemini |
| 2030 | ♊ 0°25′ Gemini |
From latitudes poleward of 65.8° S it never rises, and from latitudes poleward of 65.8° N it never sets (geometric horizon, refraction ignored).
Computed by the Augurine engine on the apparent equinox of date from HYG coordinates with proper motion applied (engine build 1c1cc33).
The Pleiades at the banquet
Manilius gives the Pleiades a rising delineation at the sixth degree of Taurus in Book V. He describes pleasure in feasting and sex. His people look elegant and have a biting wit. Firmicus's VIII.7 repeats the pleasures and goes into dress in detail, from perfume to carefully arranged hair. He particularly dislikes the desire for flattery and the habit of making companions the target of jokes. [6] [7] Their people enjoy company and work at being noticed within it.
Firmicus moralizes about gender and adornment. His attention to appearance and approval also describes the effort of staying amusing or looking right. [7] With Alcyone rising, being good company can take work. You read the room quickly, then adjust to keep its attention. Wit turns cruel when keeping that attention matters more than the companion who has become the joke.
Brady warns about harsh judgment, especially confidence in what you believe you see in someone else. [9] Check an impression before turning it into a joke or a judgment. Give the other person room to answer.
The Pleiades between Moon-Jupiter and Moon-Mars
those in the Pleiades, like those of the moon and Jupiter
Ptolemy gives the cluster Moon and Jupiter in Robbins's translation. Hephaistio gives the Moon and Ares, or Mars. Robson calls Moon and Mars Ptolemy's mixture, and Brady repeats that attribution in her account of earlier opinions. [1] [2] [3] [9] The authors disagree. Under Moon and Jupiter, read the generous enjoyment of company in Manilius. Under Moon and Mars, read the readiness to quarrel and the sharpness in Robson and Firmicus. The rest of the chart helps distinguish pleasure in company from the impulse to compete with it.
Influence. According to Ptolemy they are of the nature of the Moon and Mars; and, to Alvidas, of Mars, Moon and Sun in opposition. They are said to make their natives wanton, ambitious, turbulent, optimistic and peaceful; to give many journeys and voyages, success in agriculture and through active intelligence; and to cause blindness, disgrace and a violent death.
Robson allows peacefulness alongside turbulence and successful work alongside loss. His bodily threats belong to an old predictive register, weighed here as tendencies and themes against the whole chart. Productive intelligence is also part of his account. [3] Look for where you notice something that other people have yet to act on, then do the work it requires.
Alcyone's perception in pride and affection
With Alcyone on your Sun, pride in being perceptive makes it hard to have your judgment questioned. With the Moon, a feeling about someone quickly becomes a settled opinion. These readings extend Brady's account of vision and judgment to the luminaries. [9] Robson's Sun and Moon entries describe bodily injury and disgrace; the Anonymous of 379 also treats the Pleiades as harmful to eyesight. [3] [5] Give a first impression time before deciding what it means.
With Mercury, you may have an explanation ready before everyone else has finished describing the problem. Robson lists business failure and losses through legal affairs; Brady gives Freud as an example, born on a day when Alcyone culminated with Mercury. [3] [9] Confidence in your interpretation needs room for another fact. Revise the explanation when the facts require it. In business, check it against what happened before making the next decision.
With Venus, Robson emphasizes strong passions and loss, while Brady reports Leonardo da Vinci's Venus setting as Alcyone set. [3] [9] You have an eye for what you value, and attraction readily becomes an assessment of someone else's worth. The pleasure in company described by Manilius and Firmicus belongs here too. [6] [7] Enjoyment and good taste make relationships easier; constant appraisal makes a companion feel examined. Admiration needs to leave room for the person to be ordinary.
Robson's Mars list runs to accidents and fire. Brady's Mars example is Kant, with Mars setting while Alcyone was at the nadir. [3] [9] With Mars, quick judgment becomes decisive action. Pause to check what convinced you to act. Robson gives Jupiter legal and ecclesiastical troubles, and his Saturn begins with caution and ends with losses. [3] With Jupiter, conviction becomes a problem when you believe your position excuses your conduct. With Saturn, caution helps you investigate, but it also tempts you to reject an unfamiliar possibility before hearing it out.
On the Ascendant, read the attention to appearance and companions in Manilius and Firmicus. [6] [7] You want to be seen at your best, and an approving audience makes it tempting to keep a joke going after its target has stopped laughing. At the Midheaven, Robson describes military captains and commanders when the luminaries join the configuration. [3] With authority over others, your judgment has consequences for people who have little power to disagree. Brady's warning about harsh judgment applies directly to that imbalance. [9] Hear the person affected before deciding for them.
The Pleiades lamp and the question of sight
The Anonymous of 379 puts the Pleiades in an eyesight list, outside the thirty-star roster. Valens describes a person's blindness through the Pleiades and Saturn, and Brennan identifies Valens's use of the cluster within Taurus as a sidereal consideration. [5] [8] [11] These writers meant bodily sight. Brady makes a later interpretive move when she proposes inner vision and connects Alcyone with the Fates and judgment of the dead. [9]
Robson also attributes strengthened eyesight to a magical image. Under Magical Influences of Fixed Stars, he prescribes a little virgin or a lamp for the Pleiades, with crystal and fennel among its materials. [3] His talismanic use differs from his natal predictions. Brady's inner vision is a separate interpretation again. [9] Keep physical sight and insight distinct when explaining the older accounts to someone worried about a conjunction.
Pleione's daughters and the harvest year
The sisters are daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Robson. He gives their escape from Orion as one account of their ascent to heaven, and grief at Atlas's burden as another. Allen names Aeschylus when he records the grief story. [3] [4]
Allen prefers Pleione as the origin of the name Pleiades. He considers a derivation meaning full or many more convincing than the familiar sailing explanation, which he judges an afterthought. He connects the Arabic Al Thurayya, the Many Little Ones, with abundance through the cluster's appearance or the accompanying rains. For Alcyone individually, he records Al Wasat, the Central One, and the Babylonian Temennu, the Foundation Stone. [4]
Richard L. Kremer discusses Hesiod's instruction to harvest at the Pleiades' rising and plow at their setting. [10] Robson also includes agriculture and active intelligence in his description. [3] People watched for the cluster because there was a field to work and a season to catch.
Alcyone at the beginning of Gemini
Robson recommends Alcyone, Eta Tauri, as the principal star for locating the Pleiades in a chart. [3] Alcyone entered tropical Gemini in November 2000. Robson placed it at 28°52′ Taurus in 1920; in 2026 it is at 0°21′ Gemini. [3] Precession moves the tropical degree while the Seven Sisters remain on the Bull's shoulder.
Use the degree for the birth year. A chart from 1990 places Alcyone at about 29°51′ Taurus, while a chart from 2010 places it at about 0°08′ Gemini. Augurine's calculator uses a 1° conjunction orb for Alcyone. Check the dated position before treating a planet at the start of Gemini as a conjunction.
Orion's pursuit and the missing sister among the Pleiades
Orion pursued the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, who were companions of Diana. They escaped him by being taken into heaven. Robson also tells of their ascent in grief for Atlas, who was condemned to bear the heavens on his head and hands. [3]
Merope married the mortal Sisyphus. Her sisters had married gods, and she hid her face in shame at being the only one whose husband was mortal. Her hidden face accounts for the lost light among the seven sisters in this version of the story. [3]
Electra withdrew her light for a different reason. Her son Dardanos had founded Ilium, and she grieved when the city was destroyed. Robson gives her as another identity for the missing sister. The family remains on the Bull's shoulder, with Alcyone its principal star and Atlas and Pleione beside their daughters. [3]
How the authors read The Pleiades
| Source | Nature | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 1.9 | Moon and Jupiter | Ptolemy gives Moon and Jupiter to the stars in the Pleiades in Robbins's translation. [1] |
| Hephaistio, Apotelesmatics 1.3 | Moon and Mars | Hephaistio gives the Moon and Ares, or Mars, a sharper mixture than Ptolemy's in Robbins. [2] [1] |
| Anonymous of 379 | no planetary mixture given | The Anonymous includes the cluster in an eyesight list, outside the thirty-star roster, without assigning it a planetary mixture. [5] |
| Vivian Robson | Moon and Mars | Robson combines ambition and active intelligence with severe adverse judgments. His separate Alcyone entry also includes love and eminence. [3] |
| Bernadette Brady | no planetary mixture given | Brady proposes inner vision through the contacted planet and warns about harsh judgment. [9] |
| Firmicus, Mathesis VIII.7 | no planetary mixture given | Firmicus's rising Pleiades enjoys luxury and sarcastic wit, with considerable attention to appearance and approval. [7] |
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →The Pleiades Conjunct Sun
When others rely on your assessment, being perceptive becomes a point of pride. Robson's Sun entry emphasizes bodily harm and disgrace in the language of 1923. Brady's later account of insight and harsh judgment puts that pride under scrutiny. With the Sun, consider how much of your self-respect depends on having understood a situation first. A correction can feel personal even when it improves the explanation. The test is whether changing your mind requires you to diminish the person who corrected you.
The Pleiades Conjunct Moon
Before you have examined a first impression, it already feels settled. Robson's Moon entry treats injury and eyesight literally; Brady develops a later reading of inner vision and the risk of harsh judgment. Read the Moon through the feeling that tells you someone is safe or unwelcome. That feeling deserves attention, but it may need revision as the relationship develops. At home, leave enough room for a familiar person to behave differently from the role you have come to expect.
The Pleiades Conjunct Mercury
You have an explanation ready before another person's account has been heard. Robson lists business failure and losses through legal affairs. In Freud's Mercury paran, Brady reads insight in adult work alongside a capacity for harsh judgment. For the conjunction, examine how you arrive at an interpretation and what persuades you to revise it. When making a decision, a perceptive account has to survive comparison with the facts as they emerge.
The Pleiades Conjunct Venus
An exact picture of the person you want leaves affection subject to constant appraisal. Robson emphasizes strong passions and loss; Brady connects Leonardo's Venus paran with the art and mystery of his work. An eye for what attracts you and the pleasure of giving it form are central here. That can support artistic attention or enjoyment of company. In a relationship, admiration needs space for the other person's ordinary preferences, including the ones that do not fit your first impression.
The Pleiades Conjunct Mars
Acting on an impression is the point at which perception becomes consequential. Robson lists accidents and losses through fire, while Brady's Mars reading allows both idealism without follow-through and sustained attention to difficult philosophical questions. Turning an ideal into action is the concern here. Before committing effort, examine the assumption that made the goal seem necessary. A clear purpose can sustain patient investigation; a quick assessment of another person may send that same determination into an avoidable quarrel.
The Pleiades Conjunct Jupiter
When you are certain what is right, hearing a disagreement takes effort. Robson gives legal and religious troubles, with losses through relatives. Read Jupiter through the explanation you use to justify a decision, particularly when family or an institution expects agreement. Insight can widen your understanding of the problem; conviction can also make another person's circumstances seem irrelevant. The principle faces its test when you apply it to someone whose experience differs from yours.
The Pleiades Conjunct Saturn
Caution earns its place when it leads to a closer examination. Robson begins his Saturn entry with caution and includes substantial losses and family difficulties. The standards you use to accept or reject a possibility need scrutiny here. Experience may help you notice a weakness early, yet you may come to trust familiarity as the only test. A patient inquiry has room for an unfamiliar answer. The distinction matters when your assessment determines whether another person's work gets a hearing.
The Pleiades Conjunct Uranus
A discovery unsettles the explanation you had considered complete. Robson gives an active mind and occult interests alongside sudden losses and difficulties with close relationships. Curiosity about a discovery can open a line of inquiry, while the excitement of finding something unusual can outrun careful checking. The new idea needs sustained attention if the initial curiosity is to develop into understanding. Give it enough time to show where it works before reorganizing your commitments around it.
The Pleiades Conjunct Neptune
Behind an impressive presentation, the terms of an opportunity still need scrutiny. Robson's Neptune entry combines boldness and advancement with help from friends, then introduces secretive work and possible losses late in life. Read the conjunction through how clearly you understand an arrangement you want to join. Admiration can make missing details easy to overlook. An awkward question about the arrangement belongs before the commitment, while you still have room to choose your involvement.
The Pleiades Conjunct Pluto
With an explanation for every motive, you risk deciding the terms of the relationship alone. You may feel an urge to understand what is concealed, then gain confidence from a persuasive explanation. Alcyone's concern with insight becomes difficult when a person has no way to correct your account of them. The work is to examine your own investment in the explanation. Both people need room to name what has been misunderstood and have that correction heard.
The Pleiades Conjunct North Node
Choosing a direction repeatedly puts your first impression to the test. With Alcyone's emphasis on perception, the Node reading concerns situations that ask you to understand before deciding. You may recognize a preference for being the person who sees what is happening quickly. Let that interest develop through listening and study. A commitment gives that curiosity something substantial to investigate. Contact with other people tests the conclusions that study alone leaves unchallenged.
The Pleiades Conjunct Ascendant
At a first meeting, your wit and appearance do much of the work. Manilius describes pleasure in elegant company; Firmicus describes the same appetite for pleasure more critically, especially jokes at a companion's expense. Robson's rising list adds quarrels and advancement to its severe bodily warnings. The effort you put into being engaging matters here, as does the response you want from others. A quick remark can make a room easier to join, provided its target has room to answer.
The Pleiades Conjunct Midheaven
Assessing other people becomes more consequential when your position gives you authority over them. Robson's culmination entry is severe, but adds military command when the luminaries join the configuration. Brady's concern with harsh judgment makes a practical career reading possible. Examine how you reach decisions about someone's competence and whether they have a chance to explain their work. Perception earns trust through the fairness of the process, especially when you are deciding what another person gets to do next.
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
Pride in understanding people puts weight on your first opportunities to use perception and on how you respond when someone corrects you.
Culminating
Recognition rests on your judgment when your work reaches its widest audience. The ability to reconsider an assessment matters as much as a quick initial insight.
Setting
Being perceptive becomes part of an identity that a later partnership can challenge. Shared decisions work better when another person's account can change your understanding.
At the Nadir
The wish to understand sustains private work over a lifetime. Its eventual value depends on questions left open long enough to receive an unexpected answer.
The Pleiades in Paran with Moon
Rising
Instinctive assessments of people may form early and persist. Emotional security depends partly on having room to change a first impression.
Culminating
Caring for others in a public role tests intuitive understanding at the height of responsibility. The person concerned needs room to correct your impression of their needs.
Setting
Someone close has changed, but the familiar reaction persists. Mature relationships need room to reconsider emotional expectations built up over years.
At the Nadir
Assumptions about family quietly shape how people are understood at home. Late-life reflection may make an old family story less certain and more open to inquiry.
The Pleiades in Paran with Mercury
Rising
A quick reply attracts attention among your first companions. Wit helps people understand one another until it leaves someone with no room to answer.
Culminating
Brady reads Freud's Mercury culmination through insight, with harsh judgment as a recurring difficulty. Ideas and writing receive their fullest expression in adult work.
Setting
An explanation that once seemed sufficient needs revision as the conversation develops over years. A sustained exchange has more to teach than another quickly offered interpretation.
At the Nadir
Inquiry pursued privately may leave a substantial body of writing. Later readers can develop its ideas further when the account explains how its conclusions were reached.
The Pleiades in Paran with Venus
Rising
With an exact eye for form, early attention turns toward beauty. Creative interests need practice and room to enjoy what resists immediate explanation.
Culminating
Artistic perception becomes professionally visible in the middle years. Personal preferences must become work that other people can encounter on their own terms.
Setting
Brady's Leonardo example links Venus and Alcyone setting with mystery in his drawings and paintings. Artistic insight acquires its mature expression over time.
At the Nadir
Affection and private creative work can preserve a particular way of seeing. Their later value may lie in attention given without a demand for public approval.
The Pleiades in Paran with Mars
Rising
An absorbing ideal directs effort or delays your first attempts while it remains abstract. Brady's Mars reading asks what turns a compelling question into sustained work.
Culminating
A quick assessment becomes consequential when your position lets you act on it. At the public height of work, check the assumption before committing others to the result.
Setting
Effort in the later years can concentrate on a question left unfinished. A mature commitment needs a defined task as well as an ideal worth pursuing.
At the Nadir
In Brady's Kant example, Mars sets with Alcyone at the nadir. Philosophical inquiry pursued in private has the scope to become a life's work.
The Pleiades in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
The desire for larger meaning shapes your first convictions. They encourage inquiry or settle the answer before investigation begins.
Culminating
Your opinions reach further when teaching or institutional responsibility gives them public authority. A confident explanation needs scrutiny for whose experience it leaves out.
Setting
Established beliefs receive a more generous hearing as encounters accumulate. Partnership asks whether understanding another person's circumstances matters more than securing their agreement.
At the Nadir
A philosophy develops through years of private inquiry. What remains for others is an approach to understanding that they can question and develop further.
The Pleiades in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Standards learned early can sharpen discernment or encourage premature rejection. Caution earns its place when it prompts a closer look at something unfamiliar.
Culminating
Professional authority rests on careful assessment at the height of responsibility. Experience needs to remain a reason to investigate rather than a reason to stop listening.
Setting
People facing difficult choices have use for your experience. Later responsibility includes recognizing when an old standard needs revision to fit present circumstances.
At the Nadir
Judgments made patiently in private support enduring work. The standards you leave others need to hold up after the circumstances that formed them have changed.
The Pleiades in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Pleasure in company has a lasting place from childhood onward. Manilius and Firmicus both describe that pleasure, with attention to appearance and biting wit.
Culminating
Personal judgment has lifelong emphasis with the star angular at birth. Its public expression asks how readily you let another person correct an impression.
Setting
Companionship gives a lasting setting for your wit, with particular weight in later life. A perceptive remark works best when both people can enjoy the exchange.
At the Nadir
The way you understand people begins in private assumptions and persists through life. Late reflection can reveal where a familiar assessment has become too narrow.
The Pleiades in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
A discerning eye shapes your first choice of public work. In Brady's birth-angle reading, this emphasis continues as experience changes the work you choose.
Culminating
Judgment exercised in public can define a lasting vocation. Authority makes fairness especially consequential when an assessment decides another person's opportunities.
Setting
Colleagues revise explanations that once secured your reputation. A lifelong habit of inquiry needs to include their revisions as your professional relationships mature.
At the Nadir
Decisions made outside public attention shape your reputation over time. The opportunities your assessments gave or denied to others have lasting professional consequences.
Star Connections
Regulus and the seventh-house luminaries
Robson gives an eyesight warning for the Sun conjunct the Pleiades in the seventh house, especially with Saturn or Mars conjunct Regulus. His Moon version likewise places the conjunction in the seventh, with extra emphasis when Saturn or Mars conjoins Regulus and the Moon is combust, close to the Sun. Separately, Mars conjunct the Pleiades with Saturn conjunct Regulus receives a violent prediction. Those are literal bodily forecasts in his 1923 register. The working reading considers how readily confidence becomes harsh judgment, particularly when acting on an impression could affect someone else's position. Leave room for correction before committing to the decision.
Notable Charts
Sigmund Freud
Mercury culminating with Alcyone, a paran
Brady connects this contact with insight and judgment in Freud's ideas and writing during adulthood. [9]
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Pleiades conjunct the Sun mean?
With Alcyone on your Sun, pride in being perceptive makes it hard to have your judgment questioned. This extends Brady's interpretation of insight through the contacted planet. [9] Let someone finish explaining before defending your first impression; reconsidering it leaves you better informed.
Why do the Pleiades have both eyesight warnings and a lamp image?
Robson treats them differently in natal astrology and magic. His natal account includes bodily harm, while his image of a little virgin or a lamp has strengthened eyesight among its intended uses. [3] Brady's inner vision is a later interpretation. [9] The older authors were writing about physical sight.
Why do Manilius and Firmicus describe the Pleiades at a banquet?
Both authors describe people who enjoy company and take care over their appearance, with biting humor among their social habits. [6] [7] Manilius writes with more affection; Firmicus disapproves of flattery and of making companions the target of jokes. In a rising-star reading, notice what happens when keeping the room's attention takes priority over treating a companion well.
What does the name The Pleiades mean?
The name The Pleiades comes from Greek: Πλειάδες (Pleiades), meaning "Debated: possibly from πλεῖν (to sail) marking the sailing season, or from πλέος (full, many)." Allen notes the name has been explained as from the Greek for 'to sail,' because their heliacal rising in May opened the ancient sailing season, and their setting in November closed it. The star is known by 13 different cultural names across world traditions.
Sources
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, translated by Frank Egleston Robbins, 1940. Used for the Moon/Jupiter nature in the Taurus constellation discussion.
- Hephaistio of Thebes, Apotelesmatics, Book I, translated by Robert Schmidt, The Golden Hind Press, 1994. Used for the Moon/Ares mixture in Book 1.3.
- Vivian E. Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1923. Used for the Alcyone and Pleiades entries with their 1920 longitude and Magical Influences of Fixed Stars.
Text of the 1923 edition; the site quotes a 2017 reprint.
- Richard Hinckley Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications, Inc., 1899. Used for Allen's name derivations and accounts of Alcyone and the Seven Sisters.
- Anonymous of 379, The Treatise on the Bright Fixed Stars, translated by Robert Schmidt, The Golden Hind Press, 1993. Used for the historical eye-damage list.
- Marcus Manilius, Astronomica, translated by G. P. Goold, Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. Used for the Book V rising delineation.
- Firmicus Maternus, Ancient Astrology: Theory and Practice, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Noyes Press, 1975. Used for the explicitly named Pleiades rising treatment in VIII.7.
- Vettius Valens, Anthologies, translated by Mark T. Riley, 2010. Used for the bodily meaning of the historical Pleiades and Saturn example.
- Bernadette Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998. Used for the interpretation of Alcyone and the reported natal paran examples.
- Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg (editors), Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. Used for Richard L. Kremer's discussion of Hesiod's agricultural calendar.
- Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune, Amor Fati Publications, 2017. Used for the sidereal context of Valens's Pleiades interpretation.
Lunar Mansions
The Pleiades serves as the determinant star for these 3 lunar mansions across different traditions.
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