Uranus Conjunct Alcyone of the Pleiades — The Weeping Star and the Gathering Place of Souls

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Today we're going to take a look at Uranus joining with one of the fixed stars of the Pleiades called Alcyone. We're going to talk about what that might mean for us over the next weeks ahead, as Uranus moves across this very first degree of Gemini, where it meets this beautiful, powerful fixed star with some really epic stories and significations related to it, not just from within the Hellenistic tradition, but really all across our planet.

Many different traditions have talked about the Pleiades and in particular, this powerful star at the center. So we're going to talk about that today and hopefully give you some really fun ways of thinking about this and what it might bring into our lives, what we might see collectively.

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I love this program. It's got a nice fixed star wheel. I'm going to show off today. So here you can see on the screen, we're at Tuesday, April 21 and whoops. No, we are not. I have it backed up to last week. We're at Tuesday, April 28. So Tuesday, April 28. And that, by the way, that is just being transparent. That's because I record a week in advance, and occasionally I forget to flip my real time clock over the following week anyway.

So as I'm writing this though, Uranus just about to, as I wrote this talk today, Uranus just about to enter Gemini, and I'm thinking a lot as we've just experienced this ingress, as to, you know, what this means for us, not just in terms of Uranus and Gemini, but in terms of the fact that as soon as it enters, it conjoins one of the more powerful fixed stars in ancient astrology, Alcyone.

Now sometimes you'll hear Western astrologers pronouncing it Alcyone. I think the Greek is more like Alkyone. But anyway, it is at zero Gemini. Uranus is at zero Gemini. Let's take this timeline forward a little bit so you can see how long Uranus is going to spend on this fixed star.

So the exact conjunction boils down to Saturday, May 2 at the end of this week. But then it will continue on, and as long as it's within about a degree, we're in the range of its expression. You could say symbolically, that takes us to about May 20 in terms of when it finally separates from a full degree. But if you give it even just about two degrees of separation, that takes us to about June 5.

And so, you know, we have some time now where the influence of this fixed star is going to be very prominent. I did a master class on fixed stars a few years ago, and this was one of the stars that we studied. I think that it's important to be familiar with fixed stars.

In ancient astrology, fixed stars were projected onto zodiacal longitude, meaning the degrees of the zodiac from their positions and their constellations. They were projected onto the degree points of the ecliptic, and when planets traversed those degrees, the influence of the star was thought to be tremendous, especially if it's a very powerful star. The more luminous, generally, the more powerful.

There were royal stars, all sorts of categories of stars. Alcyone is important mostly because it's the brightest star of the Pleiades. And the Pleiades had just a ton of mythology surrounding it in the ancient world. So what I want to do today is talk about what it might mean that our opening act from Uranus in Gemini includes a very powerful conjunction to a very potent fixed star.

So here is the story that most everyone is familiar with from within the Greek tradition. Greek, obviously, horoscopic astrology comes out of, it's often called Greek astrology, and it comes out of the Hellenistic world. So within that tradition, Alkyone is a very powerful fixed star in the cluster of stars referred to as the Pleiades.

You may know these stories, and you may, I don't know, some of you probably communicate with people from the Pleiades. I don't, but whatever magic you have, the Pleiades have been a subject of New Age fascination for a while. But the roots of the fascination that we have as humans with these stars date back thousands of years, all over the planet.

The Pleiades are the seven daughters of Atlas in ancient Greek astrology, and Atlas is condemned to hold up the heavens. I always think of it like, when I think of Atlas, I'm always thinking of like a gym bro that's forced to hold the world's longest deadlift or something. It always just feels terrible.

But the story is complicated. The seven daughters of Atlas, sometimes referred to as the Seven Sisters, their father's suffering becomes their sorrow. It's part of their legacy. They're thought of as suffering daughters of Atlas. And in some renderings of the story, they are the Pleiades, the seven sisters weeping for their father eternally.

In others, they're sometimes transformed into stars in certain stories out of grief, an eternal sort of memorial service that's eternal, and their sorrow is a memorialization of something that's pretty common. And then sometimes they go up into the stars to escape something. So those are some of the main trends that we see in terms of the storytelling.

So the Pleiades are often associated with collectives. We have a congregation of people, and they're a congregation of sisters, sometimes associated with sorrow and weeping. A gathering point for weeping and sorrow is something that the Pleiades have often been associated with, among other things.

There's another myth around Halcyon. Halcyon, I think that's how it's pronounced. Alcyone and her husband are transformed into birds during the Halcyon days, and the seas become calm so that she can nest. So interestingly, the Tarot card that's coming to my mind is the four of swords.

In the four of swords, the Pleiades remind me quite a bit. I just did an image search on Google. So here you can see it briefly. There's the four of swords. It looks like a place of meditation, reflection, maybe grief over death or loss. So when I say a memorial service, what's interesting about these fixed stars is that there are certain stories that contain weeping, crying, gathering to weep or cry or mourn.

But also in the Halcyon days story, when the seas become calm so that Alkyone can nest, there's a kind of calmness, the calm sea and a resting place amidst the storms of life. That four of swords image has tranquility and meditation, but also maybe mourning or again a memorial service.

In my new book that's coming out pretty soon, I'm super excited. It's almost ready. I'm just waiting to hear back about the actual publication date. But there's a scene where I recount that I had to go to a ton of weddings and funerals growing up as a preacher's kid, just tons of them.

And I remember the first funeral where it was someone that I had an actual connection with, because a lot of them were older folks in our church community who were just passing on. And when I really tasted what it felt like to taste grief and sorrow, not just in myself, but collectively in a community who lost a young boy my age, it was different.

It's a part of my book that I wrote. I understood for the first time the purpose that funerals, or in this case a memorial space, served. There are places we need to come together, to congregate and mourn and process, or find stillness and reflection in the midst of chaos.

And I think that the Pleiades have always been seen as a gathering place for souls because of their clustered nature, because it's like this congregation of many parts. So in many indigenous traditions around the planet, the Pleiades are thought of as a home for ancestors or the spirits.

I did some research, and I found out that in Polynesian navigation, the Pleiades were thought to guide journeys across the vast oceans. For my daughters, they love Moana, and the idea of there being spirits that guide you across vast stretches of turbulent spaces. The seas are chaotic, and so we look in some traditions to the Pleiades for guidance through the storms and the chaos in the ocean.

In Japanese culture, I read that they also have a background of being understood as coming together in community. So this is common, as far as I can tell, just doing a little bit of research to prep my talk beyond what I already knew about the Pleiades. They're a cluster. They're a convergence point. They're a community space.

So as much as we have Uranus entering Gemini, we have all the Gemini stuff, and we have all the Uranus stuff, and that's all pretty exciting. It's like a busy coffee shop or something, Uranus and Gemini. But at the very beginning, we have this interesting convergence of energy at a powerful Pleiades star.

Now I have someone who's worked on the channel you guys have met, named Bianca. She is from Maori. I hope I'm saying it right, because I know I'm not. I want to say it right, Maori. But anyway, in Maori cosmology, and please tell me if I'm kind of on the right track, the Pleiades are apparently called Matariki. Not sure if I'm pronouncing that either correctly.

Apparently the rising of the Pleiades marks the New Year in that tradition, and there's gathering as community that takes place around that time. And as far as I've understood, it's also designated as a time to remember the dead or ancestors or to grieve losses. But correct me if I'm wrong, maybe Dianna is even listening to this.

So isn't that interesting? What's so interesting about this is none of this feels like Gemini to me. But the fixed star doesn't have to abide by the temple of the zodiac that it's corresponding with, and it can bring all of these significations to bear on a powerful first degree of Gemini.

Sometimes the lost sister story becomes part of the Pleiades, where one of the sisters is missing or hidden or sort of dimly lit. And this can become symbolic of anything that is absent, missing, unseen, or even somewhat mysterious. And for Alkyone, who's the brightest of this cluster, it can represent the visible center of something that also contains loss.

So I went back and looked at the time in my life when that young man died in my church congregation. And I wasn't surprised to find that the south node of the Moon was transitioning over Alkyone. And I thought, wow, that's the south node of the Moon in Gemini.

I pulled it up so I could just take a look at it, and you may go back if you want to, but I'm looking at this and it was in the winter of 1994, the fall into the winter. So I was kind of blown away, because as I was researching this star, back when I created my master class talk, I thought about communal grieving and coming together as a community, but maybe for the sake of stillness, reflection, grief, collective processing of trauma.

And I thought, wow, that's really powerful, that the memory that came to my mind happened just so happened to be connected with the south node moving over that star when that memorial service happened. It really shifted something in me.

So just to give a few historical examples that I dug up, when Uranus was last in Gemini, entering Gemini, which was in 1942. This was, of course, in the midst of World War II and its escalation. Just months prior, we had the attack on Pearl Harbor. That was December of 1941.

And then by the spring of 1942, we had two things that to me are really indicative of the Alkyone influence. Uranus, now the fixed stars move gradually. So Alkyone was at that time at 29 Taurus. It's now shifted into zero Gemini. But Uranus and Saturn were hovering over that degree during what is referred to as the Bataan Death March, which was a horrific display of mass violence.

This was one of a number of events that were happening that were activating collective grief and a much bigger global awareness of collective trauma and suffering perpetuated by the Holocaust, of course. But that was an event that took place. I'm not going to go into the details, because it's just unimaginable what happened.

I believe that took place in Japan, but the basic machinery of the Holocaust was accelerating, and this was one of a number of events that sparked collective trauma and trauma response. Another thing that happens during the Uranus in Gemini era is one of the first most significant periods of becoming aware of collective trauma from war.

PTSD at the time, I believe it was initially called shell shock. I can almost hear my grandfather talking about it in that way. But post-traumatic stress disorder from veterans coming home after World War II, during Uranus in Gemini, accelerated our understanding of trauma and how the nervous system processes trauma.

So the connection with Uranus in Gemini around Alkyone at the beginning of the sign is often about awakening our understanding of trauma, grief, and the nervous system and the health of the nervous system, not just personally, but collectively.

The Bataan Death March was in April of 1942 as the two planets, Saturn and Uranus, were conjoining Alcyone. Now the Battle of the Coral Sea is another major event that brings back that idea of oceanic tempestuousness, because the Battle of the Coral Sea was early May of 1942, at the time that Saturn and Uranus were also still right there on Alcyone.

And that was the first major, as Wikipedia describes it, first major carrier-based naval battle in history, which was a technological turning point in warfare. And so the collective element of trauma and turbulence and violence around this degree, as well as the mass processing, massive kind of global collective processing of human violence and trauma, you see how those things go together at this place.

And I don't mean for this to be scary, because these are big, epic storylines happening during World War II. But it's worth noting that we've been at war here in the United States. There is a war happening. And in 2026, in the wake of Saturn, Neptune, conjoining Uranus, Uranus in Gemini moments historically are pretty intense.

There's a lot of history. I won't go into because I did a whole webinar on Uranus in Gemini a couple years ago, before it was getting close to entering for the first time last year, I should say. And these periods, though, are often marked by processing of collective trauma, grief, suffering, violence, reflection upon these themes, escalation of some of these themes.

Not to mention Pluto in Aquarius, the Revolutionary War, the French and American Revolutions, and Neptune in Aries, the Civil War. So we have outer planets in signs right now that have some pretty deep history when it comes to human violence and suffering inflicted upon one another and collectively.

And in particular with Uranus in Gemini, and especially its history on this fixed star, it seems to happen at the outset of a time where collective events trigger a much broader, expansive understanding of suffering and trauma in the human nervous system and the collective nervous system.

So I wanted to mention those things, because I think they're important. And there's the Pleiades. Remember, in the story about Atlas, they're sort of living in a space of memorialization, like they're eternally crying and they're remembering something. So memory and grief are so closely tied together.

The silver of the moon as a reflective dish in the sky has often been compared with the capacity to empathize and to feel and to mirror things. We have the capacity to empathize as a reflective capacity. And memory was also associated with the moon, because the moon's reflectiveness was thought to be the copy or representation of the original light of the sun.

And so memory, grief, empathy, history. There's a lot that these reflective spaces carry. Well, Alcyone, this star in the Pleiades, is very similar in the sense that it has a long history of people congregating to remember ancestors, departed ones, to memorialize things, also to grieve collectively. I think it's all really fascinating to consider.

So I hope that that mythological background is useful. What I want to do next is get into some practical things to watch for. I also did for fun a Tarot spread that I'm going to show you. So let's go ahead and get into our five things to watch for, given that Uranus is entering Gemini on this initial powerful degree from the Pleiades.

Number one on my list to watch for, collectively and personally, is some kind of disruption of consensus reality. By that, what I mean is that Uranus in Gemini at this degree has the power to shake the mental field of the collective. And what I want us to notice, because I tend to focus on the personal on this channel, is that the language that's being used to tell stories right now, the narratives that are being woven, the spin that's being given, the media coverage, pay attention to it as a reflective, contemplative exercise.

Not to get wrapped up in it, but to take it into your own personal sphere and reflect on it, because Alkyone can bring a kind of existential weight and almost an existential ability to perceive, to look at the world and to grieve it, to grieve its darkness. That doesn't mean to condemn its darkness, or to try to float above it with positivity.

I think this is a great star and a great conjunction to allow ourselves to notice what's disturbing the world right now, what's shaking up the mental nervous system field, and what stories are being told about the disruptions that are occurring as Uranus is at zero Gemini, and then allow it to become like a memorial service you can go into.

In Buddhism, there are many layers of coming to terms with reality as it is. I really appreciated a post that I reshared on my Instagram profile recently. It was a woman who was talking about how she was raised in a Buddhist family, and she was talking about how at one point in time, she thought that compassion meant projecting kindness and positivity into everyone and everything.

And she's learned throughout her life in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that compassion also means seeing things clearly as they are, seeing the suffering, seeing the illusion, seeing the lostness, not judging it, but also not projecting positivity onto it, just letting it be what it is.

What's so interesting to me is the spin that might be put on the sufferings and disruptions of the mental and nervous system of the collective right now. In our ability to see truth and to sit with it, there's a feeling that could be very close at hand, that we don't agree on reality itself anymore. I think it's been happening for a while, in fact.

So Uranus on Alkyone can provide the sense that it's destabilizing the very idea that we can have shared meaning or consensus on anything, and that is worth grieving. There is maybe a collective grief that's going to start being processed unconsciously. That is the grief that says we can't see eye to eye, it's that we can't see anything.

There's a sense of that, and the more we try to avoid that deeper, darker feeling that we just can't understand what reality is anymore, we're not sure what is real anymore, that we've gotten so deep in the illusion of this plane of existence, we'll try to spin narratives about how the consensus doesn't exist because of you. No, it exists because of you. Back and forth.

So disruption of consensus as we observe collective events going on, the challenge is to see them clearly in truth and with compassion. Compassion does not mean projected positivity and kindness. It means allowing the feelings in, allowing ourselves to have a clear understanding and to join with the Pleiades, so to speak, to memorialize something, to recognize something that has happened steeped in loss of perspective or ignorance.

Just like collectively we were grieving with the Death March of Bataan, there was a very real collective sense that certainly we can't be this bad as humans. Can we? But yeah, we can. And in order to process that, we really have to sit with it. I think of that four of swords image again.

Number two on my list is emotional shock in the news. So emotional shock through information. This is very basic, and it only really unpacks a little bit more of what I was saying in point one, which is that I think we are going to see news cycles that feel personally or collectively overwhelming at this first degree of Uranus in Gemini.

It's information that will not just land with us intellectually, but will shake our nerves a bit. There can be with this transit in general, over seven years, increased anxiety, burnout, nervous system fatigue. We're not just processing data any longer. We're starting to feel it in our bodies, and our bodies are trying to give us feedback that the information flow and shocks need to be accompanied by a collective reality that includes grief, trauma, sensitivity, and an embodied way of dealing with what's happening in the world.

Now I'm not saying anything that other people haven't said, but I do think that it's fascinating to consider this from the standpoint of the stars. Think of all of the people over the planet that have seen these stars as a collective place of grieving, of joining together, of remembering, of memorializing.

Number three, unstable messengers and visionaries. Uranus will often bring in the sign of Gemini breakthrough thinkers. In my webinar that I did, I outlined the rapid development of existentialist philosophy that happened when Uranus was in Gemini in the 40s. This at Alkyone is why I mentioned Buddhism, because Buddhism, to me, is existentialism that isn't quite teetering on the edge of nihilism.

When I was an undergrad, I was a philosophy major and had to read a lot of existential thinking. And what I love about Buddhism is that you have a metaphysical, cosmic, animistic framework, but also a very existential kind of bottom line. To me, that works really well together. It sort of satisfies different parts of me that need to be present in my spiritual path.

What I love about the potential of Uranus on Alkyone is the potential for philosophical breakthroughs, which could come in the form of visionary thinkers or talks or ideas or subjects that you're becoming fascinated with. But the point being that on Alkyone, in these first weeks, even month or so, to me, the potential is there for this breakthrough in thinking to be about an unflinching understanding of truth.

I don't know one spiritual tradition, the big ones, Buddhism, the Vedic tradition, ancient esoteric traditions from the West, even contemplative Christianity, Sufism, these traditions, you have to square up to suffering and to impermanence and to loss. You have to have a tender relationship.

It's as though, in the garden of life, there's a whole section of the garden that has some darker, less pretty plants, but they're medicinal plants. They're harder to tend, but you still need to tend to the darker, heavier things. It's not all pretty. And tending to those things with care means that they can create breakthroughs for us, create transformation, to see more clearly, while compassion is also rising.

And there's a big difference between that and projected kindness or positivity. And Uranus on this star has an uncanny ability to help us understand the difference. But the distortion is the popularization of existential and nihilistic rhetoric. If there's no agreed upon truth, it's because there is no truth. We're just in the jungle of instinct and survival, and meaning making is a ploy to try to make life more bearable.

All of those things can become pretty dark. There's also a tendency for there to be, let's call them unstable messengers and visionaries, people who have something powerful to say, but it's destabilizing. So these are all things that come into my mind.

Number four is mass disillusionment with systems. So the memorialization of the Pleiades, the theme of memorialization and grieving and loss, could also come quite literally because people are walking away from different media ecosystems or ideological identities or social contracts that no longer fit. And there's almost a grieving, a processing, a letting go and a congregating around new centers as old ones are being released.

Disengagement can be quiet, not phenomenal. And yet, there are many revolutions that happen when certain fads and trends just burn out. I think a really powerful example of this comes from when Saturn was in Gemini. One of the powerful periods was around 2001 to 2003 or so. We had some of the more powerful campaigns that really shifted the statistical number of people who were smokers. Smoking went way down.

Interesting, because Gemini has an association with the lungs in some forms of medical astrology. But it wasn't, you know, like that's a revolution, but it's a revolution of disengagement. That's happening in some ways with alcohol right now. I don't know the numbers or anything, but the point is that sometimes I could see a revolution that begins now, but it's quiet and it's a turning point.

It's like slowly turning. It's not being announced anywhere. And that turning point might have to do with things that we're simply disengaging from and collectively putting as a memorialization. Like, well, remember the time when we all drank too much? Remember the time when way too many of us smoked all the time? I don't know, but that's another idea that came to me.

So hopefully we could see something like that happening positively with systems that are really not good for us. Sometimes the disillusionment can come with things like certain forms of food. I remember similarly when it became more popular to eat organic food, not that that's been mastered or health and food has all worked out exactly right, but there are changes that happen like that.

Now number five would be inner perception that's being strengthened, because when outer systems fracture, inner perception activates. And one thing we can talk about here is that the Pleiades have always been associated with a space of guidance through turbulent times, that there's a compass we can access.

That doesn't mean we will. It doesn't mean that history is unfolding because it's really adhering to a higher form of guidance. It certainly doesn't appear that way. But when we see history turning and different kinds of systems and structures fracturing as they have been this year in general, many things have been. There's a way that we can start looking for a different orientation, a different compass.

Alkyone is a way of saying, what do we collectively use as a central light? Alkyone is the central light of this congregation of stars. What orients the narratives of our lives? What stories do we live by? So just some interesting things to consider there.

Now I want to take you back to Nechepso. I'm going to take you to a Tarot spread that I did. So on the screen, you can see the Nechepso Tarot board, and I asked a question and laid out the cards according to a structure that I set up. The question was, what can we look for collectively and personally during this transit of Uranus to Alkyone?

And I asked, what will happen on the earth plane? Three cards, that's the King of Swords, the King of Pentacles, and Death that you see. And then I asked, what will the influence of Alkyone be over these earthly affairs? So above you see the influence of the star with the eight of cups. Below you see what will be unfolding on earth under its influence with the two kings and death.

I thought this was fascinating. Let's talk about the earthly level of things in this spread. King of Swords, I often see as a ruler related to things like logic, language, rational systems of thought. The swords as a suit is airy, but government, media, intellectual elites, tech elites. The belief of the King of Swords is that we can understand and we can define reality through understanding, through logic, through tech.

The world is showing on the King of Swords that there's something about mental figures of authority, tech leaders, governmental leaders, ruling through things like law and rationality and logic and control of information and things like that. The next card is the King of Pentacles. And to me, that is where ideas, and if you heard my recent talk that I did on air and earth, perfect match here, air and earth, ideas become material systems.

Every material system is a reflection of intelligent design within it. So the King of Pentacles would be the actual marketplaces, economic structures and institutions, control of resources, things like material stability or security, infrastructure, technology, things like that. And then Death. That's the end of a cycle.

These systems of thought, mind, and actual physical structure reach a limit and they have to transform. That's what the Death card means. Not optional. It's not avoidable, but it might be the completion of some kind of process. Now the celestial overlay, with Alkyone being represented as the star above, Uranus being conjoined, etc. Eight of cups.

You see a fellow walking away from his cups. I wish I could zoom in on this for you guys, but if you know the eight of cups, you can look up the image too. The eight of cups shows the soul walking away from the cups that are gathered there. Isn't that interesting how it shows a gathering? And this is a water suit. So the cups are water.

So disillusionment, conscious withdrawal, leaving behind something that once held meaning, or a collective container of some kind. So there's something being withdrawn or that we're letting go of or releasing, or there's some kind of memorialization happening. So the eight is exactly that Alkyone image of the collectivity, of the withdrawal, of the memorializing, of the remembering, but releasing and letting go.

All the kinds of things that happen in a cosmic memorial service that has many forms, not just tied to the literal death of a person, but to the death or withdrawal of things. And somehow, the sense that there can be some kind of recognizing and disengaging, seeing something for what it is, and also releasing it. So I thought that was a fascinating spread that just played right into some of the themes.

I thought I would share it with you at the end of the day. I have no idea what's going to happen. I don't. But I think that knowing that Uranus is on this fixed star now and all the way through, really, the end of May, the next month of our lives, is a time, even as students of astrology, to get to know this fixed star a little bit, to remember this cluster of stars that has had such significance for human beings for thousands of years.

And I'm of the mindset that astrology is not so much about predicting exactly what's going to happen, but of learning to recognize stories. Stories and myths become patterns that we are living in, and they help us recognize that that's exactly what's happening. That grants such depth and meaning to the way we engage with our experiences.

Because there's two levels: there's the experience, and then there's the engagement with experience and reflection. Both are so human. You can't avoid experience, and you also can't avoid reflecting upon it. So it's my hope that this just provides us with a meaningful way of reflecting, a meaningful way of finding ourselves in the story.

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