Uranus currently conjunct the stars of the Hyades in early Gemini. This first activation is with us through September and October 2026, and Uranus will return to this region from May 2027 until May 2028.
I have been talking about how the Hyades may be expressed in our lives during live Q&As for some time, but until now I did not have a dedicated lesson about them inside my Galactic Astrology courses. With Uranus activating these stars, I felt this was the right time to investigate them more closely.
What initially drew my attention to the Hyades was a pattern I had noticed over time: an affinity for art and beauty. I have seen that clients with prominent Hyades alignments often have a natural ability to create something beautiful or make whatever they work on more beautiful. Some were professional artists. Others used art to support a different profession, built visually stunning websites or social media platforms, or created especially beautiful home environments.
As I began researching this further for the new lesson, however, the picture became more interesting and nuanced. My working hypothesis now is that people with prominent Hyades alignments may prefer to communicate their essential nature or deepest feelings through art. In other words, art may become their communication medium.
It is not always art in the conventional sense. What stands out is their ability to express something deeply personal through what they create. For people with prominent Hyades alignments, words alone may not always feel sufficient. They may be drawn to communicate their inner world through colour, music, movement, design, imagery or other creative mediums that allow what they carry within to be seen and felt.
What are the Hyades?
The Hyades are the nearest open star cluster to our solar system, located approximately 150 light-years from Earth. They form the familiar V-shaped face of Taurus, next to Orion. Aldebaran appears to be part of this formation when viewed from Earth, but it is much closer to us and is not physically part of the Hyades cluster.
GalacticAstroChart.com currently calculates three principal stars connected with the Hyades: Hyadum I, Hyadum II and Ain. In the tropical zodiac, in year 2000 they were positioned between 4°-10° degrees of Gemini, including their orb of influence. You can check their exact position in any year in tropical and sidereal zodiac freely HERE.
You may have a conjunction to Hyades if you have a planet or point in early Gemini. You may also have other major or minor aspects from placements elsewhere in your chart. You can create your free Galactic Astrology report HERE to check if these stars were aligned when you were born.
The sisters who mourned their brother
Ancient Greek accounts differ regarding Hyades sisters number, names and parentage. In an account attributed to the Greek poet Musaeus and preserved in Hyginus’s Astronomica, the Hyades were five daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Aethra, belonging to the same larger family as the Pleiades.
Their story is closely connected with their brother Hyas, whom they loved deeply. Hyas died while hunting, and his sisters mourned him so profoundly that their grief and tears became associated with the rainy season. In this version of the myth, Zeus took pity on them and placed them among the stars.
Once I sat with this mythology, I began to see my earlier observations about art and Hyades differently. Perhaps Hyades is not simply associated with artistic ability. As is star Spica, for example. But in the Hyades case, it may have something to do with expressing what we are living through, particularly experiences carrying deep emotion, profound love, grief or longing.
For one person, that may become painting, music, design or performance. For another, it may be expressed through caregiving, creating beauty in the home, preserving memories or bringing comfort and harmony to other people. Art may be one expression of the Hyades rather than the whole meaning.
What I found in the charts of artists
To investigate my hypothesis, I explored the charts of a varied selection of visual and multidisciplinary artists, including Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Gustav Klimt, Björk, Tim Burton, Wassily Kandinsky, Remedios Varo, Agnes Pelton and Iris van Herpen.
Each chart revealed several meaningful Hyades alignments. I explore the individual artists and their alignments in greater detail inside the Galactic Astrology 101 course and Quantum Soul Guidance Practitioner Program, both of which include a module on fixed stars and how their symbolism may be expressed in our lives.
You can also review their Galactic Astrology reports for yourself by logging in to GalacticAstroChart.com and searching for their names in the Public Charts section.
They all had several meaningful Hyades alignments and I explored them in detail in the Galactic Astrology 101 course and Quantum Soul Guidance Practitioner program as both include a module on fixed stars alignments and their meaning in our life.
Since I watched Frida Kahlo's biography movie a few times in my life, I loved reviewing her chart more than any other of the selected case studies. Frida Kahlo offers a particularly meaningful example. Hyades sits in her 11th Whole Sign House, suggesting that what she carried within was ultimately shared with and recognised by a wider collective.
Image: The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth, Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl, 1949by Frida Kahlo
Hyades is sextile Mercury in Leo in her 1st house, connecting these stars with her personal voice, identity and need for self-expression. Although painting rather than words became her primary language, her work communicated unmistakably who she was and what she had lived through.
The novile from Hyades to her Sun in Cancer in the 12th house adds a subtle, more inward dimension. The novile is associated with inner growth, spiritual maturation and the completion of deeply personal processes. In Frida’s chart, it may reflect the way she continually entered the private and subconscious layers of her experience and gave them visible form through her art.
Jupiter in Cancer in the 12th forms a semisquare to Hyades. This subtle tension may have magnified her inner emotional world and encouraged an ongoing search for meaning within experiences of pain, isolation and confinement.
Uranus in Capricorn in her 6th house is biquintile Hyades. The biquintile is associated with refined creativity, originality and the development of a distinctive skill. In the 6th house, this may relate to the extraordinary way she adapted her creative practice around the very challenging realities of her body, health and daily life, transforming limitation into an unmistakably original form of expression.
The connection between Hyades and Neptune in Cancer in her 12th adds another beautiful layer to her expression. Neptune relates to imagery, sensitivity and realities that can be difficult to communicate literally. Frida’s paintings allowed those hidden emotional realities to become visible.
Taken together, these alignments feel deeply relevant for an artist who expressed her identity and personal life story so openly through painting. Her art communicated the immense physical and emotional pain she lived through, but it also revealed her continuing journey of understanding herself and finding freedom through creative expression.
The grief within the mythology
While working on this lesson and blog, I thought about one of my clients with prominent Hyades alignments and her younger sister. These two members of the same family have life stories that reflect the mythology in a much more literal way.
One woman has Hyades conjunct Venus in her 11th house. Venus rules her Libra 3rd house of siblings. She is not an artist in the conventional sense, but love, loss and caregiving involving her siblings have played a significant role in her life. Her first younger brother died suddenly in a car accident at the age of 36. Many years later, she cared for her second younger brother throughout the final year of his life before he died from throat cancer.
Her younger sister has Hyades in the 7th house at the focal point of a T-square with Pluto and Chiron. She mourned the deaths of the same two brothers, one of whom was her twin. Both women remained strong through their grief and continued to serve and care for others. Interestingly, they also express themselves artistically. One creates pictures using beads to tell a story, while the other transforms leftover pieces of wood into artistic figures.
These two charts, together with many other examples I have encountered, made me question whether the deeper Hyades theme may concern what we do with love and the grief that can accompany it.
The charts of Katharine Hepburn and Céline Dion added another useful layer to this exploration. Both women lost brothers and both have minor aspects to Hyades. However, their experiences of sibling loss appear to be described more directly through their 3rd houses and the rulers of those houses.
Katharine Hepburn has Mars, Uranus and the South Node in her 3rd house, with its ruler Saturn in Pisces in the 5th. This describes a sudden and traumatic experience involving a sibling, with the emotional consequences potentially finding an outlet through creativity and performance.
She also has 14 minor-aspect contacts between the three Hyades stars and her Midheaven, lunar nodes, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Many belong to the fifth-harmonic family of aspects connected with creative shaping and expression. Hyades may therefore contribute to the way she transformed what she carried emotionally into her work, even if it is not the clearest astrological signature of the event itself.
Céline Dion has her South Node in the 3rd Whole Sign House, with its ruler Venus in Pisces in the 8th. Uranus and Pluto occupy her 3rd Placidus house. This speaks clearly to profound and transformative experiences involving siblings.
Her Moon is also semiquintile Hyades, while Saturn and her Midheaven are septile Hyades. These subtle connections may contribute to her extraordinary ability to communicate deep emotion, grief and enduring love through her voice.
I do not take these examples to mean that Hyades predicts the loss of a sibling. Instead, what I am beginning to see is a possible relationship between deep feeling and the need to give that feeling another form. Sometimes that form is art. Sometimes it is care and service. For some people, it may be all three.
Contemporary accounts of the Hyades
Some of my students and community members have read Elena Danaan’s books and may already be familiar with her account of civilisations connected with the Hyades.
In A Gift From the Stars, Danaan describes the Hyadeans as descendants of Ahel refugees who escaped from the Lyran systems during a conflict with the Ciakahrr Empire. According to her account, these groups ancient Lyrans travelled with people, animals, plants, minerals and elements of their cultures in order to preserve what they could from their civilisation.
AI art inspired by Danaan's hand drawing of the Ahel man from Hyades.
She describes the Hyadean colonies as predominantly Ahel, with some Taal ancestry, and relates them to other Lyran groups who settled in the Pleiades and Vega systems. She also portrays the Hyadeans as choosing peaceful isolation and withdrawing from wider galactic diplomacy.
I am including it because some people may recall experiences or possible past lives connected with the Hyades, and Elena’s material may offer a useful point of comparison.
If you have memories, dreams, regression experiences or inner impressions connected with these stars, I recommend recording your own experience before reading too many external accounts. This helps us notice whether similar details have been reported independently rather than unconsciously adopting what someone else has already described.
Source: Elena Danaan, A Gift From the Stars: Extraterrestrial Contacts and Guide of Alien Races, pp. 178–179. Referenced with her permission.
Uranus may help us see the Hyades differently
Uranus is now moving across the Hyades in Gemini, first during September and October 2026 and then for a longer period from May 2027 until May 2028.
Uranus often brings new awareness, liberation and a willingness to explore beyond accepted explanations. Gemini is connected with communication, learning, ideas and the ways in which we exchange information.
I am curious whether this transit will inspire new forms of creative expression, particularly through technology and online platforms. It may also awaken memories or emotional material that people are ready to understand and communicate differently. Uranus may help us question the interpretations we have inherited.
The traditional astrological descriptions of the Hyades tend to focus heavily upon sorrow, hardship, tears and misfortune. The mythology certainly contains grief, but grief is not the end of the story. Love remains within it. So do remembrance, devotion and the possibility of transforming pain into something that carries meaning and inspiration. This is the part I would like us to explore together.
Do you have Hyades in your chart?
You can discover your Hyades alignments by creating a free Explorer account at GalacticAstroChart.com. Look for Hyadum I, Hyadum II and Ain in your Galactic Report and notice whether they form close aspects with your planets, lunar nodes, Ascendant or Midheaven.
If you have a Hyades alignment and feel comfortable contributing to this research, please share:
- which Hyades star is involved
- the planet or point aligned with it
- the aspect
- the house occupied by Hyades, if your birth time is known
- how this connection may be reflected in your life
I am particularly interested in whether you use art, design, music, writing, movement or beauty to express what you are living through. I would also like to hear about experiences involving siblings, grief, caregiving, remembrance or a deep need to create harmony around you.
If you recall a possible life or civilisation connected with the Hyades, you can share that too. Please distinguish between what you experienced directly and what you later encountered through books, videos or other teachings.
Since adding the new Hyades lesson to my courses, I have already received some fascinating feedback. One person with Saturn conjunct Hyades shared that she has used art journalling throughout her life to find relief, clear her mind and process what she has experienced. By combining writing with paint, paper, images and other materials, she is able to take whatever she is carrying internally and give it another form.
I found her choice of words insightful. She did not describe art simply as something she enjoys creating, but as a way of processing, releasing and transforming her experiences. With Saturn conjunct Hyades, there is also something beautifully fitting about giving structure and physical form to feelings that may otherwise be difficult to contain or express through words alone.
This is only one personal account, but it reflects very closely the pattern I am investigating here. I would now love to hear how Hyades may be expressed through your chart and life story.
Thank you for reading and thank you for your support.
With love and peace,
Julia
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