Alcyone: one of the 7 Pleiades
From the Secret Doctrine: one of the 7 pleiades … [it is] supposed to be the star around which our universe revolves
and The sun (i.e. the solar system) has Alcyone in the Pleiades for the centre of its orbit.
(EA 679,669)
Neither of these make astronomical (or logical) sense, as our local cluster of more than thirty galaxies has a centre somewhere between our Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda (with which our galaxy will merge in a few billion years’ time). Beyond that, in the “local” universe there is the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space in the direction of the constellation Centaurus, around which it is likely that most of the galaxies in our section of the universe orbit, although the universe is too young for our galaxy to have completed even a single “orbit”. Perhaps “revolves” indicates that Alcyone is an esoteric hub, especially as the universe itself doesn’t revolve around any particular centre, although our solar system itself does—as with all others in our galaxy—revolve around the well-known (as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope) black hole Sagittarius A* at the centre of our galaxy… an “orbit” that would take 225-250 million years.
However, Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades, with a rotational velocity so high that is has an ellipsoidal shape rather than a circular one, and throws out an orbiting gaseous disk from its equator.
In Esoteric Astrology it is called “the Star of the Individual—governing Humanity” (EA 198) and the “star of intelligence”, with third ray connotations, and is at the root of all major changes where the mind is involved as a facet of the third ray (EA 200, 201). As such, it was active in the previous solar system which was ruled by that ray. Alcyone impregnated the universe with the quality of mind
and was present at the time of individualisation. Presumably, it will also be present when the Aquarian era initiates the role of humanity as true mediator (as the personality ray of Earth’s planetary logos) to the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
It may also represent the evocation of the Earth’s Monadic energy which will occur when the planetary soul (Hierarchy) and personality (Humanity) are aligned.