Imagine you work on a research boat on the ocean, charting the bottom with sonar. The reading comes in as two-dimensional lines and shapes, representing deep trenches, peaks, shipwrecks and so on. It’s your job to translate the incomplete outlines of these suggested, submerged objects and features — some of which may be fragmentary — into something whole, meaningful and useful for yourself, your crew and any other mariner following in your research lineage.
It’s this task of re-imaging, interpreting and translating into conscious, practical life that is at hand right now as Mercury continues its way through its second echo (echolocation?) phase in late Scorpio. As it resurfaces through our emotional waters this week, Mercury opposes minor planet Sedna in Taurus (exact tonight into Wednesday) — and both planets square centaur planet Nessus in Aquarius. All are at 23+ degrees of their signs.
Sedna was named after an Inuit creation goddess. Her story is rather a complex one, involving the refusal of an intimate relationship (albeit to what turns out to be a demon), the loss of family (specifically, being given away and then given up by her father), and finally the loss of her own fingers and toes, arms and legs — which then become the animals of the sea and a source of sustenance for the Inuit tribes.