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<\/a>Because she is so far away (as in, it is estimated that her orbit is in the range of ten thousand years) not very much is known about her. Scientists have deduced that she is a solid, deep red color comparable to Mars. They suggest she may have been a part of another system which, as it was floating along in the darkness, passed ours, and was pulled away from her native swirl and inducted (or perhaps abducted<\/em> would be a better word) by our stronger gravity. I have also read that Neptune is the culprit of her abduction because of his heavy gravity, which fits very nicely into Sedna’s myth.<\/p>\n Sedna is the first and only cosmic body to be named for a deity in the Inuit Native culture of the Arctic circle. According to tradition, Sedna was once a mortal girl who was beautiful and knew it. Many men from villages far and near sought her hand in marriage, and she turned them all down. Her self-proclaimed beauty was so great that not any normal husband would do. Finally, after a particularly hard year, her father told her that she needed a husband to take care of her. The village was running low on food, and so if she would marry the next hunter that came to call, she would insure food and a warm bed for herself; it would be the wisest thing to do. As her father instructed, Sedna continued to brush her hair and stare at her reflection in the calm water by the shore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sedna was so totally lost in the beautiful reflection upon the water, that she did not see the well-dressed hunter approaching the encampment. Nor did she see the deal this fur-clothed hunter made with her father. All she knew was that a new husband had come to call and she had to get into his kayak. She obeyed, though obviously was not the blushing bride her father perhaps hoped, and off she and the mysterious hunter went.<\/p>\n They paddled for a long time and came to a bare island surrounded by the icy sea. There was no trace of a home there and when Sedna looked up into the hooded shadows that covered her new husband’s face, he let out a laugh and unmasked himself. Cackling above her was the Raven. In his mirth, he seized her by the hair and dragged her to the top of the rocks where he had scattered bits of hair and fur: this was to be the conjugal bed. Sedna was so sad at this unfortunate turn of events, that she wept day and night, and called her father’s name over and over again. Finally, her voice drifted to his ears, carried by the Arctic wind. Wrought with guilt, Sedna’s father decided it was time to rescue his daughter. He jumped into his kayak, and began to paddle.<\/p>\n Their reunion was joyful and also fleeting. As they paddled back to Sedna’s home land, the Raven discovered his rock bed empty, and flew in search of his wife. From afar, Sedna spied the black shape of her husband growing larger as he came near, and her heart sank in forboding.<\/p>\n He overtook them soon, and whipped the sea into a storm with the beating of his wings. Terrified, Sedna’s father pushed her into the sea to appease what was obviously a force greater than himself. When Sedna struggled to hang on to the side of the kayak, her father severed her fingers with a knife. This happened twice. At last, and in agony, Sedna succumbed to the freezing water, and sank after her fingers to the bottom of the sea.<\/p>\n But the story did not end for the beautiful maiden. She had the magic of Raven flowing through her and did not die. Rather, her severed fingers became the whales and seals. She herself became the goddess of the sea Inuit Natives pray to at the start of hunting excursions. Her good favor is held in such high esteem that shamans dive into the spirit realm to comb her tangled hair and soothe her. Hunters after a kill will pour water into the mouths of their quarry in honor of the goddess. Their survival depends upon her.<\/p>\n Phil Sedgwick<\/a><\/strong> provides the delineation of Sedna as being conscious of consequence, having a forgiving disposition, or negatively, bitterness, history of betrayal and unconciousness. In the more mundane sense, Sedna correlates with sea animal products and diving bells.<\/p>\n Shanna, an excellent addition to the Planet Waves writing team, adds: If Princess Sedna of Inuit mythology had been allowed, she would have probably celebrated this day the way any five year old dreams: by greedily gobbling up all the cake and ice cream, leaving not one crusty little bright red icing rosette for us. It was probably this appetite for good things that annoyed her father, because every version of Sedna’s tale ends with her chopped into bits (usually by dad) and dumped into the dark, arctic depths of the ocean. But just as a slap is never the end of an argument, Sedna’s dismemberment isn’t the end of her tale. Sedna’s story is about what happens when we think violence has cut our connections to life. For in the depths of her watery grave, Sedna reassembles herself, takes on a new form and assumes dominion over the ocean creatures. In a 2004 Planet Waves post, Eric shares some thoughts about Sedna’s meaning from astrologer and astro-researcher Melanie Reinhart:<\/p>\n “Even in the face of unrelenting trauma and suffering, we can, indeed must, beat our drum and sing to life. This is not a plea for escapism, but rather an acknowledgement that the Work is about keeping our heart open in hell. Sedna’s story is about acknowledging just how bad things really feel, and starting from there. Radical acceptance is demanded. Allowing love and harmony into our lives (symbolized by the Star of David, or the Harmonic Concordance [a configuration noted at the time of Sedna’s discovery]) may mean opening to the frozen places inside where we are conflicted and feel unloving. To try and manufacture joy is to metaphorically cut off our own fingers.”<\/p>\n In my opinion, Sedna’s energy is that of detachment. It seems to me that she is about the detachment a person adopts in order to survive abuse, or on the more positive side, detachment as a form of forgiveness, of being able to rise above differences that would otherwise make partnership impossible. Since Sedna was discovered in Taurus (where she\u0412\u00a0still resides) and she is red in color, I feel that she is closely linked to the relationships and bonds we form with animals, especially mammals, and how that relates to the relationships we have with ourselves.<\/p>\n Thanks for joining us, Sedna and as Shanna so eloquently put it: we’ve saved the biggest piece of cake just for you!<\/p>\n Merry Met,<\/p>\n Genevieve and Shanna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friend and Reader, Five years ago,\u0412\u00a0Sedna came into view as a distant spec standing at the edge of our galaxy, like a mysterious woman debating whether or not to join in on the shivaree. 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