Sedna the Sea Goddess
Lesson Two
Correspondences
Sedna is the daughter of the creator God Anguta and the Goddess Nerrivik. She is depicted in many forms depending on each tribe sometimes a walrus or a sinister hag with one eye, no fingers and a giant bloated body. She is also depicted as a beautiful mermaid.
Sedna rules over the Adlivun underworld as queen of the dead, looked upon by the Inuit people as the ‘spirit of the sea’ with power over all sea animals.
Sedna is also known as Arnakuagsak or Arnarquagssaq in
When Sedna appears this is to tell you to stop being a victim, to change the pattern of being a victim and to empower yourself. Recognise that you are playing the victim Sedna encourages you to claim your power. Use your energy to create what you want.
When Sedna comes into your life it means you must seek out your fears and that despite these fears and mistakes we are all worthy of respect and love that we deserve to be treated well by others.
The Inuit believe that the success or failure in their hunting depends on Sedna’s unpredictable mood. Without Sedna’s blessing hunts fail and the people starve.
Shamans must swim down to Sedna at the bottom of the ocean to comb Sedna’s long black tangled hair, because she has no fingers with which to hold the comb to do it
herself. This is said to calm Sedna and she then releases her mammals to allow the Inuit to catch food for their families. It is said that the hunter gives a gesture of thanks to Sedna by dropping water into the mouth of the mammal he catches.
The crystal associated with Sedna, is diamond.
Sedna Astronomy
A large planetoid was discovered on 14th November 2003 its orbit is on the outer fringe of our solar system. The planetoid was discovered by Mike Brown of the Californian Institute of
Named for the Inuit Goddess Sedna because of its cold distant nature, it is thought to be a huge ball of ice between 800 and 1,100 miles in diameter. Astronomers believe that extremely long periods of exposure to radiation has turned the compounds within the ice red.
Sedna is approximately 90 astronomical units from the sun with a highly elliptical orbit going round the sun once every 10,5000 years. Two thirds the size of Pluto, three times further away from the Sun than Pluto or Neptune and because of its distance the temperature never rises above –400F.
Sedna’s official name is 2003 VB12 and was first observed with the 48 inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory near
artists impression of the view from Sedna
Sedna Astrology
Sedna, near the constellation Cetus the Whale, was discovered shortly after a major astronomical event. This being ‘The Harmonic Concordance’, a very rare planetary alignment. The concordance provided the opportunity for detecting a new planet that was at its closest point to the sun.
In astrology there are three categories of planets.
The first consists of the planets visible to the naked eye.
The second consists of the transpersonal planets, those outside of the visible planets. The third consists of the Great Year planets.
Each category has its own unique characteristics.
Category 1: defines the conscious personality.
Category 2: describes the evolution of the soul.
Category 3: describes the evolution of humanity over thousands of years and the precession of the equinoxes.
Sedna’s orbit is tracking the half cycle of the Great year which being on a cusp point for the evolution of humanity as it was and could be.
Sedna has major implication for astrology and in the natal chart represents a manifestation of metaphysical energy. Sedna was in the sign of Aries from the late 1800’s to the mid 1960’s when it moved into Taurus where it will be until 2023 to 2024.
GLOSSARY 2
ADLIVUM: Inuit underworld
ANNINGAN: Inuit moon God
ARNAKYAGSAK: Sedna’s
ESKIMO: A native American word meaning ‘eaters of raw meat’ used by the Athapascan speaking tribes of Alaska and Canada to address the Inuit people and is considered an offensive term.
MALINA: Inuit Sun Goddess
SEDNA:
MODERN INUIT:
Inuvialuit and Copper Inuit of the western arctic
Netsilik and Caribou Inuit of the central arctic
Iglulik and Baffinland Inuit of the Eastern arctic
Ungava Unuit of northern
NERRIVIK OR NULIAJUK: Sedna’s Alaskan name
SANNA: Inuktitut translation of Sedna
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