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Sedna: The 10th planetBellezza SquillaceAfter you read a little background in this article for the new planet, Sedna, you can find some information below about her placement in your personal astrology chart and what that might mean to you. If you need help calculating this placement, my email address is below & I will be happy to help you find it in your chart. When this new planet was named in March, it shook up the astrology community. Previously, planets and asteroids were named for gods and goddesses of the Roman-Greco pantheon. This planet was named for a goddess in an indigenous culture and sent us out of a white male dominance astrologically. Astronomers realized, with this discovery, that a brand new third category of planets was required astrologically, whose archetypes would stretch our consciousness in directions we could not even imagine. We find ourselves considering three categories of planets in astrology:
The first category of planets consists of the Ancient planets visible by the naked eye: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Since ancient times astrologers have observed and recorded the energies these planets represent for humans. Astrologers site the second category of planets, Transpersonal planets. These are planets just outside the orbits of the ancient planets in the first category and are named Chiron, Pallas Athena, Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Quaoar, and other unnamed trans-Neptunians. Their orbits take from about 50 years to 300 years for a single rotation of the Sun. As you can surmise, their influence affects whole generations and appear less significant until we look at the transits. Now we have Sedna, the first of what promises to be a collection of planets whose orbits are 10,000 years plus/minus around the Sun. Sedna shows us clear meanings by her house position in the natal chart. We treat Sedna as we treat the other known planets. In the natal chart, Sedna represents the manifestation of a relatively clearly defined energy (from her mythology) in a certain area of personal human activity (house placement in your chart) either harmoniously or with difficulty depending on the aspects. We expect this. This defined energy is based upon the myth of Sedna, one of her own arrogance, betrayal, loss of all she holds dear, and then the depth of her transformation. In the myth, we see another “legend of the descent” with different participants than we saw in the Innana myth. This myth engages what many indigenous cultures prophesied as the Return of the Daughter. What does all that mean to you? Sedna entered Aries in January, 1866, just when the Women’s Movement was birthing in the US as wimmin began to claim their equality. She moved into Taurus in June of 1967, where she remains until 2025 and enters Gemini. You can make a “best guess” by doing the math….born before June of 1967, she was in Aries; born after that time, she is in Taurus. She was orbiting either direct or in retrograde. In your lifetime, she will move through two of your natal houses. The influence you will feel personally has more to do with what happens when the other planets transit or move through those houses. What all of this presents to us is a clue to the first half of our life with the challenges we may face and a look at the second half of our life for the way we make transformations and find healing. You need to have a copy of your chart and her placement in it to start looking at this influence. Here is a simple reminder of the House energies.
My current theory is that the placement of Sedna at your birth signals the areas where you will feel more youthful experiences of arrogance, rebellion and then betrayal. And then the next house she moves into will demonstrate the ways you can make transformations and come into your own personal powers. For example, if Sedna appears in your 10th house at your birth, you might have all the issues of arrogance, rebellion and betrayal throughout your relationship to your career and perhaps your mother…then as you begin to work through your issues, you find the possibility of transformation whenever you work with and toward your personal values as you participate and form community relationships. Of course, this example is very simplistic, however it gives you an idea how this energy could manifest. Lets say, for example, when we examine the transits Jupiter (archetype for expansion) passes Sedna. If it holds true to the astrology formulas we use for other transits, your life feelings and experiences of arrogance, rebellion and betrayal would get triggered in that 10th house…and as Jupiter transits the next house, if you are aware of working with those energies, your experiences are more transformational and healing. You will experience a descent into the depths and also that ascent up to a more healthy perspective. Bellezza Squillace is working on a new book that examines Sedna in our charts. If you are interested in learning more about that project or if you have any questions or can add to what she has written, check out www.The12th-House.com or email her at housekeeper@the12th-house.com. |
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