Sedna permanently ingressed to Gemini this morning at 7:35 am EDT for the first time since the end of the last ice age. On June 15 of 2023, Sedna made a first foray into Gemini, where it remained until November 23. As a transneptunian planet with a diameter the size of Charon (Pluto's Moon), Sedna is in the area of the solar system known as the Oort Cloud and takes 11,400 years to orbit the Sun. Sedna's orbit is highly elliptical meaning it spends less and less time in signs as it rotates closer to the Sun. Named after the Inuit goddess of the sea, Sedna has been in Taurus since April 3, 1967.
First Ingress Lessons
On the 6/15/23 ingress, Sedna was conjunct Mercury in Gemini and conjunct Vesta, the Moon and Uranus in Taurus while square Saturn in Pisces. Mercury was thus in a new phase conjunction with Sedna, and the Taurus based entities were in a balsamic phase conjunction. Sedna in Taurus illuminated the dysfunctional relationship between humans and Earth, making most of us aware of our intensifying abuse toward our home planet. This ingress points toward the need for dramatic change in our behavior as a species. Some of us have been emotionally in tune with this for a long time, and there has been an upsurge in environmental illnesses in recent years. We have seen dramatic shifts in climate and anticipate decades of forced migration. Those with the fewest resources will be exposed to the deadliest effects of our excessive consumption. The truth is that we cannot separate ourselves, our bodies, from the Earth. What we do to the planet, we do to ourselves. This is an essential message for us to carry forward into the Sedna in Gemini years.
Permanent Ingress Harbingers
Strikingly, this morning's ingress is conjunct the Jupiter/Uranus dynamic. It is as if the change that needs to happen in the Taurus field is amplified not only through Jupiter, but also through Sedna. Taurus represents our bodies, our senses, our values, our resources. Taurus is also where we are most stubborn and resistant to change. This is where we dig in. We get entrenched. The danger Sedna may be alerting us to through the Gemini frame is that entrenchment itself can be polarizing. Perhaps it is our attachment to our old ways that needs to shift. We need a new perspective.
The June 2023 ingress was marked by the square with Saturn. The significant change relative to today's ingress is that rather than negotiating with a planet under construction that has temporarily and ironically lost its foundation, Sedna is tickled by Mars applying to a conjunction with Neptune in Pisces, which looks like our will forgetting itself, lost in overwhelm, directionless. The collective body is dizzy. We are experiencing immense cognitive dissonance. The tendency toward dissociation is at an all time high.
Where does our mental consciousness come into play here? Is it possible to engage our minds in some artful play, to offer ourselves a reprieve? This artful play may give us time and space to imagine a reorientation that includes a brand new schema. New metaphors may arise. Instead of software programs or neural networks, we may think of ourselves as canvases primed for tempura, oils and resins. Our skin engraved with inks of all colors. Touch grass. Do not cast stones. Our memory is as old as the Earth. Our stories are written in our bodies.
Sedna discovery
Sedna was discovered on November 19, 2003 at 10:50 am in Palomar Mountain, CA.
In the discovery chart, Sedna is retrograde in Taurus conjunct the North Node and Okyrhoe, opposite the Sun and Pholus in Scorpio. Neptune is square the Nodal axis. Venus and Pluto are quincunx in Sagittarius. The discovery chart is warning us of our hubris, our abusive treatment of everything we deem to be beneath us. We need to redeem our collective imagination. Assistance comes through the grand trine with Jupiter in Virgo and Chiron in Capricorn. With careful consideration and revising of our outdated beliefs, we can reconstruct the encrusted hierarchies so our organizations are more holistic, more organic, closer to the ground, while allowing for branching in multiple directions.
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