We have to go back to the weekly and the Goddesses, because as the Sun moves into Gemini and catches up with Uranus this week, he also catches up with asteroid Sedna.
Asteroids are pieces of rock floating in space. Likely the remains of planets and planetary bodies - they are cosmic time capsules. There are over a million catalogued asteroids with over ten thousand named. Most are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The empty space in every astrology chart you have ever seen, including your own is FILLED WITH THEM.
This is probably why I connect them with the so-called 'junk DNA' scientists are waking up to the importance of (along with dark matter). The myths we use in astrology are the ancient language of archetypes. They are the stories that connect all of us by re-tracing the shared pathways of our collective unconscious. There are parts of us/our DNA that remembers, and so reacts, to these stories.
We talked about the Sun/Uranus "disruption/shock" in the weekly HERE, but let's take a look at what Sedna's presence adds to the picture.
What we call the Age of Aquarius is, among other things, the age of the RETURNING STORIES and she is undoubtedly, as she changed signs in lockstep with the outer planets - one of the important ones. We maybe first talked about Sedna HERE during the pandemic (and we can see as she is activated by Uranus now in Gemini, multiple virus stories are being headlined in the news) and we talked about her again HERE when Trump wanted to 'buy' Greenland.
We know Sedna's story won't be returning neatly or completely. Nothing that has been underwater for two thousand years surfaces without sediment, without the strange pressure-changes that come from that much depth. Without making a freaking MESS. Probably none of the Goddess stories will arrive as we imagined them or even as the stories left us. They will arrive transformed by their own burial/forgetting - carrying the wound and the wisdom of having been exactly what no one wanted to look at.
Unlike some of the other Goddesses, Sedna was never lost in the conventional sense. Her people kept her (the Inuit traditions held her faithfully). But in the larger civilizational story, the story that shaped the larger world that is now reckoning with itself, she was not included. The girl who half-knew. The woman who refused the wrong marriages and paid for her refusal with her very life. The one dropped from the boat by the father that should have protected her, whose severed fingers became the source of all life in the coldest ocean on earth.
She was not part of the creation story the dominant world tells about itself.
Now maybe she will be, at least for some of us. For those paying attention. Sedna sits with Uranus in Gemini as the Sun comes to meet them both/shining a light on their stories and while the Moon sleeps through the whole thing and then wakes into Virgo asking - what the flying f*ck did you let happen while I wasn't watching?!
The myth of Sedna is specific and brutal. She doesn't leave our world voluntarily. She is cut loose - her clinging fingers chopped from the boat by the father/the husband/the authority figure (depending on which version you read), and in falling into the sea she becomes the source of everything. The seals, the whales, the fish, every oceanic creature that feeds humanity rises from her severed hands. The great loss becomes the great abundance. But only after she stopped being held.
Sedna the planetary body moves so slowly she's generational. Everyone alive today who wasn't born in the last year or so, has Sedna in Taurus or Sedna in Aries (before 1966). Her wounds are collective/civilizational. And she's sitting with Uranus in Gemini which means the awakening is also a reckoning with that. The brilliant new idea. The shocking change. The lightning bolt of insight. The rewired nervous system of civilization. It's all happening against the backdrop of this deep Sedna question - what are we depending on that is no longer holding us? What father-figure/institution/trusted source of information/authority or structure, has LET GO OF US? And how are we changing/who are we becoming because of this?
Maybe the Void Moon sleeping through the conjunction of the Sun/Uranus/Sedna is herself a kind of Sedna moment - the one (Luna) who would normally hold and witness and feel is not there. As our little guy Sully, who is not so little these days, likes to say, "that ship has sailed".
In the end every creature in the sea comes from the open hands she did not want to open. The ships that sail those waters, every last one of them, can only exist because she was cut loose. So, what gets born from this particular Sun/Uranus conjunction this year, this particular moment of the authority or the old dependency releasing its grip, might be exactly proportional to how complete the letting go is.
After the Void, the Moon is in Virgo and squares the Sun and Uranus and Sedna. Luna wakes (and she is us, too, of course), takes inventory and asks - ok, what do we actually have, what can we actually work with, what is genuinely nourishing now that the old sources have withdrawn? That's Virgo energy at her most NECESSARY. She is not just mourning the lost fingers, although there is always some of that, but cataloguing what grew from them. The ships are already on the water. The question the Moon in Virgo is asking is which ones are seaworthy.
And here is where the duality of Gemini comes in/matters/is NEEDED because, yes, Sedna births the creatures, but Sedna the human girl also DROWNS. This tension is the heart of her myth/story and it deserves to be SEEN without rushing ahead to the 'glorified ending' with the whales and the leaping dolphins.
Because the cosmic outcome - all the creatures of the sea/the abundance - that's what she becomes. But what happens to the human Sedna is that she drowns. She doesn't get to live on the shore and know what she made. She goes down into the cold and she stays there. The human girl who didn't want to marry wrong, who maybe chose to not look too hard at the handsome stranger/at what she was actually getting because the alternative seemed far worse, who ended up in the boat with the wrong guy anyway, well, she doesn't get retrieved. She gets transformed, which is not the same thing as saved.
Again, remember we are in the chrysalis, and the caterpillar doesn't exist anymore, and the butterfly doesn't exist yet.
And the narcissistic wounding we felt with Sedna in Taurus (or Aries) for the whole of our lives, well there's something in that story worth pushing back on too. The story can be told as she was too proud, too selective, too unwilling to sacrifice her preferences for the greater good of her family or community and that reading has been used against women's refusal for as long as stories have been told.
She should have married the suitor her father chose and saved her family. She should have accepted what was offered. Her resistance and need for 'something better' is framed as the wound that caused the catastrophe. But Sedna is in Gemini now and this is where there is never just one thing/one way to read something.
And read from inside Sedna's experience, she saw something wrong in what was being offered and she said NO. Then she was persuaded or coerced into going anyway and the bird-husband was not what he appeared, or maybe he was the husband who couldn't provide, whatever version you want to hold. Same thing in the end. So, maybe the wound isn't her narcissism. Maybe the wound is that she was right and nobody listened. Or maybe better said - she was right and she didn't listen to herself. She knew. She half-knew. She looked away from the mess of it all because to look fully would have been unbearable and she had NO OTHER OPTIONS. And then the father who should have protected her - the original authority - is the one who cuts her loose when keeping her becomes inconvenient and risky to him.
So, Sedna sitting with Uranus in Gemini at this conjunction carries all of that. The part of us, both personally and collectively, that half-knew. That looked away from what we were getting because the knowing was just too damn costly. And maybe the institutions and authorities that said this will be fine, come along and then dropped us when holding on became difficult. The wound that gets called personal failing when it is actually a structural betrayal.
So, unlike in embodied Taurus, within the Gemini duality/mutable air - we can see that Sedna is both the girl who drowned and the mother of abundance. She cannot be only one of those things. The human Sedna and the cosmic Sedna exist simultaneously and in terrible tension and neither cancels the other out.
Uranus doesn’t introduce the truth. It removes our ability not to know it. And in Gemini, that removal happens in layers/in doubles/in simultaneous realities that don’t resolve into one clean story. This is why life is so confusing now! Because what it really is, is COMPLICATED. We are not in Kansas anymore. The world is no longer so black and white. What the Sun illuminates here as Uranus reveals/awakens/surprises might be that we are being asked to look at both Sednas - at THE SAME TIME. Not to skip right to the outcome. Not to say, "well it worked out, look at the ocean, look at the abundance" because that erases the girl in the cold water who never got to come home.
But also, because Gemini is mutable air, NOT to stay only in the grief of what was done to her/us, because she/women genuinely did become something that feeds the world.
The Virgo Moon waking up and squaring all of this/this cosmic messiness feels kind of perfect. The honest inventory that doesn't look away. NOT TO FIX IT. Just to finally, clearly see it. We have been talking with the last couple New and Full Moons about seeing the 'price we are paying' and 'what things are costing us' and, of course, this is part of the collective conversation now, too (mostly about money and resources) - because as above, so below, as within, so without.
Because Uranus can liberate, yes, but it can also sever. And Sedna is what happens after the severing, when no one comes back for us. So, what the Sun/Uranus is illuminating here is not just the brilliance of what emerges. It’s the moment of clarity around WHAT IT COST.
It pays to keep in mind the old Goddess stories didn't disappear because they were untrue. They disappeared because they were inconvenient. Because the civilizations that rose to dominance needed a certain kind of cosmic order, one with a clear chain of authority. Stories of leaders who held rather than dropped us on our asses. A heroine/hero who accepted rather than refused. A feminine principle that nurtured without demanding and gave without being given to. No wonder we are all (men and women) so freaking exhausted from the missing stories and skipped steps. We likely haven't had the language we needed to tell these stories for two thousand years. WE LITERALLY DIDN'T HAVE THE WORDS! Uranus in Gemini will give them to us.
And also keep in mind - there is a particular kind of forgetting that looks like tidying up and that's something the feminine energy has gotten very, very good at.
The Goddesses were demoted/domesticated and mostly demonized. The ones who couldn't be tamed were sent to the bottom of the sea, or the underworld, or to the margins of maps. They waited. In the cold/the dark. In the deep corners where even the most industrious sweeper's broom never quite reaches. This is the dark matter in space/our so-called "junk" DNA. Maybe the great mystery of life itself. They have been waiting a very long time for us to find them.
And to "find them" which is what the Aquarian Age asks of us, personally and collectively is not to perform reverence, like the Age of Pisces. "Finding them" doesn't mean adding the Goddesses to a spiritual practice as a kind of corrective supplement. "Finding them" is to actually ask what was lost when their stories were buried.
What did we lose when we lost the story of the woman who refuses the wrong marriage and is punished for it? We lost the knowledge that refusal is sacred. That the body's knowing (Sedna in Taurus or Aries in all our birth charts), "this is wrong, I half-know something is wrong here even if I cannot name it" - is true wisdom and that the cost of overriding that knowing falls not just on the woman/man who overrides it but on everything downstream of that decision.
So, what is waking now is not just the Goddess as Uranus and the Sun. It is the part of her/our story (and this is not just about women!) we edited out to make her/us bearable. This is not a gentle remembering. It is a reckoning with what we agreed not to see and a reckoning with what it cost to look away.
And in Gemini we have to be able to do this without anything actually RESOLVING because the questions don't have answers and maybe they never will ...
Anyway I hope something here is helpful with whatever you have going on ...
xo all
My Uranian "surprise" this week - and there have already been multiple and in Gemini there will be! - was the county road department out measuring our front yard - to take some of it! - for a road widening the county thinks is needed to change the nearby traffic light from a blinking light to a regular one. We fought this same thing many years ago (Gemini does everything twice) and it was mostly stopped through the involvement of a popular local minister whose church was also to be impacted and who is no longer around.
Gemini is my 8th house (merged resources) and my natal Uranus is 10th house (authority), my natal Sun is 3rd house (local community, transportation) and Sedna is 6th (day-to-day life). Now there are a gazillion ways this combination can play out (which is why astrology is not always a terribly good way to make specific predictions without any context), but this is what has lined up.
Ironically, because, well of course, this is when this would happen - hubs and I are in the middle of remodeling our front porch/front of house - changing poles, shutters, painting, plants, etc - and have been spending alot of time out there both working, sitting and admiring the nice job we are doing :)
We are the first house on our semi-rural road off Main Street. It's not a big front yard at all, but my neighbors have almost no front yard (their houses are pretty much right on the road), so it's big in comparison. We don't want to lose any of it. Ironically as we are being told we don't own the first 15 feet or so of our property our neighbors are being told they are responsible for pipes right under the sidewalk at the street.
The traffic light/rush hour traffic is a complicated matter here that pits locals against commuters/the wider county, but what is happening with me I have noticed - and I recognize Sedna waking up here in my 8th as I carry her in my 6th - is that the last time this came up I felt almost guilty trying to protect my front yard when it would still be larger than my neighbors' front yards after the county steals a third of it (all neighbors bought their homes where they are currently placed). I felt like hubs and I should have been more amenable to the 'greater good'. Now, I don't feel anything like this, now I can clearly see that my body's REFUSAL IS SACRED. Although the idea of a fight makes me tired and cranky and wanting to take a long nap ....
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