Sedna Orbit

Sedna is an odd object due to a hugely long orbital cycle of 11,408 years around the sun, which makes even Pluto's orbit seem speedy by comparison. That number alone may make it seem like it can be mostly ignored and/or treated like a fixed star, but... it's not... its orbit is extremely elliptical. From an ephemeris point of view it takes over a millenium at the far end, but only decades at the near end. And if you haven't paid attention to Sedna at all, you might want to, because we're approaching the near end.

The data only goes back around 5000 years (to 3000 BCE), but it's enough to give a quick synopsis of its sign progression since around the dawn of recorded civilisation. Note that I sampled the below information only once a year; for our purposes in this conversation it's close enough, but you can hedge the ingresses by half a year on either side.

At that time, Sedna had only recently ingressed into Scorpio (a few decades earlier), and was at roughly 0 degrees 18 minutes. It would stay in Scorpio for roughly the next 1559 years, until 1441 BCE.

Then it was in Sagittarius for about 1417 years, until 24 BCE. Then Capricorn for 1071 years, until 1047 CE when it ingressed into Aquarius.

So far we're still over a millenium per sign, but it's been steadily falling, and now things are speeding up. It "only" stays in Aquarius for roughly 586 years, until 1633 CE. Then Pisces for 232 years, until 1864 CE when it ingressed into Aries (doing a retrograde dance until finally settling in 1867). It was there for only about 100 years until 1965 CE when it first ingressed into Taurus (finally settling in 1968), where it is now.

Sedna won't be in Taurus for much longer, though. The first ingress into Gemini will be mid-late June 2023, and it won't dance for long; by late April 2024 it'll be firmly in Gemini until 2065... for only around four decades, compared to over a millenium at its opposition.

Then it'll also only be in Cancer for around four decades until 2107, when it ingresses into Leo and things start taking longer again. That's the end of the data. (source)

From the perspective of recorded civilisation, this orbit of Sedna as it moves closer to the sun, is spending less time in each zodiac sign, appearing to make leaps and bounds as it is moving towards its closest brush with the earth, in a mere 50 years.

First Sedna spends millenia in a sign, then centuries, then only decades…

For people tied to the thought of perpetually-accelerating "progress", something like this would seem at a glance like a classic hockey stick of civilisational / technological / cultural / economic advancement. And yet here we have an example of something that's still "just" cyclical, albeit an extremely long cycle with a highly elliptical orbit.

Sedna's furthest distance reaches out into the most icy, unknown part of interstellar space, the Oort cloud. We do have some recorded history of what life was like the last time it was this close to earth; which was explored in this article. And yet for people being born right now, Sedna will progress through several signs during the course of a natural life. It could also have interactions with outer planets that could add additional unpredictability, like when Uranus conjuncts Sedna early in its Gemini transit, adding a new consideration to the already-volatile history of Uranus in Gemini. Sedna is not a fixed star, and is increasingly ‘moving faster’. It's sometimes epochal, and sometimes generational. And it's got more movement going on now and during this next century than we've seen since the beginning of recorded history. When combined with all the other major outer planet changes happening in 2023, this cannot be ignored.

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"Sedna speaks of betrayal, resentment and revenge; of frozen emotion, how we cling on, why we do and what happens when we finally surrender to our ‘fate’.

She’s an intimidating and imposing force who must be appeased; the withholding mother who demands an apology before love is restored. She is every part of us that we cannot bear to see, remember, experience, admit to. She is the shadow of humanity and the emptiness at its core. Sedna is coming into her own at this time, for what was once hidden in the icy depths is now bobbing on the surface for all to see. The collective shadow has never been more apparent, more insistent, more desperately fighting for its own survival."

Sarah Varcas, Astrologer on Sedna