Understanding Sedna through Books, Variations in the Tale, and Other Inuit Stories
Sedna is the Inuit Goddess of the Sea and Marine Animals
In Western astrology, Sedna energy has already been described at length in the Sedna Blog, therefore an introduction is hardly necessary, so we’ll keep it brief…
She is the both Goddess of the Deep Abyss, who dwells in the deepest, most inaccessible part of the Arctic Ocean, and far outer reaches of known space as the dwarf planet. She is a mere 50 years from within her closest brush to Earth. Sedna’s watery energies are affecting each of us as individuals, resulting in some mental health crises, and icy, stuck emotions. Having to wade through intense psychologically buried emotions of frozen anger, resentment, disappointment etc. that comes up from the depths, due to betrayal and neglect. Needing to become unstuck; to forgive, heal and find renewal, in your own energy. Being abundant, giving, and more loving than before.
There is already a fast reservoir of information on Sedna’s discovery chart, a dissection of the Hammer of Thor and Yod on Saturn in the 6th house, the Venus, Mercury, Pluto cluster in Sagittarius in the 11th house, as well as many interpretations on the link to corona virus, food shortages, greed, selfishness, entitlement, etc.
Also about the Sedna Yod with Ixion sextile Haumea and how it activated coronavirus awareness on a global scale when it conjunct malefic fixed star Algol in 2020.
This article is meant as supporting evidence of the Inuit’s Sedna tale and its connection to astrological Sedna energy.
This is for a deeper understanding, of Sedna energy that is evident through the Inuit’s stories and the values conveyed.
It is often in the week leading up to a Sedna station to go retrograde, that people get a very strong taste of Sedna energy. This is what is happening as this article is written and published. Many people report feeling very mentally stressed, unable to work or just out of sorts. Also needing to take time off work, rest and relax. The energy can be described as heavy, thick and highly conscious but also tiring beyond words… Be kind to others when you see they are not coping… for Sedna is at the apex of a Yod, and will be beyond 2030, also becoming a Hammer apex beyond 2030.
Tales the Eskimo Tell, Selected and Retold
by Dorothy Morrison
It is very clear from Inuit (Eskimo is considered a derogatory term today) tales that wisdom was greatly valued and adhered to, and were retold over many, many generations.
The Inuit people knew how to live in harmony with nature, as a force that takes care of them in turn, when the spiritual balance between life forms are maintained.
In Sedna’s tales, the Angakok was a wise man who acts as a priest, prophet, and doctor, also a shaman who connects on a soul level for wisdom seeking; particularly in times of trouble when there is food shortages, due to spiritual starvation and moral depravity in the community, that is causing imbalance in the cycle of life.
To the right is the inside front page of a book with some beautiful tales. It was kindly digitised, archived and made available with funding from the University of Toronto, read the FREE version here. The first publication seems to have been published in 1900.
Please note that Sedna’s tale is not included in this particular, small publication, but readers who know Sedna’s tale, will recognised the underlying themes are very similar. It’s about appreciating what you have, helping other people who need support, and not taking people for granted. And to guard against the evil of greed, abusing other’s generosity, bringing shame over yourself and moral decay.
Eskimo Folk-Tales
by Knud Rasmussen
This is another great book about Inuit tales first published in 1921, and it contains a story about Nerrivik on page 112, which is one of the native Inuit names by which Sedna was known. Click to read the FREE version here or in this version here.
The men who hunted Sedna’s sea creatures called her Nerrivik because she gives them food (Nerrivik is Polar Inuit, "the place of the food"). Knud Rasmussen, was a Danish pioneering Arctic anthropologist who recorded the oral stories and legends told to him. He has other books about his travels and interactions with the Inuit of the arctic regions as well. He writes in the introduction: “The aim of the Eskimo story-teller is to pass the time during the long hours of darkness; if he can send his hearers to sleep, he achieves a triumph. Not infrequently a story-teller will introduce his chef-d’œuvre with the proud declaration that “no one has ever heard this story to the end.” The telling of the story thus becomes a kind of contest between his power of sustained invention and detailed embroidery on the one hand and his hearers’ power of endurance on the other. Nevertheless, the stories are not as interminable as might be expected; we find also long and short variants of the same theme. In the present selection, versions of reasonable length have been preferred. The themes themselves are, of course, capable of almost infinite expansion.”
“The mythical stories present some interesting features when compared with the beliefs and folk-lore of other peoples. The legend of the Men who travelled round the World is based on a conception of the world as round. There is the tradition of a deluge, but here supported by geological evidence which is appreciated by the natives themselves: i.e. the finding of mussel shells on the hills far inland. The principle of the tides is recognised in what is otherwise a fairy tale; “There will be no more ebb-tide or flood if you strangle me,” says the Moon Man to the Obstinate One.”"
To the right is an image of a man and wife from Angmassalik, from this particular book.
Image: Illustration by George L. Carlson; Plate 1 of A treasury of Eskimo tales by Clara K. Bayliss via Wikimedia Commons
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
by Clara Kern Bayliss
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. The first group of tales were told by the Central Eskimos. The Second group were derived from the Eskimo living along Bering strait to the west.
Click here to read the FREE book or read it here.
Global Health Crises? Mental Health Crises?
Why is exploring Sedna energy important?
Consider other articles on this website, that explains Sedna’s clear connection to recent viruses and public health crises.
The World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency for the following events, and all of them had the Sedna Yod active within 2 - 3 degrees orb:
Image: Corona Virus via Wikimedia Commons.
24 July 2022 — Monkeypox (Sedna Yod apex at 29 degrees Taurus the crisis degree conjunct the Pleiades and Alcyone)
31 January 2020 — COVID-19 (Sedna Yod apex at 26 Taurus conjunct Algol, with Haumea sextile Ixion)
1 August 2018-20 — Kivu Ebola (Sedna Yod apex at 27 Taurus conjunct Algol, with Haumea sextile Ixion)
April 2016 — Zika virus (Sedna Yod apex at 24 Taurus conjunct Algol, with Haumea sextile Ixion)
March 2014 — Ebola (Sedna Yod apex at 23 Taurus, with Haumea sextile Ixion)
5 May 2014 — Polio (Sedna Yod apex at 23 Taurus, with Haumea sextile Ixion)
January 2009 — Swine flu (Sedna Yod at 20 Taurus with Haumea sextile Ixion, Sedna square Chiron)
Even though Kuiper belt object Ixion ceases to be a leg in the Sedna Yod in 2024, another bright KBO Varda takes over as a leg in 2025, taking the Sedna Yod beyond 2030.
The Energetic Signature of COVID, Long COVID, and how it Corresponds to the Themes in Sedna’s Tale
The very first article written on Sedna’s energy signature, explains how the energies of COVID, and Long COVID corresponds to the experience where Sedna spent time on the arctic island in isolation and what she experienced there, which entails the loss and sense of time, identity dissolution, going within, complete loss of an old way of being, and eventually connecting to a new identity as soul self; as divine having a human experience for a short time. This won’t be reiterated, nor explored in this article though.
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The cost of living, food, fuel, inflation, housing, rent, interest rate hikes, and electricity bills are rising all around… and in some flood ravaged areas there is a massive housing crisis. Mankind still seem to have a phobia when it comes to not having toilet paper… as these shelves have been on the empty side for a long time… Sedna energy is strong in our collective consciousness right now, since it conjuncted malefic star Algol and the Pleiades at the start of 2020.