Higher Expression Sedna in Astrology, the Pied Piper of Hamelin and the Children
This website has a few articles on popular folk tales, like Snow White, Cinderella and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, and how they relate to Eris the Goddess of Discord and Strife in Astrology.
The article relates to Sedna the sea goddess, as it involves a community, and the leaders of a corporation, who would not honour their commitments, nor reciprocate fairly (Venus). They flatly refused to be in gratitude of another’s craft, value, and worth. They made poor, low vibrational choices, that had far-reaching consequences, that they had to live with…
After the damage had been done (Pluto), they were desperate for that opportunity for reciprocation, that they had refused, and desperate to make restitution. But the children, which represents abundance and hope for the future (11th house), were gone forever… The weeping may have been so immense, that the people had decided to create awareness, to the extent that it would reverberate through the ages, that the story would still be told 700+ years later.
Historians who have dug into the origins of some popular fables have found that from the earliest appearance of the story, there tends to be a few additions and embellishments as they got passed through the years. This seems to be normal. But what seems abnormal, is the enchanting element that these stories obviously have for people. There is a resonance, and a deep knowing of their gravity, despite the reality that they cannot be accepted as fact. Mice simply cannot be charmed or controlled by the music from a flute or pipe…
Yet, it is established fact, that the story would be told repeatedly through the generations, images gawked at, and re-telling listened to by people of all ages. It is an astonishing phenomenon…
This video shows, that to this very day, there is a thriving tourism industry in the German city of Hamelin, as people from all over the world come to investigate the tale, that had been traced back to over 700 years ago. It is depicted in the stained glass windows of the church installed somewhere in the 13 hundreds. There are entries in the town’s ledger and surviving text of so-called eye witness accounts (from the 14th and 15th century). There is also a 500 year old inscription that can be found in one of Hamelin’s oldest buildings, known as the Pied Piper’s House. It reads:
“AD. 1284 - On the 26th of June - the day of St John and St Paul - 130 children - born in Hamelin - were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing the cavalry near the Koppenberg they disappeared forever.”
It’s a story of mystery and sabotage. Denial and innocence lost. Of moral considerations and cause and effect. It has curiosity and charm, and the story has many Sedna elements in it.
A downloadable PDF copy of Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin (illustrated by Kate Greenaway), can be found by this link thanks to the British Library. Therefore only brief snippets of the story will be covered in this article. It is a narrative poem of 303 lines, and was originally published in 1842.
A Scary Vermin Problem in Hamelin
A rat infestation plagued the town of Hamelin in Germany.
Rats “fought the dogs and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats, and licked the soup from the cook’s own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats. Made nest inside men’s Sunday hats, and even spoiled the women’s chats, by drowning their speaking with shrieking and squeaking, in fifty different sharps and flats.”
Exasperated with the lack of action by those in charge, who did nothing to cure the problem, the town’s folk flocked to the Town Hall. They cried: “Tis clear our Mayor’s a noddy; and as for our corporation - shocking. To think we buy gowns lined with ermine, for dolts that can’t or won’t determine, what’s best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you’re old and obese, to find in the furry civic robe ease?”
“Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking, to find the remedy we’re lacking. Or, sure as fate, we’ll send you packing!”
At this the Mayor and Corporation quaked with a mighty consternation…
The Pied Piper was Willing to Work his Magic
For a return of a 1,000 guilders. But was offered 50,000 instead…
As the council, who had grown fat, rich and lazy off of the spoils of their position, sat and racked their brains on how to trap the vermin, in stepped a tall stranger that offered a solution…
He wore a ”queer” long coat from head to heel, and nobody could enough admire his quaint attire. The man with sharp blue eyes had an otherworldly air about him, and after he approached the council-table, explained that he was able
“…by means of a secret charm, to draw all creatures living beneath the sun, that creep or swim or fly or run, after me so as you never saw!”
“And I chiefly use my charm on creatures that do people harm.”
The man with the red and yellow striped scarf, with a pipe dangling from it, explained that people called him the Pied Pier, and that as poor as he was, he had freed many others from the disasters that had plagued them.
The Pied Piper played his pipe. To rid the town of Rats.
After leaving the council chambers, the Pied Piper stepped into the street, and with a confident smile he put his pipe to his lips.
As the notes came from the pipe, there was an army that at first muttered, then grew into a rumbling, and a mighty roaring. From all the houses and structures, came tumbling rats of all shapes and sizes. They all followed the Pied Piper from street to street, as he walked and played the pipe, and the vermin dancing after him step for step. Until they came to the river Weser, where all of the vermin except one, plunged into and perished in watery doom.
The people of Hamelin broke out in rejoice.
They rang the bells, and the Mayor sprang into action and ordered them to get long poles and destroy all the nests, and block up the holes. To make sure that there is no trace of them. The Mayor also ordered that the carpenters and builders be consulted for the rebuild, but the Piper looked at him and said:
“First, if you please, my thousand guilders!”
The Pied Piper did not insist on more than he asked for…
”A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue; so did the corporation too. For council dinners made rare havoc, with Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock; and half the money would replenish their cellar’s biggest butt with Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow, with a gipsy coat of red and yellow!”
“Besides,” quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, “our business was done at the river’s brink. We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, and what’s dead can’t come to life, I think. So, friend, we’re not the folks to shrink, from the duty of giving you something to drink, and a matter of money to put in your poke, but as for the guilders, what we spoke. Of them, as you very well know, was in joke.”
The mayor came up with some shenanigans and business tactics, to construe a gain from the situation, once more.
Explaining instead, that due to the town suffering losses, they needed to be thrifty, and could not give him what they had promised, nor his full worth. Only 50 guilders. Not the 1,000 he had asked for, nor the 50,000 as they had exclaimed. The greedy opportunists, users and mind-game players wanted the upper hand, to plot, and for the Piper to settle and accept the bare minimum. They wanted him to take a loss and feel defeated.
“Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons. ”
Far-Reaching Consequences for not giving another their due
The Piper’s face fell, and he cried that he could not wait, as he had another appointment. He also refused to “bate a stiver”, which means that he will not reduce his price by even as little as a small silver coin. Offended and insulted, the Mayor questioned wether the Piper were in a position to threaten them? The Mayor exclaimed:
“You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst. Blow your pipe there till you burst!”
Once again the piper stepped into the street, and put the pipe to his lips. And as he blew three notes, there was a rustling and a bustling. A merry crowd of children poured from their mother’s skirts, and out of their houses. Small feet pattering, wooden shoes clattering, and little tongues chattering, running and skipping towards the magical music with laughter.
And the Mayor and his council stood mute, as if they had turned into blocks of wood. Unable to make a movement or a sound, frozen as the children went skipping by.
The Mayor and his council could only follow with their bulging eyes and racing hearts, as the Piper turned, with the children in tow, from the High street, towards where the Weser flowed… Where was he taking their children?
However… the Piper made yet another turn… towards Koppelberg Hill instead…
The party joyfully marched to the music until a mystical door in the mountain side suddenly opened, and shut behind the last child… except for one that was lame and could not dance all the way.
The lame boy would in later years explain that:
“It’s dull in our town since my playmates left! I can’t forget that I’m bereft, of all the pleasant sights they see, which the Piper also promised me.”
“For he led us, he said, to a joyous land. Joining the town and just at hand, where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew, and flowers put forth a fairer hue… And just as I became assured, my lame foot would be speedily cured, the music stopped and I stood still, and found myself outside the hill. Left alone against my will, to go now limping as before, and never hear of that country more!”
Clearly the lame boy was distraught at losing out on the abundance the others were now enjoying…
FOMO. Fear of Missing Out, indeed…
The Mayor sent East, West, North and South, to offer the Piper, by word of mouth, silver and gold to his heart’s content. If he’d only return the way he went, and bring the children behind him.
But then they saw ‘twas a lost endeavour, and Piper and dancers were gone forever. And they made a decree that lawyers should always remember the day.
“The twenty-second of July, thirteen hundred and seventy-six.”
And so it also came to be known that if we make a commitment, we should keep it. Don’t under-value people. Be grateful for the things you have in your life, because you may not comprehend the deeper dynamics of what a relation is now, and what potential it has to blossom into something great. 130 Children were lost to the town’s folk, an entire generation, except for the lame boy who could not dance fast enough. The moral of the story is, that everyone has value.
Moral Fibre: Honour your Commitments.
The mothers of the town must have grieved tremendously. The entire community had lost out, and in their collective grief and sorrow may have turned on the cold hearted, god-complex entitled, who had made unwise choices.
Without a next generation, what would the future of the town look like? Who would work and fill the coffers, for the greedy council to engorge themselves on? They had lost out too, for who will nurture and care for them in their old age?
What really happened in Hamelin, no one knows for sure, but it is clear that its inhabitants felt it pressed on the heart to pass on the importance of what had happened, else another suffer a similar unimaginable loss.
Previous Eris and Sedna stories on this website, demonstrate clearly the great loss that people may suddenly suffer in relation, when one party thinks that they have the upper hand, may try to exploit the other, thinking that they will get away with it. The tyrant, potentially having no idea of the consequences that their actions would have, as a result of abuse of power. This has become quite evident during 2020-2021 as Eris squared Pluto.
The story of Eris and of Sedna has many elements in it regarding an authoritative figure, the one in position of power with business tactics, who thinks he has the upper hand, but he does not understand the nature of the person he made into his opponent.
This is a story of suffering unimaginable loss, and finally learning that painful lesson in relation.
And it being passed on from generation to generation, to avoid it happening again. Isn’t that the same theme in Cinderella? That one should not treat another person badly, for you never know what their ultimate destiny is, and if you underestimate them, or treat them poorly, you may be out of a situation, or relationship with them in the future, that may have been highly valuable to you. This is the story of Maleficent as told by Disney as well. The lesson? That acting out in greed, may end up creating your own undoing. Snow White? When you are in denial, as the Evil Queen was, who looked in her mirror, and preferred an alternative version; that suited her vanity and pride instead. The Evil Queen ended up wasting her life, by devoting it to killing her rival, instead of appreciating that she was already in a privileged position, which she might have enjoyed instead of focussing, or obsessing over another’s destruction…
Blame, Projection and Scapegoating?
Who is to Blame ? ? ?
The Pied Piper for leading the children away, which just happens to be to a happier place?
Or the town leaders in positions of power who wanted to be selfish, and refused to be fair and reciprocate?
There is consequences when leaders, especially those of large corporations and those politicians in legislative roles, expect another party to take some kind of loss. They may get used to doing this in business and politics, having screwed over many in the past.
Until that next perceived opportunity comes along, to take a selfish gain, and they underestimate, what it is going to cost them, in disadvantaging that person…
Value, Worth, Discredit and Karmic Relationships
The Pied Piper was not afforded the worth in the eyes of the leaders, despite providing an invaluable service.
They had their own agenda that they wanted to execute, which involved the Piper. They saw the benefit that the Piper brought, but want to be a player.
The Piper asked only a thousand guilders, but was told he was to have fifty thousand if he had succeeded. The Piper did succeed - that very same day - in getting rid of the vermin. Yet the Mayor, having considered the costly celebration feast the council members would be having later, wanted to hoard from himself, and was only willing to give fifty guilders.
The lesson was not to discount or discredit anybody, and not to treat anyone poorly. It happens in karmic relationships that people tend to keep having the same cycles, with different people, over and over, until they learn to recognise the lesson for themselves. The lesson of being in integrity in relation. Fortunately, the Piper knew that this was not a relation worth investing in, as the council members brought to the table, nothing of worth in relation. He chose to walk away.
It is people like Sedna’s selfish, indignant father Anguta, who wanted her to always put him first, and sacrifice herself.
Anguta was up in his head about how things needed to be, and never grounded in his heart. And when it came time for Sedna to put herself first, he had a problem with it, lashing out. In relationship, there are times when you realise that you had been betrayed and fooled, and the relation had in fact always been one sided. Emotional needs were not met, there was no genuine reciprocity, nor expression of feeling. There was only
shallowness and lack of emotional depth. With one party who hoards for themselves all the benefits, wanting everyone to give them a sense of self-esteem while they are in a position in a community, getting ego-boosts. Self-esteem is something that a person or group of people gain based off outside sources, of how they are perceived by other people. It is based off perception and interpretation of that reality. Yet Self-worth naturally enhances self-esteem, feelings of true value, knowing one is worthy of abundance, and provides genuine self-confidence, as it is sourced from within.
It is because of the confusion between self-esteem vs Self-worth, that many battles are fought in relation. They are not the same.
Both Sedna and Eris has many worth and value issues, as can be gleaned from their discovery charts.
And a person, who after trials and tribulations, finds truth, wisdom and clarity, about who they really were in the relation, have the right to choose not to invest in an empty relation anymore.
Clearly the Mayor and this overweight, self-indulgent council members only cared for their own cushy situations, and the spoils that could be derived from getting fake self-esteem, ego-boosts and fattening feasts, from their position of authority over others.
Having political power and in charge of how money is spent. Having gotten away with being all-talk, uncaring and unemotional for a long time… not stepping up, showing up or doing the work. Being fake. With underhanded nastiness. Why did they have a dangerous rat infestation in the first place? They were lazy, stubborn and took no action… when the problem was in its infancy. Relationship is a back and forth commitment, and the only commitment here, was to be selfish, and getting away with pretending to care…
Paying the Piper
Due to not Reciprocating and Showing Morally Appropriate Gratitude
“Define Pay the Piper
1. to take responsibility for what one owes or deserves;
2. suffering the repercussions of your own self-indulgent actions;
3. to accept and to bear the consequences for some thoughtless or rash action or circumstance;
4. to pay or be in debt for one’s inconsiderate fun or pleasures;
5. to bear the ill-effects of something that was enjoyable at one time.”
There are multiple stories on this website about the god-complex people and the narcissists. Some people are literally “walking bad luck” due to all the karma they have accumulated in relation; nothing good happens for them. And if you keep these people around you, it is like their dark cloud hovers over you as well, because they are so low vibrational and karmic in relation. That dark energy rubs off on others.
As the Pied Piper first stepped towards the council table, he told them that he “chiefly used his charm on creatures that do people harm”.
It is certain that the greedy council members of the corporation never picked up on the truth, nor the irony in his words…
Hindsight is 20/20…
Sedna in astrology is about over-riding power issues, and powerlessness.
And a ‘karmic flood’ coming in to dig up, and deal with unresolved power struggles from the past in all humans, but especially pulling on the ego and unresolved power issues of the leaders of the world. Power is a very seductive illusion. It doesn’t like being revealed nor illuminated as such. This is what Sedna higher expression eventually realises, refusing to get sucked into power games, not choosing sides. Having compassion, yet choosing to distance herself. Standing behind a short wall; observing.
The Astrological Significance of the Pied Piper and Sedna
Multiple previous articles explored the discovery chart of Sedna, and the cluster of Venus/Mercury/Pluto in Sagittarius in the 11th house, and the potential that this poses.
To grow in maturity, and using the chaos of relation for alchemy, which is what this website is essentially about.
It involves triggering, lessons in relation, catalysts for change and great potentials. These aspects echo strong themes of a person being taken advantage of, trauma in the rite of passage, and ultimately, beautiful total transformation. In the negative extreme, this conjunction of planets involve the experience of power dynamics, dysfunctional relations, condition-based expectations, energy stealing and narcissistic behaviour. This article explores in great detail how the cluster of planets are in the eleventh house, and deals with society, social circles, humanitarian pursuits and involvement with one’s community.
Sedna goddess of the sea is a singular Inuit woman, who through a tough relationship with her father, and the expectations of the community, has to find her way. As she struggles with feeling worthless and devalued, judged wrongfully, disturbed at being brutally cut off, and roiling in the pain of being treated so cruelly, Sedna discovers that she held illusions. Having to grieve the loss of her illusions about her father and the relationship. That it is toxic and morally bankrupt, and no amount of sugarcoating will make it right. Coming out of denial, choosing not to play victim, and the truth setting her free…
Sedna was brutally cut off in relation.
Sedna had to allow a surrender and death of an old identity and state of being, so as to move from personal identity into expanded consciousness, and gain the epic abundance that comes from within, from an energetic state. No longer indulging in unforgiveness.
Sedna was able to turn her father’s lack of loyalty and the one-sided relationship, into a blessing for her Self, by going home to the core of her Self, her being.
Choosing healthy relation, and loyalty to Self as the source of self-authority, over unhealthy relation with others, where their bad choices affected her view of Self. Knowing what she will stand for, and what not. Letting it all go, freeing her Self, for a gain. Being rewarded with truth and clarity.
Like the Pied Piper who knew his worth, and would not budge. In confident knowing of Self.
And also the children - who were pure of heart and authentic - who heard the call of the divine, and deliberately took the spiritual gain, although it seemed like they were charmed into it… And the Piper demonised for seemingly “taking them”… There had been a cut off in relation, yet a significant gain was taken by the innocent and pure of heart.
This is the crux of the story. The win at all cost, brutal battle and game playing of the greedy power mongers were dropped, and a new, spiritually rich life was chosen instead. This is why Master Jesus told his followers that they must become like little children, pure, innocent and shine their light, to enjoy the delights of ‘heaven’ here on earth. To elevate and be of a higher vibration, enjoying the benefits of a joyful higher dimension or existence.
Like Eris, Sedna is the choice between our higher Self, and our lower self.
Sedna In Mundane Astrology
In mundane astrology, the 11th house cluster is the scheming, devaluation and exploitation of the earth’s natural resources, by social consent, entitlement, and by taking social license, to expand corporate investments, international relations and trade. It is government and big business in developed countries in particular, that brutally cut off in relation, what they deem the competition.
There are many small-scale businesses and small-scale family farmers disadvantaged by excessive red tape and scale-inappropriate regulation, deliberately enabling big corporate business to flourish instead.
The legal system has obligation towards all parties, but lacks moral and ethical responsibility to be fair and to give equal opportunity.
Disadvantaging, sacrificing and betraying the little guy. Being one-sided in relation. Not caring, nor giving an inch… With gaslighting truth/lies are utilised to create love/hate in relationship, blurring the lines, desecrating the trust in relationships; to make the small business owners and small scale farmers feel that they are not worthy and they don’t have value in society.
The laws and over-regulation forcing them into defeat. Hopes and dreams dashed. Explain how that is fair? And now that the world’s global food supply chain is suffering, and some grocery store shelves are empty. What now? It’s karma time, for a previous season of ravaging savages, when legislative changes were passed, that greatly benefits international trade and export, and disadvantages local food systems, that would otherwise be more robust for food security and job security at present.
Government policy and legislation, will have to pay the piper, and experience unfavourable consequences for having giving big business and big investment free reign to their self-indulgent actions, to disadvantage small businesses and conscious consumers.
Video: Book Reading of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Video: A book reading. Publication Date: 1888 Usage: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication). The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, a free-use public domain recording, courtesy of LibriVox: https://librivox.org/ The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend from the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored clothing, who was a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. But then the citizens refuse to pay for this service, and he retaliates by using his instrument's magic power on their children, leading them away like he did with the rats. This version of the tale is beautifully illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Sedna Transits 2020 - 2026
Sedna move extremely slowly. Find a Sedna Ephemeris here.
Where Pluto takes 248 odd years, and
Eris about 556 to complete an orbit around the sun,
Sedna takes a whopping 11,390 odd years with her long, highly elliptical orbit.
Sedna was conjunct fix star Algol at 27 Taurus when Co-Vid took off in January 2020.
Sedna started her conjunction with the Pleiades in 2020 until 2028.
Sedna moved into the Critical degree of 29 degrees Taurus in July 2021.
The North Node starts the conjunction to Sedna in January to March 2022.
Mercury enters its retrograde phase conjunct Sedna at 26 Taurus on 26 April until 19 June.
Transit Pluto starts its trine to Sedna in January 2023 - December 2025.
Transit Saturn in Aquarius goes retrograde, and squares Sedna starting February to December 2023.
Uranus starts a wide conjunction with Sedna in September 2024 - July 2026.
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