Sedna, Thawing the Frozen Voice

At the beginning of the year, much focus was put on the 1st degree of Aries. The “ Aries Point” as we call it. We were interested in that point because to two planetary ingresses were happening there. Saturn and Neptune.

Now that they’ve both made their move, it’s time for us to shift focus and look at the 1st degree of Gemini. As this is the place of our next planetary ingress. Uranus in July.

While this degree doesn’t have a fancy name like the “Gemini Point”, it is an interesting degree for another reason. Because it’s where Sedna sits.

Sedna is a trans Neptunian object. Her orbit is over 11,000 years long. She is one of the furthest solar system objects we’ve ever found. So it is significant that she’s just moved into Gemini in April of 2024. She will remain in Gemini through 2067.

Let’s look at the Myth of Sedna

Sedna was once a mortal woman, often described as beautiful, wild, and mysterious. In many versions of the story, she lived with her father in a coastal village. Her father wished to marry her off, but Sedna refused every suitor. She remained independent, uninterested in the men who came to court her.

Eventually, a stranger arrived. Sometimes he appeared as a handsome man, other times as a man cloaked in feathers. He promised Sedna a life of abundance and luxury if she would become his wife. Sedna reluctantly agreed and left with him in his kayak, only to discover too late that he was not a man at all. He was a spirit bird, or raven, who had tricked her. He took her to a cold, barren island where she lived in misery, isolated and trapped.

Her cries eventually reached her father, who, filled with guilt and regret, set off to rescue her. He brought her into his kayak to take her home. But as they fled, the bird-spirit followed them, enraged. A storm rose on the sea. The waves grew monstrous. In his terror, Sedna’s father did the unthinkable.

He pushed her overboard.

As she clung to the side of the boat, desperate to survive, her father took his paddle and struck her fingers to make her let go. One by one, her frozen fingers broke off and sank into the sea. From her severed fingers, the sea mammals were born, seals, whales, walruses. The beings that would feed and sustain the Inuit people.

Sedna sank to the bottom of the sea, betrayed and dismembered, but she did not die. She transformed. She became a goddess of the deep, ruler of the underworld ocean. From her watery realm, she controls the animals of the sea. When humans act with disrespect or imbalance, Sedna withholds the hunt. When the people forget to honor her, the animals disappear.

To restore balance, shamans must journey to the bottom of the sea. They must descend into her dark, cold realm and comb her tangled hair, hair she cannot untangle herself because she has no fingers. The act of combing her hair is symbolic. It is a ritual of care, of reverence, of making amends. Only then will Sedna release the animals and allow life to flow again.

Let’s look at some of the Archetypal Themes in Sedna’s Myth…

Betrayal by the Father. Sedna is cast into the sea by the very one who should protect her. This deep betrayal speaks to collective and personal wounds of abandonment, especially those rooted in the failure of masculine protection.

Dismemberment and Transformation. Her body is broken, but from that destruction new life is born. This is a powerful metaphor for the way pain and trauma can birth new consciousness and new resources, often through non-linear and sacred pathways.

Exile and Sovereignty. Though Sedna is banished, she becomes sovereign. She rules from the depths. Her transformation into a goddess reveals the soul’s ability to claim power even from its most broken places.

The Feminine as Keeper of Ecological Balance.

Sedna is not just a goddess of pain. She is the regulator of sustenance. She reminds us that our relationship to nature must be reciprocal and reverent. When the feminine is ignored or dishonored, nature withholds its gifts.

Healing Through Ritual Reconciliation. The only way to soothe Sedna is through ritual care. This reminds us that healing ancestral and feminine wounds requires humility, attention, and the willingness to journey into the depths.

Sedna’s story is not only a tale of tragedy. It is a myth of sacred initiation. She teaches that even the most exiled and dismembered parts of ourselves hold divine power. That what has been lost beneath the surface must be remembered, honored, and tended with devotion. Only then can the frozen begin to thaw. Only then can the sea release its bounty.

Sedna in Gemini. Thawing the Frozen Voice

Sedna moves slowly through the vast edges of the solar system, carrying the memory of betrayal, abandonment, and the sacred mysteries hidden beneath the surface of consciousness. When she journeys through Gemini, her ancient, oceanic depth merges with the realm of air, thought, and voice. Here, in this meeting, the frozen stories of the past stir.

Gemini is the sign of language, communication, breath, the nervous system, and the exchange of ideas. It rules the twin impulses of inquiry and information. Sedna carries a myth soaked in the cold waters of exile, a myth where the voice was once severed, fingers broken, survival wrested from the loss of trust. When Sedna passes through Gemini, she asks not for quick answers or easy dialogue. She asks for the unfreezing of the places where words have been locked away. She invites the thawing of truths too painful to name.

In Gemini’s airy domain, thought is fluid, but Sedna brings weight. She sinks into the currents of the mind, seeking the stories beneath the stories, the words that were never spoken, the cries swallowed for safety. Gemini teaches communication, but Sedna reminds us that not all communication is surface. Some of it must rise from the sea-floor of the psyche, slow, deliberate, trembling with the salt of memory.

Healing under Sedna’s watch in Gemini does not come from cleverness or speed. It comes from the willingness to listen differently, to speak differently, to let the breath touch the deepest silences within. It asks us to become translators of the unsaid, midwives of the unspeakable. Gemini’s gift is versatility, but Sedna demands depth. Together they weave a new kind of language, one that is less about information and more about reclamation.

The nervous system, ruled by Gemini, carries the imprint of past wounds. Under Sedna’s influence, we may find that thought itself feels tender, that the mind becomes a vessel not only for ideas but for ancient griefs. Healing asks for patience. Breath becomes medicine. Words become rituals. Conversation becomes ceremony.

Sedna in Gemini reveals how much healing is needed in the space between mind and heart. She reminds us that clarity is not only an intellectual achievement. It is an emotional reckoning. It is the slow unwinding of survival patterns that taught us to stay silent. It is the thawing of dissociation and the remembering of how to feel and speak at once.

This transit teaches that storytelling can be sacred, not for entertainment or performance, but as a form of soul retrieval. Every word spoken from the depths brings back a piece of what was lost. Every breath drawn with awareness unbinds the frozen self just a little more.

Sedna in Gemini is not a call to speak more. It is a call to speak true. It is an invitation to use language not as a shield, but as a bridge. Not as a performance, but as a prayer. She teaches that the mind, when purified by grief and truth, becomes a sacred current through which deeper wisdom can flow.

In her quiet, inexorable way, Sedna in Gemini invites us to listen for the words we have not yet dared to say. To breathe with them. To speak them into the air. And in doing so, to free the parts of ourselves still clinging to the edge of the boat, still waiting to be remembered.