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Dear Sedna. Welcome to my ascendent. I always connected with you since reading your terrible story to my children (not without some revulsion) but there it is ... the father pushing his daughter away from the safety of the boat. xo

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It's a brutal myth, or so it seems. I've learned, working on delineating these things (meaning new planets) for many years, with the assistance of masters such as Tracy Delaney and Melanie Reinhart, to use the mythology sparingly. It's always there...though there are many levels, including the shape of the story and working back from the final outcome to the point of origin. We start with a seemingly vain girl, obsessed with herself, looking in the mirror and brushing her hair, who is too good for any suitor...who ends up creating the dolphins, whales, seals, etc. The 'story' is how we got from one place to another.

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Of course the varied tellings of the tale will influence the reader. I was caught according to my version, by the betrayal of the father. This resonated for me, and Sedna's submersion into the depths made beautiful by her creations, somehow salvaged the story from its inherent brutality.

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Oh that's in the tale, in every version I have heard, and it's a big issue in our time — thouh so is the betrayal by the mother. I do not mean to diminish your personal experience. Remember, this is a creation myth. It's not an ordinary story or typical psychological tale. it's accounting for a vast swath of creation itself, and the cetaceans et al feed the Inuit people. It's the story of how and why they are able to eat. The "betrayal" facilitates that purpose. At every stage of the myth she is still the Goddess of creation. She contains all of those creatures within her. She is them. One way to look at this in an objective way is to say, don't let your personal drama and sacrifice obstruct your view of your larger purpose.

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Or see now betrayal is the conduit necessary for expansion and the hardest role is the parents who were not able to provide for you. The question becomes how we look at betrayal .

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Yes, betrayal can be a driver when one survives and is able to build fortitude & a deeper (sea metaphor) understanding of the human condition, regardless of who perpetrates it.

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Yes that is getting there. I still wonder what was going on in this story, below the surface. Melanie Reinhart's key phrase for Sedna is "Keep your heart open in hell."

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I can't help but relate this to being "knighted" in which one is sent into hell with an open heart of fealty, to be killed (death of innocence or literal) & reborn?

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On fire! 🔥

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