Sedna, the Orkneys, and the Neolithic Sites

Sedna's length of stay in each of the signs depends on where she is in her huge solar orbit. When she's at a turning point, near the sun as she is now, or farthest away, as she was 5,500 - 5,000 years ago in Neolithic times, she moves through the signs quickly. She'll spend a hundred years or so in Aries or Libra; less than a hundred years in Taurus or Scorpio. That's only an eye-blink, in a cycle that spans 10,000-11,000 years.

These are Earth-years I'm talking about, of course. Here on our planetary homeplace, figuring human experience in multiples of Sedna-years hardly computes. After all, the Neolithic sites in the Orkneys were still under construction just six Sedna-months ago .

in August 2007, I followed the influence of Sedna on my sun sign and in my tenth house to the Orkney Islands, on a vision quest to the Ring of Brodgar, Midhowe, Unsted, and other Neolithic sites. Among many other blessings, the experience opened me to the whole fascinating field of astroarcheology.

When the Orney sites were built, they were aligned with the midwinter sun, and with the movement of Venus. At that time, Sedna was at her farthest point from the sun, her farthest from the earth. I think it's fitting, somehow, that her discovery and the field of astroarcheology -- exploration of the crossover between celestial body alignments and the orientation of Neolithic sites like these -- came into public awareness at around the same time. Maybe by using the two as lenses focused together we'll unlock some of the secrets of Neolithic culture. Maybe in mainstream North America later in the twenty-first century, we'll stand again with one foot in ordinary reality and the other in non-ordinary reality, the shamanic stance as a way of life. It's a possible, even probable, fulfillment of Sedna in Taurus. Are you ready?