Astrology Tutorial: Sedna in Taurus/Scorpio

What about Sedna in Taurus?
In Taurus, Sedna explores the concepts of love and loyalty. Here she experiences what it means when the two conflict. Here, too, is where she was at the time of her arrival into our conscious awareness in 2003, so Taurus is the sign where she settles in for the long haul as a potent archetype in twenty-first century astrology.

In Scorpio Sedna explores the use of power. How has she she used her power as an established figure in Inuit cosmology? How has power been used in relation to her, for or against her and her seafaring children? How does she respond today? And where does her power have authority? Is she still bound tot he Arctic, or is she Empress of the One Ocean, the sea without boundaries that isn't confined to minds or maps?

Sedna in the Taurus/Scorpio polarity?
As an astrological glyph, here brings a shamanic twist to reading the horoscope. The reader of hte chart has the map: the chart, but it's the one whose chart it is who's the final authority. No longer does the chart and the astrologer determine anything. With Sedna in Taurus, the astrologer can point out what is nurturing, what will tend to lean toward strength, where patience might become despair, and the role of hope in Now the chart can be acknowledged as a tool for consciousness shift, and here Sedna challenges astrologer, client, individual and culture to, each of us, use our power rightly.

How does mainstream culture honor and integrate traditional peoples as valuable? How do traditional people move out from under the heavy burden of passive aggressive behavior, multigenerational resentment and addiction? Perhaps we start with recognizing the gifts the Five Nations made to our Stateside sense of democracy. Didn't the original pattern include the voices of the tribes' wise old women as significantly powerful? Sedna in Taurus/Scorpio brings the relationship to power within each individual and within each culture out from behind the scenes and into the light of day for healing into genuine authority.