Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Sedna
The old abandonment tends to reach you through other people. With Sedna opposite your Ascendant, anchored on the relationship end of the axis, the theme of betrayal and the deep wound lives in those you meet, so others become the ones who cast you off, leave, or fail to reach the depth in you, and the abandonment wound replays through relationship. You may draw those who abandon, or be the one left in the cold by people who should have stayed. The gift is a profound recognition between you and others who have survived the depths. The shadow is expecting betrayal from everyone, or an isolation that no closeness can cross. The lifelong work is to let a bond reach the depth in you without bracing for the next abandonment.
Lean in — Let a bond reach your depth without bracing for betrayal.
Watch for — Expect to be cast off by everyone you let close.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Sedna opposition the Ascendant as the dwarf planet of betrayal, the deep wound, and survival, the one cast into the abyss who endures, working through the self, persona, and how you meet the world.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Sedna as an archetype of the abandoned depths and what survives the unsurvivable; here the Ascendant is where Sedna opposition brings that oceanic survival into the self, persona, and how you meet the world.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene frames the Ascendant as the first house of self and persona, where Sedna opposition sets the theme of abandonment, the long exile, and the sovereignty drawn from the deep.