Aspects
Descendant Opposition Sedna
The abandonment you carry keeps surfacing in your closest bonds. With Sedna opposite your Descendant, anchored on the self end of the relationship axis, the theme of betrayal is centered in you yet keeps playing out through partnership, so the old hurt comes alive in relationship, a depth in you that a bond either reaches or recoils from, a fear of being cast off that colors how you love. You may be the one who expects to be left, or who keeps the depths in you just out of a partner's reach. The gift is a self that brings oceanic depth to love. The shadow is an isolation that no bond can cross, or provoking the abandonment you fear. The lifelong work is to bring your depths to a bond without guarding them against being left.
Lean in — Bring your depths to a bond, unguarded.
Watch for — Keep your depths out of a partner's reach for fear of leaving.
- sedna
- descendant
- opposition
- abandonment
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Sedna opposition the Descendant as the dwarf planet of betrayal, the deep wound, and survival, the one cast into the abyss who endures, working through partnership and the close other.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Sedna as an archetype of the abandoned depths and what survives the unsurvivable; here the Descendant is where Sedna opposition brings that oceanic survival into partnership and the close other.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene frames the Descendant as the seventh house of relationship and the close other, where Sedna opposition sets the theme of abandonment, the long exile, and the sovereignty drawn from the deep.