Aspects
Descendant Square Sedna
Fraught love keeps catching on your closest bonds. With Sedna square your Descendant, the theme of betrayal and the demands of partnership grate against each other, so the old abandonment tends to turn relationships fraught: a reflex to expect betrayal, a withdrawal that leaves a partner shut out, or a pattern of drawing those who cast you off. You might keep a bond at arm's length to forestall being left, then feel the isolation you feared. The friction is purposeful: it pushes you to risk the depths with someone without bracing for abandonment. The lifelong task is to meet the discomfort as a doorway, learning to let a partner reach what was cast off in you rather than guarding it behind a wall.
Lean in — Let a partner reach what was cast off in you.
Watch for — Keep a bond at arm's length to forestall being left.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Sedna square 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 square 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 square sets the theme of abandonment, the long exile, and the sovereignty drawn from the deep.