Unlocking the Mysteries of Sedna
A New Planet Discovered; An Ancient Myth Revived
This article appeared in the spring 2005 issue of Venture Inward magazine and is restored to publication after a long absence — just as Sedna is now poised to enter its first new sign, Gemini, in nearly 60 years. — MH
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Twenty-first century astronomy sits on the brink of a Renaissance of discoveries in our outer solar system. As new objects are found — such as the tiny, unimaginably faraway planet Sedna in late 2003 — the more thoughtful among astrologers face new questions. Chief among them: Should the astrological canon expand to accommodate new discoveries?
The ancients made no division between astronomy and astrology. In their studies of the sky, cultures encompassing the Egyptian, Persian, Vedic, Hellenic, Chinese, and Mayan found correspondences between the positions of celestial bodies and events on Earth, from the shifting of the tides to the cycles of the human body. The great cultures went further, extending their understanding to correspondences between outer phenomena and the makeup of the human psyche: each civilization, in its own fashion, located the cosmic traits of their gods — and the antecedents of human nature — amid the Milky Way.
