Powerful healing and transformation. Becoming a totally different you – your wounds leading to creation of beautiful gifts for yourself and others.
Goddess Sedna, Inuit Goddess from the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Greenland.
Her native name is Nuliayuk or Taluliyuk, and she is known as the Mother of the Sea. Healing and transformation (a complete change into a more beautiful spiritual state)..
Goddess Sedna’s story is one of tragedy, and betrayal that leads to the creation of new life. Sedna lives with her dog at the bottom of the sea where she fell as a young woman after her father removed all of her fingers in order to save himself as she struggled to hang on to his boat for her life, as she sank into the depths of the Sea, all animals of the Ocean were born from her wounds.
Sedna’s Story
Sedna was a beautiful woman who was not fond of marriage. However, she had many interested suitors, and her father was very interested in a particular man who was rich. This man promised he would provide her a beautiful life on his island far away. It turned out he lied, and he was an evil bird-spirit, and Sedna’s living conditions were terrible. He was abusive to her and kept her hostage, making her unable to return to her family. When her father became aware of what was happening, he went to save her in his small boat to bring her back home. As they attempted her escape, her husband came after them in the form of a bird and flapped his large wings, resulting in waves that shook the boat, scaring both father and daughter. And when Sedna refused to return to him, her father, terrified by the storm, quickly pushed her off of the boat, as Sedna hung on, clutching the side of the boat in the darkness, cold and salty sea, Her loyal dog lunged into the water after her and her father took his knife, and cut off her fingers. Right when he did so, and Sedna fell away from the boat and sank into the icy waters, the sea became calm. As Sedna sank to the bottom of the Ocean, the blood trail began to become sea animals, fish, seals, and walruses, even Sedna herself became a mermaid. She resides in the depths of the Sea with her dog, and some say, with her father also.
Life, beauty and sustenance poured out from her wounds in the form of all of the sea animals. She became a Goddess and a mermaid, a creatrix.
The Inuit rely on Sedna for all of their needs, and when things are difficult, they ask for help from the Angakok (a shaman in Inuit society) who will enter into a trance to go to the bottom of the Sea and meet with Sedna herself. The Angakok will brush Sedna’s hair, braiding it with tender loving care to soothe her anger, which comes from the pain she still has in her heart, and she allows for peace in the community, and for her aimals to be available for the hunters in order to provide for all.
Sedna is a reminder to us that we have the ability to heal from terribly traumatic occurrences, and sorrows, and all the wounded places that have been left unattended, so we can move into a new life, not only healing ourselves, but making beautiful life which is a benefit to others too as our experiences, help us become who we are supposed to be, emerging fully empowered, not only for our own benefit, but for those around us, reaching out far and wide as a beacon of love. Sedna brings hope for what will come during the darkest of times, and she is a reminder that even when it seems that all is lost, we can still heal, and we can rise up to create new life from all of the torn, and wounded places. She also reminds us it is normal to be angry, and encourages all to find ways in which we can help soothe ourselves back into a calm state.
Call on Sedna for help to navigate through rough waters, she is there for you when you are facing challenging and tough times, find yourself in despair, in emergencies, and for healing from both emotional wounding and loss.
Honor Sedna by taking care of water, especially the Sea. Wherever you may be, stay mindful of what you throw away in the water system to help prevent and eliminate pollution. For meat eaters, honor animal Spirits by eating, and hopefully utilizing every part of the animal, and give thanks to the animals, and the land and water.
“On November 14, 2003, a team of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology discovered a dwarf planet on the outer reaches of our solar system. She was given the name Sedna in honor of the Inuit goddess. Her story spread throughout the world.”