Sedna: Goddess of Creation, Crone of the Underworld

Come sit with Chel as we think about how cold and rest and even loss can give way to something else as we think about the life and death of Sedna and her transformation into a Goddess of both life, feeding her people and death, caring for them after they die. Do you feel cold and empty and lost? Have things happened you can’t understand? We will melt small candles in the cauldron as we think of what we must let go of, what we want to let go of, and how the dark and cold of winter and the Dark Moon can transform this into something else.

The Hall opens at 7:00pm. Activities begin around 7:30pm. There is NO “late”, come when you can (but the Hall will probably close around 8:30 or so) More Information on the Dark Moon Group Page

I was at a complete loss for February Dark Moon so I let the Goddess decide. I pulled Sedna from my deck of Goddess cards. I thought I knew Sedna, the Inuit Goddess of the sea whose fingers, removed in fear and anger by her father, became the creatures of the sea that sustain her people. What I didn’t know is that Sedna is also considered the Goddess of the Underworld by many of the indigenous tribes of what you might call “The Great White North” from the NW Coast of the US, all of Canada and even Greenland and points further north.

Not only was I surprised, I was newly interested to meet this young creator of the sea creatures now the crone of the Underworld where souls go for a year before moving on. It’s that time of year. The Crone is giving way to the maiden as life returns. The things taken from us against our will sometimes come back as something better. A period of rest in the depths of cold prepares you for a new period in your soul’s existence.