Goddess Sedna: Hope, Renewal, Beauty, and Healing

Goddess Sedna is an Inuit goddess of the sea and sea creatures. The story is that Sedna did not want to marry anyone her widowed father suggested. There are many versions of her story, but eventually she is pushed off a kayak by her father into the sea. When she tries to climb back up onto the kayak he cuts off her fingers and then her hands. Underwater her hands and fingers became sea creatures. Her spirit became the Mistress of the Sea taking care of all the sea creatures.

Sedna is considered the protector of the ocean by the Inuit people of the Arctic of Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Russia. To keep Sedna happy they do not pollute the sea and treat sea creatures with honor. Their shaman will journey and transform themselves into fish to swim down and comb Sedna’s hair. This keeps the fisherman having an abundance of fish to catch.

Sedna can be considered a dark goddess living in the watery underworld at the bottom of the ocean. She reminds us that even in trauma and betrayal there can be renewal and healing of ourselves. Sedna’s story gives us hope for beauty and growth even after darkness.

Some ways you can work with the Goddess Sedna are:

*Honor and send blessings of protection to the ocean and sea creatures. You can do this by actually going to the ocean or remotely in ritual if you do not live by the ocean.

*Work with water magic calling on Sedna for her blessings.

*Take a cleansing bath with sea salt. You can ritualize your bath by adding candles, incense, shells, and crystals to your bathing area. Call on Sedna for her energies of renewal, beauty, and healing.

*Work with Sedna ritually or in a journey when you need more hope. You can journey to the bottom of the ocean to connect with her.

*Create a drawing, painting, poem or other piece of writing in honor of Sedna. You can look at other ways Sedna is represented in art, story, and film to get inspired.

*Make an altar to Sedna with images of the ocean, shells, and sea creatures.

*Read the various stories the Inuit people tell of Goddess Sedna.

*Choose a sea creature you feel a connection to, and work with them as an animal spirit guide with Sedna’s blessings.

May Sedna bring you many blessings of hope, renewal, beauty, and healing.