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Juno in Capricorn

the asteroid Juno in tropical Capricorn

What the tradition reads

Juno has been read by astrologers only since the modern revival of the asteroids in the 1970s, and this delineation is stated as that recent practice. Cafe Astrology reads the sign Juno occupies as the ground where a person wants to do well and wants matters even, and where insecurity can turn into manoeuvring instead of plain dealing. In Capricorn, the site's delineation reads a native most bothered by people who fail to show respect for what they do, for their accomplishments and for what they have achieved, and who has little patience for losing face. The wish given here is to be seen as accomplished and competent, with frustration arriving when others treat the matter otherwise. In partnership, the same source holds that a partner should fully respect the need for order, for boundaries and for accountability, and adds that these natives are very responsible and become especially frustrated when their honour is questioned. Set beside Juno's wider themes of commitment and fair exchange, the placement is read as one where a bond is weighed by whether obligations are kept, which the tradition offers as a pattern rather than as a standard to hold anyone to.

The story

Hera's marriage was housed in stone on a scale few cults matched. Wikipedia reports that she may have been the first deity to whom the Greeks dedicated an enclosed roofed temple sanctuary, at Samos about 800 BCE, later replaced by the Heraion of Samos, one of the largest of all Greek temples; the temple built by the Rhoecus architects was destroyed between 570 and 560 BCE and replaced by the Polycratean temple of 540 to 530 BCE. The importance of Hera in the early Archaic period is said to be attested by these large building projects, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos being among the very earliest monumental Greek temples. On the Greek mainland she was worshipped as Argive Hera at a sanctuary standing between the former Mycenaean cities of Argos and Mycenae. A sign the tradition reads through structure, duty and what lasts finds its counterpart in that record: a goddess of marriage whose worship took the form of foundations, walls and rebuilding after loss.

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Corpus key point:Juno:sign:Capricorn.