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Juno in Leo

the asteroid Juno in tropical Leo

What the tradition reads

Juno is a modern addition to the astrologer's list, its use beginning with Eleanor Bach's asteroid ephemeris of 1973, and the delineation below is that recent practice rather than classical doctrine. Cafe Astrology reads Juno's sign as the field where a person wants to do well and wants the scales level, where unequal treatment is felt more sharply than elsewhere, and where insecurity can show as manoeuvring. In Leo, the site's delineation reads a native who can be utterly offended at being treated as petty, calculating, stingy, unworthy or ungenerous, and who would rather be met with respect and courtesy than with anything else. The same source describes a wish to give off the air of success and of standing above pettiness, and a frustration that arrives when others expect or think less. Placed against Juno's wider associations of commitment, fairness and give and take, the reading holds that what such a person needs inside a bond is to be credited generously, and that the reverse, being taken for small, is where the placement is said to smart. The claim belongs to the tradition; it describes a pattern, never a person.

The story

Juno's Roman name was Regina, the Queen. Wikipedia records that as patron goddess of Rome and of the Roman Empire she carried that title and belonged to the Capitoline Triad as Juno Capitolina, worshipped on the Capitoline Hill together with Jupiter and with Minerva, goddess of wisdom. Her own festival as Juno Regina fell on September 1, followed on the thirteenth of the same month by that of Juno Regina Capitolina, while the page calls Regina the epithet most fraught with questions, scholars being divided over whether she bore it at Rome from the most ancient times as the consort of Jupiter in that triad. The Greek Hera carries the same office: queen among the twelve Olympians, presented in art as a dignified, matronly figure, upright or enthroned, crowned with a polos or a diadem, sometimes veiled as a married woman. The peacock is sacred to her and to Juno alike, and Wikipedia notes that Ovid's Metamorphoses offers a story accounting for that association. A sign the tradition reads through dignity, display and the wish to be honoured finds its likeness in a goddess whose marriage was never private: a throne at the centre of a city, and a bird that cannot be looked past.

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Corpus key point:Juno:sign:Leo.