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Juno in Sagittarius

the asteroid Juno in tropical Sagittarius

What the tradition reads

The astrological use of Juno is modern, beginning in the 1970s with the first asteroid ephemeris, and this delineation is reported as recent practice rather than as old authority. Cafe Astrology reads the sign Juno occupies as the area where a person wants to excel and wants the scales level, and where unequal treatment is felt more sharply than it would be anywhere else in the chart. In Sagittarius, the site's delineation reads a native most bothered by being fenced in, and by having their opinions left unacknowledged, since respect for ideas and for beliefs is what is demanded here. It notes that such natives can become especially, and in the source's own words perhaps unduly, upset when not allowed their say, and that the partner sought is one who respects opinions and gives the floor for them to be expressed freely. Read against Juno's general associations of commitment, fairness and give and take, this is given as a placement where a bond is weighed by whether it leaves room for what a person thinks, a claim the tradition makes about a pattern and not about any particular conversation.

The story

Juno travelled further than Latium, and the sources show her arriving under other names. Wikipedia reports that the Carthaginian goddess Tanit was evoked at the defeat of Carthage in 146 BC and romanized as Juno Caelestis, Heavenly Juno, one of whose symbols was the crescent moon; she received no temple at Rome, her image being deposited presumably in another temple of Juno and later transferred elsewhere. Augustine of Hippo had already stated that Juno was named Astarte in the Punic language, a claim the same page says the discovery of the Pyrgi lamellae proved correct. At Pyrgi, one of the ports of Caere, excavations since 1956 revealed a sacred area yielding two documents of a cult of Uni, the Etruscan goddess long believed by scholars to have been strongly influenced by the Argive Heras and to have had her Punic counterpart in Tanit. A goddess who crosses languages and borders and is recognised on the far side of them suits a sign the tradition reads through foreign countries, law and belief carried a long way from home.

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