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Juno in the eighth house

the asteroid Juno in the eighth house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

The eighth house is given by Alan Leo as death and all matters pertaining to legacies or otherwise connected with death, and he calls it an occult house on account of its relation to the fourth, which he charges with the psychic tendencies. The chapter he devotes to it sets the house in a watery triangle with the fourth and the twelfth, lists the goods of the dead, legacies, executorships and occupations connected with death among its affairs, and relates it to some forms of mediumship; his summary of the twelve adds dissolution and, with it, regeneration, the raising of a faculty to what he calls a higher octave. Juno, read only since the modern revival of the asteroids in the 1970s, is given by Cafe Astrology as commitment and partnership, with betrayal and infidelity among its associations, a place where a person is triggered and which the same source also calls a place of potential power and empowerment; it adds that Juno carries what it describes as shades of Pluto. That much is sourced. The delineation of Juno in the eighth house is not: no page consulted for this entry, Cafe Astrology's Juno set included, reads the asteroid through the houses at all. The entry therefore records the general reading of the point and the general field of the house, and states plainly that no separate reading for the pairing was found.

The story

The eighth house is read through what ends and what carries over, and Juno's name has been tied since antiquity to renewal. Wikipedia reports that ancient etymologies associated the name with iuvare, to aid or benefit, and with iuvenescere, to rejuvenate, sometimes connecting it to the renewal of the new and waxing moon and so implying a moon goddess, and that the root behind iuvenis refers to vital energy, the iuvenis being the one who holds the fullness of that force. Her connection with vital force and with eternal youthfulness is described on the same page as now generally acknowledged. The Greek material keeps a matching emblem: Hera is sometimes shown holding a pomegranate as an emblem of immortality, and she is credited with the miraculous restoration of her own virginity. A marriage goddess whose name was heard as rejuvenation, and who holds the fruit of the dead as a token of continuing life, is old company for a house the tradition reads through ending and regeneration together.

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Corpus key point:Juno:house:8.