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Juno in the eleventh house

the asteroid Juno in the eleventh house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

Juno is read in modern practice as the point of partnership and of what a person needs from a committed bond. Cafe Astrology gives its associations as commitment, marriage, betrayal, give and take in partnerships, infidelity, fairness and compromise, and describes it as enraged by inequalities; it also directs the reader to Vesta for devotion to a person or a cause and to Juno for how the most is made of a connection. The practice itself is recent, beginning with the first asteroid ephemeris in 1973. The eleventh house is described by Alan Leo as the house of friends, acquaintances, hopes, wishes and aspirations. In the chapter he gives it he sets the house in a triangle with the seventh and the third, where its relation to the seventh shows the open friends and its relation to the third the private ones, calls it, taken alone and free from affliction, a benefic house inclined toward good fortune and happiness, and notes its sympathy with the tenth in the charts of those concerned with the many rather than the few, through companies, associations and societies. He assigns to it the legs and ankles. For Juno in the eleventh house no reading was found. The sources consulted delineate Juno by sign and say nothing of the houses, and this entry leaves the position unread rather than filling it.

The story

A house the tradition reads through company suits a goddess who was never worshipped alone. Wikipedia lists Juno as a member of the Capitoline Triad and of the Dii Consentes, and describes her Capitoline cult as shared with Jupiter and with Minerva, goddess of wisdom, on one hill. A note on the same page reports M. Renard's remark on the annual procession that carried her image, represented as a goose, from the temple of Juno Moneta on the Arx to the Capitoline temple in a litter, where it was stopped and placed between the cella of Jupiter and that of Minerva, with the small shrine of Iuventas standing in the porch before Minerva's statue. Whatever the ritual meant, its shape was a goddess of marriage brought into the company of others and set down among them. In Latium she is attested in town after town under differing titles, which is the same fact at a larger scale: a deity held in common by people who were not related to one another.

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Corpus key point:Juno:house:11.