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Juno in the fifth house

the asteroid Juno in the fifth house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

The fifth house is set out by Alan Leo as children, enterprise and speculations, gains and love affairs: offspring, the pleasurable emotions arising from the senses, and worldly enterprise and energy. In the chapter he gives it he reads the house as pleasure, society and social inclination, as the emotions and feelings, as courtships and the affections that spring from the feeling side of the nature, and as a material representation of the eleventh house, whose hopes and wishes the fifth often carries to worldly fulfilment. He assigns to it the heart and back. Juno is read, in a practice no older than the asteroid ephemerides of the 1970s, as the point of partnership: Cafe Astrology gives commitment, marriage, betrayal, give and take, infidelity, fairness and compromise as its associations, and holds that a person is triggered where Juno falls while the same place can become a source of power. Wikipedia adds that Juno is taken as an indicator of what a person requires to feel satisfied in love. What no consulted source provides is a delineation of Juno in the fifth house. Cafe Astrology's Juno pages cover the twelve signs only, and no other reachable page found for this entry treats the houses, so the pairing is left unread here rather than supplied from imagination.

The story

The fifth house is the house of children, and children are where Juno's sources are most specific. Wikipedia names her the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Lucina and Juventas, and lists as the children of Hera, her Greek counterpart, Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, Eileithyia, the Charites and others. Juventas, Youth, keeps a curious place in the record: she is named as one of two deities who refused to leave the Capitol when the building of the new temple of Capitoline Jove required the exauguration of the gods already on the site, and a note on the same page places her small shrine inside the Capitoline temple itself. Hera, for her part, is called the goddess of marriage, women and family, and Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth at Argos and Athens, is her daughter in the Theogony. A point that modern astrologers read through commitment stands, in these older pages, beside a goddess whose household was crowded, and whose youngest members could not be moved off a hill.

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