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Juno in the ninth house

the asteroid Juno in the ninth house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

Juno's astrological use is modern, dating from Eleanor Bach's asteroid ephemeris of 1973 and the recognition of the first four asteroids by astrologers in the 1970s, and the corpus states this rather than lending the reading a borrowed age. Cafe Astrology reads Juno as commitment and partnership, listing fairness, compromise and give and take among its themes, and holds that Juno shows where a person seeks to make matters balanced, fair and right. The ninth house is described by Alan Leo as the house of philosophy and travel: the higher mentality, the scientific, philosophic and religious tendencies, long journeys, dreams and what he calls the image making power. In the chapter he gives it he sets the ninth against the third as the subjective and abstract mind against the concrete brain mind, the house of reason and intuition against the house of perception and learning, adds rapid transit, sea voyages and foreign travel, and allows it some connection with legal matters on the ground that Jupiter governs it in the natural order of the signs. The two accounts are not joined anywhere the sources reach. Nothing consulted for this entry delineates Juno in the ninth house; Cafe Astrology's Juno material stops at the signs, and no other reachable page supplies the position, so none is invented here.

The story

A house the tradition reads through foreign parts fits a goddess who was once carried into Rome from another city. Wikipedia records that Juno Regina came to Rome from Veii by the rite the page names evocatio, and that the temple dedicated by Furius Camillus in 392 BC on the Aventine lodged the wooden statue of the Juno transvected from Veii, citing Livy's fifth book and Plutarch's life of Camillus. The page notes the scholarly disagreement that followed: some hold her an ancient Roman goddess, others a new acquisition introduced after the evocatio, and it is debated whether the epithet Regina itself came from Veii. The cult of Juno and Hera is described as generally attested in Etruria, at Veii, Falerii, Tarquinia and Pyrgi among other places. A goddess of marriage who arrives as a foreigner, and whose title may be a loan word from a conquered town, suits the house of far places and of law.

Written from

Corpus key point:Juno:house:9.