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Juno in the second house

the asteroid Juno in the second house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

The second house is given by Alan Leo as finance and monetary prospects, the outcome of the labour or profession in remuneration and in the monetary condition generally. He sets it in a triad with the tenth house and the sixth, holds that such matters cannot be judged from the second alone though the second must be allowed the final voice among them, credits it besides with considerable sway over the emotional and desire nature, and assigns to it the throat and ears. Juno, in the modern practice that began with the asteroid ephemerides of the 1970s, is read as the point of commitment and partnership: Cafe Astrology lists give and take in partnerships, fairness and compromise among its associations and holds that Juno is enraged by inequalities, while Wikipedia calls it an indicator of what a person requires to feel satisfied in a marriage. Joining those two statements into a delineation is a step the sources do not take. Cafe Astrology sets out Juno in each of the twelve signs and offers nothing for the houses, and no other reachable source consulted here gives a reading for Juno in the second house. What stands, then, is the general reading of the point and the general field of the house, with no separate reading claimed for the pairing.

The story

A house the tradition reads through substance invites a plain account of how much substance Juno actually has. Wikipedia gives its mean diameter as about 254 kilometres, its mass as roughly 2.7 times ten to the nineteenth kilograms, and its orbit as one of about 2.67 astronomical units, completed in 4.36578 years. It is one of the two largest stony asteroids, along with 15 Eunomia, and the second most massive of that stony class. Against the belt as a whole it is estimated to hold one per cent of the total mass, and against the largest asteroid, Ceres, only three per cent. Cafe Astrology counts it among the four major asteroids, found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. None of that was known when the goddess was named, and none of it was the reason astrologers took the name up. The figures are worth setting down anyway in a house concerned with what a thing is worth: on the scale of the solar system, Juno is a small stony body, and whatever the tradition reads in it is read, not weighed.

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