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Juno in the sixth house

the asteroid Juno in the sixth house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

Juno is a modern reading, taken up by astrologers in the 1970s after the first asteroid ephemeris and popularised, on Wikipedia's account, by Demetra George's Asteroid Goddesses in 1986. Cafe Astrology reads it as commitment and partnership, listing give and take, fairness and compromise among its associations and describing the effort of balancing power between two people as its ground; the same source calls Juno the master of multi-tasking and holds that it shows in what way and in which area a person is deeply bothered by not being treated with respect and fairness. The sixth house is given by Alan Leo as sickness, servants and work: the service required, those who render it, and what he calls the attachments arising from the expression of the tenth house. In the chapter he gives it he connects the house with the mid-heaven and the second, and assigns to it work, servants and the condition of the physical body; his summary of the twelve places sickness here as well, and names it the house of ceremonial or phenomenal magic. He counts the house cadent and assigns to it the bowels and the solar plexus. For Juno in the sixth house specifically, the sources consulted give nothing: they read Juno by sign and leave the houses alone, and this entry does the same rather than invent a delineation.

The story

A house the tradition reads through daily duty suits the least dramatic of the marriage goddess's titles, the ones attached to upkeep. Wikipedia's page on Hera lists among her epithets Gamelios, presiding over marriage, and notes that a sacrifice to Hera ensured a happy married life; Zygia, the yoke of marriage, an epithet matched by Zeus as Zygius; Teleia, bringing the fulfilment of marriage; and Syzygios, patroness of marriage. Alongside them stand Nymphe, bride, and Nympheuomene, led as a bride, used at Plataea. What the list describes is not a wedding day but an office kept up over time, attended by ordinary observance: a sacrifice made, a yoke acknowledged, a fulfilment asked for again. The Romans read their Juno the same way, with dated festivals rather than single occasions. Set against the sixth house, which the tradition gives to what is done repeatedly and often unwitnessed, the useful note in these epithets is that the tradition treated a bond as something maintained, not something concluded.

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Corpus key point:Juno:house:6.