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Juno in the tenth house

the asteroid Juno in the tenth house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

Alan Leo gives the tenth house as profession, business ability, fame, honour and material reputation, and says that all worldly activities and moral responsibilities are shown by it. He calls it the Mid-Heaven or Upper Meridian and the apex of the horoscope, the portion thrust out most prominently into the busy life of the world, reads it as the public standing or worldly position, and in his summary of the twelve attaches parentage and hereditary tendencies to it as well. He counts it angular, among the houses he says show what must be expressed outwardly, and assigns to it the knees. Juno, whose astrological reading begins in the 1970s and not before, is read by Cafe Astrology as commitment and partnership, with fairness and the balancing of power between two people at its centre, and with the caution that a person is triggered where Juno falls while the same ground can become a place of power. Wikipedia's asteroid page adds that Juno is taken as an indicator of what a person needs for a marriage to feel satisfying. No source consulted for this entry takes the further step of reading Juno in the tenth house: Cafe Astrology's pages cover the twelve signs only, and no other reachable page found here treats the houses, so the pairing is left without a delineation rather than given one that no page supports.

The story

The tenth house is read through standing in the world, and both goddesses behind this asteroid were public figures before they were anything domestic. Wikipedia introduces the Roman Juno as the protector and special counsellor of the state, patron goddess of Rome and of the Roman Empire, called Regina, the Queen, and a member of the Capitoline Triad worshipped on the Capitoline Hill with Jupiter and with Minerva, as well as one of the Dii Consentes. It notes the suggestion that she should perhaps be identified with Hera Basilea, or as the queen of Jupiter Rex, and records that Juno Regina held two temples in Rome. On the Greek side the page on Hera calls her the Olympia, Anassa, the Queen of heaven, and says that her royal quality was preserved by the monuments of Greek art. A marriage read as an office of state, with a throne attached and a hill to be seen from, is the aspect of these goddesses that answers to the house of public position.

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Corpus key point:Juno:house:10.