Almagest

The library · The other points and bodies

Juno in the third house

the asteroid Juno in the third house of the Western chart

What the tradition reads

Modern astrologers read Juno as the point of partnership and of what a person needs from a bond. Cafe Astrology names commitment, betrayal, give and take, infidelity, fairness and compromise among its associations, adds that Juno counsels, alerts, advises and warns, and holds that its position marks where a person is deeply bothered by not being treated with respect and fairness. Wikipedia dates the astrological use of the asteroids to the 1970s and Eleanor Bach's first ephemeris, which is why nothing older than that exists to cite. The third house is described by Alan Leo as brethren and relatives, short journeys and the mind: relatives and kindred, travelling, the intellect derived from education and study, and the minor impressions made upon the physical brain. In the chapter he devotes to it he says that what is studied there is all that relates to movement, transition and change, and all affairs that seriously affect the mind. He counts the house cadent, the least outwardly expressed of the twelve in his scheme, and assigns to it the neck, arms and shoulders and the lungs. For the pairing itself the record is empty: the sources consulted, Cafe Astrology's Juno pages among them, delineate Juno by sign and not by house, so no separate reading for Juno in the third house is offered here, and none has been invented to fill the gap.

The story

The third house is cadent and concerns what is passed along, which suits a title Juno held in Rome for the raising of an alarm. Wikipedia records the epithet Moneta, derived from monere, to warn, and notes that the sacred geese of the Capitol were lodged in her temple; since Livy records those geese in the episode of the Gallic siege, placed at about 396 to 390 BC, the page reasons that the temple must have stood before the dedication of 348 BC. M. Guarducci is reported as calling her the Warner on account of her presence near the auguraculum, her oracular character and her announcement of perils, and as identifying her with Mnemosyne. The alternative sense of monere, to record, is raised because her temple held the Libri Lintei, the linen books. A goddess of marriage who is also the keeper of the warning cry and of the written record belongs in a house the tradition gives to messages, since both offices come to the same thing: what gets said, and in time, to whom.

Written from

Corpus key point:Juno:house:3.