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Juno in Virgo

the asteroid Juno in tropical Virgo

What the tradition reads

The reading of Juno belongs to the modern period and not to the older tradition, which knew no such body before 1804; astrologers took it up in the 1970s, and that is the practice reported here. Cafe Astrology reads the sign Juno occupies as the place where a person wants to do well and wants matters balanced, and where unfairness in that one area is felt out of all proportion. In Virgo, the site's delineation reads a native greatly bothered by any assumption that they are not doing their fair share, since, in the source's account, they habitually do more than is asked. It calls such natives masters of multi-tasking, a phrase the same site applies to Juno herself, and names the particular irritants precisely: having their work, their job, their intelligence or their attention to detail minimised. Shaking off criticism is described as immensely difficult here. Read against Juno's general themes of fair exchange and give and take, the placement is given as one where a bond is weighed by whether effort is noticed and counted, which the tradition offers as a pattern rather than as a measure of anyone's conduct.

The story

Among Juno's less familiar Roman epithets are several tied to washing and to increase. Wikipedia lists Caprotina, Tutula, Fluonia or Fluviona and Februalis, the last of these associated with the rites of purification and fertility of February. What stands out in the record is less any single title than the density of the calendar kept for her. The first of her festivals was that of Juno Lucina, the Matronalia, on March 1, the day of her temple's dedication, when lambs and cattle were sacrificed in the grove on the Cispius. The second was devoted to Juno Moneta on June 1. After it came the Nonae Caprotinae, the Nones of the Wild Fig, on July 7. The festival of Juno Regina fell on September 1, followed on the thirteenth by that of Juno Regina Capitolina, and October 1 was the date of the Tigillum Sororium. A goddess of marriage attended by that many fixed dates is a goddess maintained rather than merely admired, which is the note a sign the tradition reads through service, method and the doing of small necessary things sounds on its own account.

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