Juno
Jupiter/Zeus wife with her very own
"Olympian powers"
Juno is all about relationships - all kind of relationships - Family, Friends, business, work, politics and so on. She's about divining what we seek in the different relationships, what we value in them. She's about the "law" of harmony as well as equality, fairness and acceptance.
She wants to show us, that we have to love and value ourselves first in order to attract relationships that are harmonious and "equal". Juno teaches us mutual respect, support and unconditional compassion also within ourselves.....
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As an Asteroid, Juno connects the inner realms of Mars with the societal realms of Jupiter...
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Greek Mythology: Juno (Roman) - Hera in Greek - Both the "Goddess of state-affairs". Hera is the daughter of Cronos and Rhea and married to her Brother Zeus and therefore the Queen of the Olymp. She became most famous because of her jealousy - Zeus did have countless affairs and children with other Goddesses and Humans.
Roman Mythology: Juno is married to Jupiter. In the Roman story, she tries to get equality by legalization of her marriage.
Some Astronomy: Juno is one of the larger asteroids. Juno has only 3% the mass of Ceres. The orbital period of Juno is 4.36578 years. Juno orbits at a slightly closer mean distance to the Sun than Ceres or Pallas. Its orbit is moderately inclined at around 12° to the ecliptic, but has an extreme eccentricity, greater than that of Pluto. This high eccentricity brings Juno closer to the Sun at perihelion than Vesta and further out at aphelion than Ceres. Juno reaches opposition from the Sun every 15.5 months or so, with its minimum distance varying greatly depending on whether it is near perihelion or aphelion. Sequences of favorable oppositions occur every 10th opposition, i.e. just over every 13 years. (Ref. Wikipedia)
By Tomruen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64174927
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Juno's "cross" - orbital points
(heliocentric 2025)
Southnode: 24°48'26" sidereal Aquarius
Northnode: 24°50'21" sidereal Leo
most southern and northern areas at around 12°55' latitude square to the nodes in sidereal Taurus and Scorpio.
Aphelion: 2°25' sidereal Scorpio
Perihelion: 2°25' sidereal Taurus
Her orbit brings her South through Orion, where she traverses a little north of the star Bellatrix (there's also her most southern region) to then align almost exact in astrological terms with the star Meissa, who marks the head of Orion.
This region gives "speech" abilities or to see the correlation between speech and manifestation. Thought can be vibrationally be taken as the way of "inner speech".
On the other side, she got her most northern point in the constellation Ophiuchus, from where she descends through the Serpent's tail, south of the star Leiolepis.
This region at the "serpent bearer" and the serpent itself, gives emphasis to self-mastery, the love of self, the inner flow of energies and in this sense the "serpent energy" often called Kundalini.
Her northnode in Leo is close to the star Shishimai of Leo, whereas her southnode is in an area without any major, outlining star under the circlet of the fish.
Shishimai gives emphasis to "creativity", here things can't be stopped and an outlet will be found.
Between the Aquarian urn and the Piscean circle is a region along the ecliptic kind of seemingly "empty", which can be interpreted as being "everything" when one dives deep into oneself - still and calm.
Her "cross" is in the similar longitudes as that of Pallas. There are also similarities with the cross of Ceres, Makemake and Venus who all got their northnodes in later Taurus, meaning they're in "square alignments" (nodal axis of the Three aligns with the most southern and northern points of Juno).
Juno Discovery
Juno was discovered on 1st of September 1804 by the German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding from a private observatory in Lilienthal near Bremen, Germany.
Geocentric location ca. 10 degrees 4 minutes sidereal Pisces during a retrograde periode (an optical illusion due to observation from Earth), while the heliocentric discovery location was at ca. 29 degrees 47 minutes sidereal Aquarius.
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At that time her heliocentric nodal axis was at around 29 degrees Leo (NN) - Aquarius (SN). Therefore her most northern part of orbit in that time, in late Taurus / Orion and her most northern point in late Scorpio / Ophiuchus.
Her Aphelion - Perihelion axis at 40 minutes Scorpio - Taurus respectively...
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On the 1st of September 1804, she stood heliocentric just a few degrees from Sedna in Aquarius and in a square with Makemake at the Galactic Center.
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​​​​​Her discovery right on the cusp between sidereal Aquarius and Pisces, under the "circlet" is very telling - it's in heliocentric perspective a very seen and public area, yet, one that transitions from a socially active to a quieter area.
Her close approximaty with Sedna on the aquarian side and Venus on the piscean side are talking about the more "feminine" sides, the values and "properties" (also vices, talents etc.) as well as the ability to form an own "kingdom", despite or maybe because of all that one has been enduring.
Her first square from Chiron at the Galactic Center are talking about a "healing journey" - that might be by "creating" and valuing what one got in the own right.
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Her journey is though a challenging one - it's not easy to stand with oneself in company.