Vesta and Juno cycle - 2025 to 2047
- Fran Arnet
- Jun 23
- 8 min read
Updated: Sep 20
Yes, you read that right – Vesta and Juno do have an astonishingly long cycle together. It happens because their orbital periods are similar and because their orbits allow “intersecting”/crossing and therefore they create “shared space” which means, they can’t meet as they would otherwise collide.
The Players:
Juno is about one to one relationships (including the one with self), what we value and look for in our relationships, which includes the “teacher – student” relationship and that one can be both the same time. Juno is also about equality and acceptance and inner “balance”/ harmony. She’s a “transmitter”/bridge between our outwards actions and our beliefs, higher ideals etc.
Imbalanced Juno can bring jalousie and according to mythology a constant “war” at courts.
Interesting to note is also, that her orbit leads her to the star Meissa of Orion, marking its head – so, there’s this direct relationship to the brain and the mind.
Vesta is our inner, sacred flame – so it’s our devotion but she’s also about “endurance” – how much are we going to “endure” (also in the sense of “time” and “other tasks” to support etc.) in order to keep our flame burning, to find our “purpose”, inner knowing (also knowledge in general) and actually act on it. She’s also Saturn’s daughter and as such they share the theme “commitment” ….
The first “Vestal cults” (Roman name – Hestia Greek) came to western Europe after the Trojan war by refugees who were, according to mythology, guided by Venus…
In Greek and Roman mythology, they’re actually Sisters – with Saturn/Kronos and Ops/Rea as their parents. Vesta was first born, but released last from the “belly of Saturn” who has swallowed his children except his youngest son Jupiter/Zeus.
We could interpret these lines in the way, that the “masculine / outwards” energy did take over and that it’s difficult to reestablish “feminine” energy, especially to “reignite” spiritual energy or simply to follow a “calling” or a “passion” (it’s not meant in a romantic way) …
Yet, said this – because we’re used to live more in the “outside world”, we may have the tendency to think first about our relationships in our “waking time” and less about the one in our private, inner world. Sometimes I think of relationships also in the sense of “ratios” – as for example how much time we give to “what or whom”, how do “topics, themes and stuff relate” etc. – giggles – astrological aspects are describing relationships.
Vesta and Juno orbital relationship
As you can see in the orbit picture, Juno’s orbit is more “oval” shaped than that of Vesta and there’s also a difference in inclination (angle in respect to the ecliptic).
Juno’s orbit brings her a rounded up 13° north and south of the ecliptic, whereas Vesta goes only a good 7° north and south of the ecliptic (just a little more than Mercury).
In this illustration, you can see, that Juno “cuts” through the orbit of Vesta and comes very close to Mars’ orbit. Now, as they do not want to collide into each other, they perform an interesting “dance” …
Juno got her Aphelion (farthest away from the Sun or closest to Jupiter) at around 2° sidereal Scorpio, while Vesta got her Aphelion at around 20° sidereal Taurus, so on the opposite side of the heavens.
Because of this, it’s obviously “safe” for them to meet on longitude somewhere within Scorpio, as they’re physically far away of each other but for us in “line of sight”.
Conjunction history
Juno and Vesta met 3 times in the earlier 1960’s in sidereal Leo – it meant, that Juno had crossed into Vesta’s orbit. They met “normal line up”, then had a “reverse conjunction” and consequently met again in “normal” line up when Juno had crossed “out” of the orbit again… so, they did mark that “shared space” …
After that, they met again in 1981 and in 2003 – both times in sidereal Scorpio – yet, their conjunctions move in “precession direction” towards sidereal Libra.
Same is true for our now conjunction and the one that will follow in 2047.
During all these years, the “crossing of orbits” does take place during each orbit, yet, they’ll not standing in “conjunction relationship” but within different angles …
We’re living in a spiral galaxy, which means, that a lot we perceive as “lines” or “circles” are actually spirals, Spirals can also be associated with “waves” and mythologically with snakes. It’s no wonder, that our DNA is structured in such a “spiral” way too.
Most obvious, there are 2 lines or strands that are “intertwined” (there might be many more though) in our DNA and they follow “opposite directions”. We have clockwise and counterclockwise movements in this sense just as we have in the sky – the planets seem to move from west to east, while we see them rising in the east, precessions of the equinoxes and planetary nodes seem to move from east to west, and some planetary cycles move west to east and others east to west while that at times “changes” direction.
