⚵Juno

Traditional signification

Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of marriage. Associated with committed partnership, agreements, and the terms of union.

Find Juno in your chart

The asteroid calculator computes Juno and the other three main asteroids from your birth data using the Swiss Ephemeris (body number 19).

Questions

What does Juno mean in astrology?

Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of marriage. Associated with committed partnership, agreements, and the terms of union. The topics conventionally assigned to it: partnership, commitment, contracts.

How is Juno's position calculated?

From the Swiss Ephemeris asteroid files, body number 19. That is a real astronomical ephemeris, so the position itself is as precise as any planet's - the uncertainty in an asteroid reading is entirely in the interpretation, not in the number.

When was Juno discovered?

1804, by Karl Harding. That is the reason Juno appears in no classical text: the whole classical corpus was written before any of the main-belt bodies were known. It is minor planet 3, found in the six-year burst between 1801 and 1807 that turned a suspected single planet into a belt.

Is Juno part of traditional astrology?

No. With an 1804 discovery it postdates the entire classical corpus, and its astrological use dates to the late 20th century, mainly through Demetra George's work on the asteroid goddesses. Practically, that means two things: the partnership attribution has a far shorter track record than any planetary rulership, and most sources tighten the orb well below planetary values - often 1 to 2 degrees - so that a contested body cannot add aspects to a chart at a wide orb.