When we do not receive intimacy, depth, equality, honesty, respect, and fulfill-
ment in our unions, Juno speaks to our emotions of disappointment, despair, anger,
and rage, which can overwhelm us. This is especially true when we have given up a
great deal, such as a career, family, home, or religion, to enter the relationship. The
Juno in us makes us confront the issues of submission and domination, fidelity and
infidelity, trust and deception, and forgiveness and revenge. In her realm, we find our-
selves in power struggles for equality as we attempt to balance and integrate ourselves
with another person and learn to transform selfish desires into cooperative union.Within a context of separation and return, Juno encourages us to take the vow
of “for better or worse, in sickness and health, till death us do part.” She brings the
wisdom that conscious relationship is a path to spiritual enlightenment, and the
knowledge that relationships allow us to perfect and complete ourselves.In today’s world, Juno is also a symbol for the plight of battered and powerless
wives and minorities; for the psychological complexes of love-addiction and codepen-
dency; for the rise in divorce rates as people are driven to release unmeaningful rela-
tionships; and for the redefinition of traditional relationships in the face of feminism
and of gay and lesbian coupling.Juno
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A sixteenth-century woodcut of Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, and Mercury from Greek
mythology. Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library.