To sum up, Juno is the archetype of the wife and partner who maintains her
marital commitment to her husband in the face of conflict and struggle. In the birth
chart, she, along with other chart factors such as the seventh house, represents your
capacity for meaningful committed relationships, your attitude toward such relation-
ships, and the type of relationship experiences that you need in order to feel fulfilled.
She represents both what you need and what you attract, and she also signifies the
ways in which you act out your disappointment over broken unions. These relation-
ships are usually romantic in nature, but may sometimes assume other forms such as
business, professional or creative partnerships.
The Asteroid Goddess Natal Report Writer generates a 40-page personalized
interpretation of these four major asteroids in the birth chart. It is available from
Astrolabe.
—Demetra GeorgeSources:
Dobyns, Zipporah. Expanding Astrology’s Universe.San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1983.
Donath, Emma Belle. Asteroids in the Birth Chart.Tempe, AZ: American Federation of
Astrologers, 1979.
George, Demetra, with Douglas Bloch. Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrol-
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JUPITER
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun, is the largest body in the solar system, contain-
ing two-thirds the mass of the entire solar system outside the Sun. It is like a miniature
planetary system all by itself. Since 2000, Jupiter is now known to have 28 moons of
varying sizes. The four largest of them are easily visible with even a small telescope.
Galileo discovered these larger moons in 1610. They are called Galilean satellites.
Copernicus’s model of the heliocentric solar system was supported by the fact that
these bodies were noticed to be orbiting another planet.
Jupiter begins a grouping of planets that have a different composition from the
four terrestrial planets. These are referred to as the Jovian planets because of their
giant sizes. (Jove was the chief Roman deity.) Jupiter’s gassy composition is a combina-
tion of 90 percent hydrogen and 10 percent helium. It has no solid surface at all.
Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours. It orbits the Sun every 11.86 years. Its most distin-
guishing feature is the giant red spot. Observations from the 1979 Voyagermission
identified the red spot as the vortex of a violent, long-lasting anticyclonic storm, simi-
lar to big storms on earth. Superbolts of giant-sized lightning and giant polar aurorae
were also Voyager discoveries about Jupiter.
Early Greek mythology called Jupiter Zeus, and the Romans called him Jove.
Jupiter was the son of Saturn (Kronos.) Just as the Oracle of Delphi predicted to Sat-
urn, Zeus was the son to dethrone him, as he had overpowered his own father, Ouranos.
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