Andy Gehrz’s Astrological Detective Radio Show

I really eenyojd this podcast and last weeks as well. Very thought-provoking indeed.I have Juno sitting in a very prominent position in my chart so I have always been drawn to this archetype, even before I knew her placement in my own inner Pantheon of archetypes. I’m also someone who has had to work very hard in my younger days to understand the roots of jealousy as it became a big karmic drama-script that got re-enacted many times thru my various relationships. One of the things I’ve observed about Juno is that her story , especially the bits about her jealous tirades and struggles for power arise from a culture that was more than a little patriarchal. While no one likes being rejected, lied to , abandoned or otherwise dis-respected in a relationship, her marriage seems to exemplify much of how the patriarchy would like to portray marriage; that a woman is to be hunted until captured and once owned thru the marriage contract, the husband is then free to continue his lusty ways, almost as a sport, while leaving his wife to stew in the imbalance. Some people have asked; Why didn’t she just go out and do likewise? This is an interesting question with a lot of different answers. I’d like to take a bit of a risk here in response to Eric’s invitation to dialog about this and report from my Juno-place how she sees this story and her place in it.Juno is the Queen of Olympus/Heaven, after all. She sees herself as not only representing a Sacred responsibility to her world, but also needing to set the highest standards of what a loving relationship COULD be. She feels a need to both serve and be revered not from an egoic point of view, but as an embodiment of the Sacred Feminine. Not so much as the Sacred Whore, as Aphrodite has that job, not as the Sacred Virgin as Diana has tried to take up that misunderstood role. Not as the Sacred Mother- because Demeter does that task beautifully. The aspect of the Sacred Feminine that Juno most wants to embody is that of the Sacred Partner. The One who is an EQUAL to her mate. One who is respected by him, loved by him, and honoured by him. And the one who wants more than anything to be the kind of partner that perfectly compliments the Other. IF she were given her due, she would become more radiant than we could ever imagine, for when the Feminine is loved and adored, she glows and pours forth unending Love that which we all seek. The trouble is, her partner is not a mature example of the Sacred Masculine, even though he is supposedly King of the gods. Imagine how different our relationships would be, our societies, our cultures if this myth were written with a different sort of character in this pivotal role. How different would our programming be if this Archetype (in us) was a model of the ideal, mature Male, devoted to his partner and honouring his agreements and responsibilities and being lusty and loving with her alone thereby keeping the Trust building between the pair rather than continuously destroying it as the current model does. To be sure, the stories would not be so juicy, but might we not all be better off if we had something more evolved to emulate and aspire towards? Would not the Sacred container of Marriage take on a whole different meaning in our societies if it represented a partnership between mutually empowered and respected equals? If Juno had the kind of partner who gave her reason to trust, reason to relax and be her deepest Feminine self then She would be more lusty and sexy than anyone would ever have imagined. If she were respected and cherished, then she would be an entirely different energy frequency, wouldn’t she? I see their story as our story. This modeling of the primal partnership, and its dysfunctional imbalance has been the underlying framework of the patriarchy which I am so glad is coming to an end. I am not against wild and lusty behaviour per se. But the marriage agreement is just that, an agreement. A sacred Oath. When that oath/agreement is violated (by either side for any reason), trust is compromised and wounded. The wounded Trust can be recovered if it is understood how the wounding de-powers both partners not just one in spite of who did what to whom. In our previous karmic cycles which were created in a (mostly) patriarchal set of values, the Feminine in us and the women of the world who held that polarity have had to endure such a loss of trust that it has become almost unbearable to be in our bodies to any great extent because of the humiliation, degradation and abuse that has been thrust upon it, and I mean that most literally. Of course, there are all sorts of stages of relationship that lead up to the Marriage agreement. It is my belief that as women, we carry within us that Juno part of us that longs for the kind of partnership that we know is possible. She-in-us, who knows how to give Love unending to her Beloved has been waiting such a long time for her EQUAL Sovereign to show up to enact the mysteries of the Sacred Union, here and now. She-in-us wants to cast off these false stories of who we think She is, and to take up that which She truly is; the Queen of Heaven and bring Heaven to Earth. I know that some will think that this is an overly romantic notion especially given our dysfunctional society and dire planetary situation but one thing that Juno-in-me also has is an uncompromising faith in what she knows in her heart to be possible in Sacred partnership, and for the return of the Sacred Feminine to this world and she will hold out for that for as long as she has to, and she will put up with the false stories and costumes (for now) because She KNOWS . she KNOWS that if this split could ever be healed, it will be SO worth all the suffering that has come down thru the ages. The Juno in all of us is holding fast to her highest ideals and that is why we keep trying to make relationships work.