Juno's themes are femininity, love, relationships, romance, kinship, time, protection (women and children) and direction. Goddess Juno symbols are the cypress, peacocks, cuckoos, luxury clothing, figs along with the moon (or silver things). The ultimate Goddess of the Roman pantheon, Juno offers a helping hand in every facet of our relationships, particularly the security and happiness of both women and children in those settings. Juno is also a rather contemporary minded Goddess, taking an active part in public life and finances. Beyond that, She principles women's cycles, giving Her relations with the moon. Art depicts Juno constantly wearing majestic clothing befitting the 'Queen of Heaven.'
According to Roman folklore, marrying today guarantees a long, happy relationship. So if you are arranging a wedding or an engagement, or even moving in together, Juno may emphasise that devotion if you time the significant step for now! As part of your devotional ritual, do not forget to wear specific clothes (perhaps something your partner particularly enjoys) to invoke Juno's focus and loving vitality.
If you’d like to connect with Juno’s feminine force, Her leadership skills or Her sense of timing within yourself, eat some fig-filled cookies today (or just some figs), saying,
‘Juno, bring_______to my spirit, my wish fulfill. By your power, through my will.’
FIll the black with whatever aspect of Juno you most need to develop.”
(Patricia Telesco, “365 Goddess: a daily guide to the magic and inspiration of the goddess”.)
Juno Goddess History
Patricia Monaghan tells us that Juno was a very ancient Italian Goddess, [and] was originally quite different from the Greek Hera; both, however, were essentially Goddesses of women. When the Greek sky queen came to Rome during the days of cultural assimilation, She merged with the Roman Goddess and Her legends were told of Juno. Juno’s separate mythology was lost, except for the tale that, impregnated by a flower, Juno bore the god Mars – a story never told of Hera (p. 174).
In accordance with Thalia Took Juno, or to spell it the Latin manner, Iuno, is the Roman Great Goddess, the Queen of the Gods, Sky-Goddess, Protectress of Women, Mother of Mars, Wife of Jupiter, She of the many epithets and a long long history of worship in Rome. She had been among the Capitoline Triad, together with Jupiter and Minerva, Who were considered the three major Deities of Rome; She was widely worshipped among the Latins, and Her cult was also significant one of the Etruscans, who called Her Uni or Cupra. She had been an especial protectress of women in childbirth and marriage, and many of Her epithets relate to that aspect, but She might also have a more civic or defensive personality as protectress of the Roman individuals.
Juno's name could derive from an Indo-European root with connotations of vitality and youth, and if so would imply that Her aspect since Birth-Goddess is one of Her oldest. Instead, Her name may come from the Etruscan Uni, which means 'She Who Gives', and which would refer to Her capacity as a benevolent Goddess of abundance who answers the prayers of those in need.
As each man was considered to have a protective protector spirit called a genius, so every girl had one known as a juno. These guardian spirits (in the plural, junones) may have originally been the ghosts of those ancestors that were thought to watch over and guard their descendents. They were usually represented as snakes (probably relating to the chthonic or underworld facet of the Dead), and so were given offerings on the person's birthday at the family altar.
The first days of each Roman month, the calends, were sacred to Juno, as was the entire month of June, which is still named for Her. Five cities in Latium (the region of the Latin tribe) also named a month for Her: Aricia, on the Via Appia; Lanuvium, where She was worshipped as Juno Sospita (‘Juno the Saviouress’), Praeneste (modern Palestrina), Tibur (modern Tivoli, the resort town of Rome), and Laurentum, located between Lavinium and Ostia on the coast. And as Juno is the Roman Goddess of Marriage, it is no coincidence that June is still considered the proper month for weddings. [1]
One of Her most renowned names was Moneta, 'warner', that was earned many times over: once when Her sacred geese once put up such a squawking that the town had been warned of invading Gauls, another time when an earthquake threatened and Juno's voice from heaven alerted town, and finally when the underfunded Roman generals arrived to Juno's temple to get advice and were advised that any war fought ethically would discover popular (and financial) support. This last campaign made Her matron of the Roman mint, that was situated in Her temple, also turned Her title into a term for 'money'.
Most important, Juno was the Goddess of time. Daughter of Saturn, She was a symbol of the menstrual cycle as time’s indicator; Goddess of the new moon, She was worshiped by Roman women on the Calends, or first of each lunar month. In addition to these monthly celebrations, Juno was honored in two festivals: the unrestrained Nonae Caprotinae on July 7, when serving girls staged mock fights under a wild fig tree; and the more sedate Matronalia on March 1 when married women demanded money from their husbands to offer to the Goddess of womanhood (Monaghan, p. 174).
Like Jupiter, Juno was believed to have the ability to throw thunderbolts.
Also called: Junonis or Iuno.
Goddess Juno Names :
Goddess Juno Names :
Here, then, is the index for as many of Her aspects as I could find, treated individually; they range from simply descriptive titles such as Conciliatrix that may not have had a use in Her cult, to the more important and unusual facets of Her like Curitis, all the way to separate Goddesses who were assimilated to or equated with Juno, such as the Dea Caelestis of Carthage.
Abeona, Adiona, Caelestis, Caprotina, Cinxia, Cioxia (ruler of the first undressing by the husband), Conciliatrix, Conservatrix, Cuba, Cunina, Cupra, Curiatia, Curitis, Comiduca, Dea Caelestis, Dea Statina, Domiduca,Educa, Edulica, Empanada, Februtis, Fluonia, Gamelia, Inferna, Interduca, Juga, Jugalis, Juno of Falerii, Lacinia, Lanuvina, Levana, Lucetia, Lucina, Martialis, Maturna, Matrona, Moneta, Nacio, Natalis, Nundina, Nutrix, Nuxia, Opigena, Ossipaga (who strengthens fetal bones), Panda, Perficia, Pertunda, Perusina, Populonia (Goddess of conception), Potina, Prema, Pronuba (arranger of appropriate matches), Quiritis, Regina, Rumina, Seispita, Sispes, Sororia, Sospita (the labor Goddess), Supra, Uni, Unxia, Vagitanus, Virginalis, Viriplaca (who settles arguments between spouses), Volumna. [2]