The Seba library treats Juno in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Hillman, James, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Cicero, Marcus Tullius).
she is under the patronage of Juno. She goes in with the marriage fantasy of deep coupling. Soon after he gets a message from Hermes that he must get on with his job… she’s absolutely destroyed.
Hillman argues that Juno governs the archetypal marriage fantasy and that its violation — when the partner operates under a different mythic mandate — produces irreparable betrayal and enduring underworld rage.
, Mythic Figures, 2007thesis
Juno appeared to him in a dream and warned him against doing so, and threatened him that if he did she would take care that he should lose the eye with which he could see well.
Von Franz presents Juno as an autonomous dream-deity who enforces sacred boundaries by threatening physical punishment, demonstrating the trans-personal authority of the divine image in the unconscious.
, Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures, 1998thesis
In Hannibal’s second dream of the golden column, Juno threatens Hannibal with the loss of the one eye remaining to him. The unconscious speaks in the dream as a Roman goddess, and he obeys at once.
Von Franz notes that the unconscious addresses a Carthaginian general in the form of a Roman goddess, illustrating the collective and cross-cultural autonomy of the Juno archetype as it appears in dreams.
, Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, and Other Historical Figures, 1998supporting
name belonging to Juno, sister and wife of Jove, because it resembles and is closely connected with the aether… The name of Juno however I believe to be derived from iuvare ‘to help’.
Cicero’s etymological and cosmological account locates Juno’s nature in the connective, helping function associated with the aether, establishing her as a mediating principle within the divine order.
, De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods), -45supporting
Caring for the house, the house begins to care for you… And I think that’s where Hera is, in giving back something to you, for you giving to her body in the house.
Hillman extends the Juno/Hera complex into the phenomenology of domestic care, arguing that the goddess is immanent in the reciprocal relationship between human attention and the lived household.
, Mythic Figures, 2007supporting
one hundred and ten matrons set up religious banquets to Juno and Diana.
Campbell’s description of the Secular Games situates Juno within Roman civic ritual alongside Diana, confirming her role as a presiding goddess of the matron class and public religious order.
, Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume III, 1964aside
Juno, drives mad the daughters of Proetus.
A brief index entry in the Hesiodic corpus records Juno’s punitive madness-inflicting power, corroborating her role as an avenging and boundary-enforcing divine principle.
, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, -700aside