Luna (goddess) as Juno Covella, Juno of the crescent moon. Both Juno and Diana were invoked as childbirth goddesses with the epithet "Lucina". Luna is often depicted driving a two-yoke chariot called a "biga", drawn by horses or oxen. In Roman art, the charioteer Luna is regularly paired with the Sun driving a four-horse chariot ("quadriga"). Isidore of Seville explains that the "quadriga" represents the sun's course through the four seasons, while the "biga" represents the moon, "because it travels on a twin course with the sun, or because it is visible both by day and by night—for they yoke together one
Celestial marriage was translated as "celestial marriage" by John Clowes in 1782. Two more recent translators have preferred the term "heavenly marriage." In all his authoritative writing, Swedenborg only mentions the term "celestial marriage" twice. Swedenborg defined the celestial marriage or heavenly marriage as the marriage of love with wisdom or of goodness with truth. He wrote, "Truth and good joined together is what is called the celestial marriage, which constitutes heaven itself with a person." Swedenborg does not use "celestial marriage" to refer to the marriage of husband and wife, although he says that the marriage of husband and wife has