The Seba library treats Comet in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Moore, Thomas, Jung, Carl Gustav, Onians, R B).
Comet: soul as, 53, 210 n. 12
Moore’s index entry identifies the comet explicitly as a symbol for the soul in Ficino’s astrological psychology, constituting the most direct thesis-level claim in the corpus.
, The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino, 1990thesis
Comet: soul as, 53, 210 n. 12
The 1982 edition of Moore’s index likewise records the comet as a figure for the soul in Ficino, confirming the identification across both editions of the text.
, The Planets Within: The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino, 1982thesis
The star or comet plainly belongs to the birth-scene; Nokomis, too, comes to earth as a falling star.
Jung reads the comet as a recurring mythological marker of miraculous divine birth, linking it cross-culturally to figures including the Buddha’s mother’s dream and the Ojibwe figure Nokomis.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952thesis
the ‘star with hair’ (stella crinita, cometes), which appeared during the games celebrated soon after the death of Julius, was the soul of the latter thus shown to be inter deorum immortalium numina receptam.
Onians documents the Roman belief that the comet appearing after Caesar’s death was his divine soul — the genius made visible — received among the immortal gods.
, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988supporting
as a star or comet, 163-5; and the nimbus, 165-7
Onians’ index clusters the comet with the nimbus and the genius, establishing it as one of the principal visual manifestations of the immortal soul-force in Greco-Roman thought.
, The origins of European thought about the body, the mind,, 1988supporting
Astrologer Mark Bailey from the University of Manchester believes that Chiron is the mother of all short-period comets. In other words, Chiron was once whole, and all other short-lived comets broke off from it.
Cunningham invokes the astronomical theory that Chiron is the progenitor of all short-period comets to support her psychological reading of Chiron as a whole-making, wound-bearing archetype.
, An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness, 1982supporting
a colossal celestial force, a mega comet 100 meters wide, shattered into millions of fragments approximately 20,000 years ago
This passage, anomalously inserted into the Harding corpus, treats the comet as a literal catastrophist event, without depth-psychological or symbolic elaboration.
, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955aside