The Seba library treats Dot in 3 passages, across 3 authors (including Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph D, Sasportas, Howard, Donna Cunningham).
The little black dit, or dot, is often thought of as the beginning of life… the beginning of the world and of its inhabitants is often made from the dit, from one grain, one single tiny dark dot of something.
Estés reads the dot as the universal cosmogonic seed — the minimum of matter from which life and the Life/Death/Life cycle originate — linking it directly to depleted psychic libido awaiting reconfiguration.
, Women Who Run With the Wolves Myths and Stories of the Wild, 2017thesis
The symbol for the Sun is a circle with a dot in the middle. The circle… stands for unboundedness and infinity, and the dot represents the individual as a separate entity — who has his or her own personal identity and yet is part of that greater whole.
Sasportas interprets the dot within the Sun glyph as the ego-point of individual selfhood held within — but not subsumed by — the infinite totality signified by the surrounding circle.
, The Twelve Houses: An Introduction to the Houses in Astrological Interpretation, 1985thesis
In occult symbolism, the circle represents totality, infinity, eternity, and all there is. The dot in the middle of the Sun symbo
Cunningham situates the dot within a long esoteric tradition in which the central point of the solar symbol condenses the individual into the heart of infinite totality.
, An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness, 1982supporting