The Seba library treats Eclipse in 8 passages, across 7 authors (including Abraham, Lyndy, Jung, Carl Gustav, Greene, Liz; Sasportas, Howard).
The time of the eclipse is a time of suffering, mourning and ‘melancholy. A profound darkness reigns, as if the light will never return.
Abraham identifies the alchemical eclipse as the emblematic moment of nigredo — a total darkening of Sol and Luna that figures the soul’s desolation before regenerative transformation.
, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, 1998thesis
Eclipse of the sun… This leads to the true eclipse of the sun and one should put a rainbow on either side to suggest the peacock’s tail that then appears in the coagulation.
Jung presents the solar and lunar eclipses as named stages in the alchemical image-sequence, each paired with the iridescent peacock’s tail that heralds the passage from dissolution to coagulation.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944thesis
Nigel really was born under a total solar eclipse, with the Sun and Moon both conjuncting the Moon’s North Node. This is an extremely powerful personality.
Greene reads natal birth under a total solar eclipse — Sun, Moon, and North Node conjunct — as a marker of exceptional psychic intensity and fateful personal character.
, The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, 1992thesis
Eclipse cycles were of the gravest concern to the Chinese calendrical astronomers as well as to the Mayan, since… celestial phenomena which could not be predicted were ominous in the fullest sense of the word: they were omens.
Campbell demonstrates that across Mayan and Chinese civilizations, eclipse prediction was bound to political and cosmic security, transforming unpredictable darkness from omen into intelligible rhythm.
, The Mythic Image, 1974supporting
It will be apparent if this chart is examined that a solar eclipse occurred earlier in the
Greene incorporates the timing of a solar eclipse as a significant astrological datum in the analysis of a death chart, treating it as part of the configuration of unresolved fate.
, The Astrology of Fate, 1984supporting
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): alembic; bath; crocodile; eclipse; fragrance; grave; head; homunculus; king; laton; laundering; medicine; philosopher’s stone
Abraham’s index establishes eclipse as a recognized alchemical image appearing in Shakespeare’s literary corpus alongside core Hermetic symbols, confirming its currency across early modern alchemical and literary registers.
, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, 1998supporting
This line can also refer to times when our attitude creates an eclipse which isolates us from the helpful influence of the Sage.
Anthony employs eclipse as a moral-psychological metaphor within the I Ching tradition, designating a self-generated obscuration of inner guidance caused by mistrust or resistance toward the Sage.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988supporting
The condemnation pronounced by the Ecumenical Council was the reason for the eclipse of Evagrius’ work. In spite of the eclipse his name suffered Evagrius continued to exercise a vast influence.
The editor employs ‘eclipse’ in its historical-institutional sense to describe the suppression of Evagrian writings following conciliar condemnation — a peripheral but notable instance of the term’s metaphorical extension into intellectual history.
, Praktikos, 2009aside