The Seba library treats Luminaries in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Greene, Liz; Sasportas, Howard, Jung, Carl Gustav, Marvin W. Meyer).
The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope
This foundational text by Greene and Sasportas establishes the luminaries—Sun and Moon—as the primary objects of depth-psychological astrological inquiry, treating their symbolic pairing as the basis for a comprehensive psychology of consciousness and the unconscious.
, The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope, 1992thesis
the two luminaries are, in a sense, animals or appetites, although, as we have seen, the 'potentiae sensuales' are ascribed only to Luna.
Jung argues that both Sol and Luna, as luminaries, carry a theriomorphic, instinctual dimension that necessitates symbolic representation in animal form, grounding the coniunctio not in pure spirit but in embodied psychic appetite.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
from the light, which is the anointed, and from incorruptibility, by the grace of the spirit, the four luminaries that derive from the self-conceived God gazed out in order to stand before it.
In Sethian Gnostic cosmology, the four luminaries are angelic emanations from the divine pleroma, each presiding over an eternal realm—a schema that depth psychology reads as a projection of archetypal quaternary structure.
, The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books about Jesus of Nazareth, 2005thesis
the cyclical aspect... is probably based on the observation of the regular motion of the heavenly luminaries, and of the recurring seasonal changes.
Von Franz locates the psychological and mythological origins of cyclical time in the observed movements of the luminaries, linking celestial regularity to the deepest archetypal structures of temporal experience.
, Psyche and Matter, 2014supporting
On these luminaries the Creator bestowed the first-created light: not because He was in need of other light, but that that light might not remain idle. For a luminary is not merely light, but a vessel for containing light.
John of Damascus offers a patristic ontology of the luminary as a receptacle rather than a source of light, a distinction that resonates with depth psychology's distinction between the ego as reflector versus the Self as generative center.
, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, 2021supporting
CONCERNING LIGHT, FIRE, THE LUMINARIES, SUN, MOON AND STARS Fire is one of the four elements, light and with a greater tendency to ascend than the others.
This patristic cosmological chapter situates the luminaries within a four-element framework and a theology of created light, providing historical context for the alchemical and astrological symbolism later reappropriated by depth psychology.
, Saint John of Damascus Collection, 2016supporting
one of the illustrious quaternary of great Gnostic luminaries (composed of himself, Valentinus, Marcion and Bardesanes), Basilides is an elusive figure of Gnostic history.
Hoeller uses 'luminaries' in its extended sense of preeminent historical figures, here designating the four great Gnostic teachers whose thought informs Jung's Septem Sermones and the broader Gnostic-Jungian synthesis.
, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, 1982aside