The Seba library treats Solar Plexus in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Place, Robert M., Jung, C. G.).
the black ball, in the region of the manipūra-chakra, which coincides with the solar plexus. (The alchemical parallel to this is the ‘black sun.’) This means that the dark principle, or shadow, has been integrated and is now felt as a kind of centre in the body.
Jung explicitly equates the solar plexus with the manipura-chakra and interprets its activation as the somatic integration of the shadow, linking it to the alchemical ‘black sun.’
, Alchemical Studies, 1967thesis
Solar plexus: This center is located on the spine at the level of the upper abdomen… this is where we create our self-identity. Plato believed that this was the location of the soul of appetite. In modern psychological terms, it is the center of one’s ego.
Place maps the solar plexus onto the Platonic appetitive soul and the modern ego, making it the locus of will, self-esteem, and power development.
, The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, 2005thesis
solar: gods, 267n; pillar, 310n; plexus, 37, fig. Ag, 266; point, 152
The Collected Works index clusters the solar plexus with solar gods and the solar point, situating it within Jung’s broader symbolic anatomy.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
Around the outside is spread nerve tissue indicating that the process takes place in the solar plexus
A mandala image is described with nerve tissue marking the solar plexus as the site of cosmic-psychological process, placing it at the center of the alchemical vessel metaphor.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
Fire is the warming, energizing principle of the circulatory system. The fire current manifests as the light of the eyes and heat of the brain (Aries), the fire of digestion in the solar plexus area (Leo), and the motor energy in the thighs (Sagittarius).
Arroyo’s polarity-therapy framework locates the solar plexus as the digestive fire center corresponding to Leo, integrating astrological and somatic energy maps.
, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements: An Energy Approach to Astrology and Its Use in the Counseling Arts, 1975supporting
Solar plexus, 272
A bare index reference in the Zarathustra seminar notes indicates Jung addressed the solar plexus in the context of discussions of body, soul, and sickness.
, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, 1988aside
Crystals are worn today by some Native Americans as pendants, hanging between the solar plexus and Heart Chakra. Since the solar plexus is where you receive external stimuli into your body, a crystal in that vicinity can purify the energy you receive.
Greer frames the solar plexus as the body’s primary receptor of external energetic stimuli, positioning it between the lower instinctual and upper feeling centers.
, Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for the Inward Journey, 1984supporting