The Seba library treats Sun Woman in 7 passages, across 4 authors (including von Franz, Marie-Louise, Jung, Carl Gustav, Edinger, Edward F.).
sun-child, 179, 196f; sun-god, 24, 30, 270; Jung's dream of, 108; sun-hero, Jung's fantasy of, 107f; sun-woman, 164, 196
Von Franz's index locates 'sun-woman' as a discrete archetypal figure within a coherent solar family — sun-child, sun-god, sun-hero — situating her at pages treating the Apocalypse and its psychological implications in Jung's thought.
, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, 1975thesis
the sun is that which lifts up. In antiquity and such times people were puzzled at the fact that the sun raised the water by warming it … the sun was often spoken of as the principle of spiritual elevation.
Von Franz articulates the sun's archetypal function as upward spiritual movement and perfection, providing the symbolic substrate against which the Sun Woman's solar participation must be understood.
, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, 1980supporting
Isis, the sister-wife of the sun-god, creates the poisonous serpent from his spittle … She creates the serpent from the libido of the god, and by this means weakens him and makes him dependent on her.
Jung's analysis of the solar feminine's shadow dimension — exemplified by Isis — reveals that the woman intimately associated with the sun-god can both sustain and devour him, mapping the ambivalence inherent in the Sun Woman archetype.
, Symbols of Transformation, 1952supporting
the coniunctio of Sol and Luna — which they thought of as material in the alchemical flask … Neither of them located the problem in the place where it arose — the soul of man.
Edinger frames the Sol-Luna coniunctio as the alchemical equivalent of a psychic integration that must be located in the soul rather than projected outward, contextualising the Sun Woman's role in the union of solar and lunar principles.
, The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, 1995supporting
the moon and what's symbolized by it, namely the feminine principle, create time, measure and mind … contents that are emerging from the collective
Edinger's treatment of lunar symbolism as the ground of feminine mind and measure provides the contrasting pole against which the distinctively solar quality of the Sun Woman is defined.
, The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, 1995supporting
'Cannot I, too, order the sun and moon to rise? Husband,' she said … 'Go to the Flounder, for I wish to be even as God is.'
Greene's citation of the Fisherman's Wife fairy tale illustrates the shadow dimension of the solar-aspiring woman — one who reaches beyond the lunar toward absolute solar authority, prefiguring the inflation risk latent in the Sun Woman archetype.
, The Astrology of Fate, 1984aside
Saturn and the Sun are one, at the same time that they form an apparently irreconcilable duality … lead, which they called Saturn, already contained gold, which they called Sol, within it.
Greene's exposition of the Sun-Saturn polarity in alchemical terms illuminates the oppositional structure within which solar symbolism — and by extension a solar feminine — finds its meaning through contrast with the limiting, material principle.
, Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, 1976aside