The Seba library treats Yod in 7 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Edinger, Edward F., Pollack, Rachel).
The relationship of the to the self is the same as that of the Hebrew letter Yod (! image) to the lapis in the cabala. The Original Man, Adam, signifies the small hook at the top of the letter Yod.
Jung explicitly equates the Hebrew letter Yod—understood as a minimal graphic point—with the lapis philosophorum and with Adam as the Original Man, making Yod a symbol of the Self in its most primordial, compressed form.
, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1951thesis
the first he is the spouse of the yod; and the second, the spouse of the vau. The first emanated from yod, directly, and the second from vau, in a converse and reflex way.
Drawing on the Kabbala Denudata, Jung presents Yod as the originating masculine principle of the Tetragrammaton from which the first He (Mother/upper Shekinah) directly emanates, structuring the divine quaternity.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
'I am black,' like the letter Yod, in which there is no white space, and I have no room to shelter
Citing the Zohar, Jung identifies Yod with the Moon at her darkest, contracted to a single point—an image of feminine depletion and exile that carries alchemical resonances of the nigredo.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955thesis
According to the Kabbalah, yod equals the Father, the Primal Point. The first he equals the Mother or the upper Shekinah.
Edinger systematically maps the Kabbalistic valences of each Tetragrammaton letter, establishing Yod as the archetypal Father-principle and Primal Point within the fourfold schema Jung uses to discuss psychological wholeness and its paradoxes.
, The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, 1995thesis
In the Cabalistic view Adam Kadmon is not merely the universal soul or, psychologically, the 'self,' but is himself the process of transformation, its division into three or four parts
Jung contextualizes Yod's role within the broader Kabbalistic structure of Adam Kadmon, emphasizing that the Self as transformation-process is articulated through the triadic or quaternary division of which Yod is the generative first term.
, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955supporting
We find these four letters, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, arranged in the Wheel of Fortune, the tenth card of the Major Arcana.
Pollack situates Yod as the first element of the Tetragrammaton encoded in the Tarot's Wheel of Fortune, interpreting the four letters not as a pronounceable name but as a formula for the process of creation underlying both the Major Arcana and the four suits.
, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness, 1980supporting
they form two triangular configurations called, the Yod, or, alternatively, the Eye of God, or Finger of Fate. In the Yod, the dual tensions of the two quincunxes, coupled with the sextile for ease, can propel the person to extreme solutions
Cunningham employs 'Yod' as an astrological term for the Finger of Fate configuration, borrowing the Hebrew letter's connotation of divine pointedness to name an aspect pattern associated with extreme creative or compulsive resolution.
, An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness, 1982supporting