Rose Lalonde
For example, Keter is the latent hunger, you're hungry without even realizing it. That divides into the Fool, your actual hunger, and the Magician, your stomach telling your brain that you're hungry. The Fool goes to Chochma, your fully formed hunger, which then connects with the Empress, could be the "empty" feeling potential (what are you hungry for? Sweet? Salty?) which then meets Binah, your fully formed realization of hunger.
What are you going to make? Right now your hunger is still abstract, you're hungry for something but not sure what. Chesed is peering into the fridge and seeing what you have. It ls your raw materials. Geburah is the desire for bread and jam, you really want these things and will do anything to get them. Tiphareth is the ideal state of having all your ingredients, the sandwich is all but made in your mind, and it is absolutely perfect. Netzach is about the actual work in making the sandwich while Hod is you admiring the finished product. You have a sandwich, it may not be the ideal sandwich you dreamt of, but it is good enough. In Yesod you sniff the mouth-watering smell of your sandwich and in Malkuth you finally eat and satisfy your original hunger.
Favorite post this week. And surprisingly helpful with my understanding of Yesod, which tends to trip me up.
This reminds me a bit of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu describing the steps of Dependent Origination as they relate to a child whose doll breaks. If something's a useful description of the way the universe works, it's not only true about a great moment of calm or when inside a beautiful monastery; it's true when you're irritable and stinky with the flu, and it's true when making a sandwich. It's that quality about the Tree of Life that first interested me in the Thoth.