So we agree it is a dance?
... nor is the Eye separate from the Yin-Yang of It ....
Now Lao Tzu agrees too
Being a dance, being Tao, it is non-resistance. It is also willful creation but it does not conlict.
It is created ... but it must be found. It is a dance of give and take, of gentle pressure to sense the 'others' movements.
Being of the essince of Dao it is like 'sticky hands' practice in martial arts
But more than the above, it's when I pick up a large Diamond Python (as I am a bit of a local 'snake man' and often have to ensure a snakes saftey by removal of them from nervous neighbous). One cant just let the snake wrap itself around you or bite you as it will, trying to force, grab or stuggle with it cretes agreesion and resistance. Both need to go into the contact with a special movement, it is like a dance, gentle pressure and firm giving, when appropriate, and good psychic rapport, also respect and yes ... love ... are needed between both.
I've had this experiance many times, observers ssemed confused as to how I can 'control' the snake ...
I find it interesting that this image is used on the card, (and considering my experiences), the snake even has the diamond python markings, not particularly like a diamond python ... but they look like diamonds.
Its in the midst of the dance, in psychic (or hormono-chemical) rapture that matter and spirt become one, whether its creation of 'matter', the 'accomplishment' of the Great Work, ecstatic union or even relationship, it is hard to feel or be this 'Universe' energy if the dance is not performed in the right 'spirit'.
This is the way nature 'works'. It is 'man', when removed from the natural world, that keeps trying to force it. Even to the point of declaring 'matter' is bad or fallen, that creation is flawed because it wont conform to his 'will'. Some people insist on duality and seperation but then try to force union.
I think that any system, philosophy, magick, etc, we learn, believe, or follow must refelct a similar system in nature (including sub-atomic and astropohysical parts of nature), otherwise, for me, its just another crazy human mind trip.