The Gray Paths
I'm just surveying the paths superficially, and was hoping to provide an attachment for those without access to the Gray material, a chart of his assignments. But I don't have the proper format, and a full page document would be a rather large file.
Here is a discussion of the paths by Donald Tyson. For what it's worth...I think his conclusion is the different path assignments are each right, and wrong at the same time. I'm not familiar with Tyson's writing but am guessing he supports the GD assignments.
http://www.dontyson.150m.com/answer9.html
Superficially at least the Gray assignments lay down nicely. Going up the Middle Pillar we have THE MOON between Malkuth and Yesod, THE SUN between Yesod and Tiphareth, and THE STAR between Tiph and Kether. That's a nice, neat package, all celestial in order from the Moon to the Stars. This is a synopsis of our sources of light, the reflected light of the moon first, then our central source, the sun, and then beyond, the stars. The stars are even more important to us for light on a new moon.
The left pillar is THE FOOL between Malkuth and Hod, THE DEVIL bewteen Hod and Geburah, DEATH between Geburah and Binah, and THE HERMIT between Binah and Kether.
The right pillar is THE WORLD from Malkuth to Netzach, EMPRESS from Netzach to Chesed, EMPEROR from Chesed to Chokmah, and HIEROPHANT between Chokmah and Kether.
They do seem more balanced up the pillars, or at least in more logical pairs, not that it matters. I always found it odd with the GD assignments that since there is so much balance in the Tree, that the cards did not maintain that same sense of balance.
I won't complete the chart at this time, but will see if I can find that chart somewhere online so others can see, in the event we actually discuss the paths, the logic or absence of, etc.