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I just saw this response about a week late... but yes.. def. reading me right.
I'd need to read up on Crowley.. which I will soon do, but I do imagine (from a long time of just glimpsing his doings) that that sense of harnessing experiential 'change' and 're'cognition' is what the essence of personal power is made up of.
The other symbol for exponential un-mappable progress of course is a tree... Now I've still a lot to learn but I see the kabbalah probably assumes this way of thinking.. the 10's break down the organic into a cohesive branch structure or any other numbers too... 10's are a plateau ..uh a tree-hut..
the hypostatic synergy of revisiting / re-cognition / or the use of memory to strengthen the nostalgia of the mind. Easier said than done... it needs bravery to release one's grip on one's emotional gains.. it' like reaching the top of a hill and seeing the mountain before you... sometimes it can be out of the frying pan into the fire I suppose too...
But I think speaking entirely for myself.. that it depends if you're trying to harness new power for the self, or personal power for the new. As to where this card points in terms of light and dark.