This is why balancing is so hard in my opinion. It's a long trial and error process of finding those balanced beliefs that both empower one ray without diminishing the others. It's definitely important to look at what your beliefs are doing to your energy centers as a whole. For example, when I first started my journey, in working with the green ray, I worked with an overbroad understanding of acceptance - I was accepting not just the present, but accepting that certain things were unchangeable into the future. This was fine for my green ray, but destroyed my yellow ray. I believe acceptance is of the present, but you must believe you can change or affect the future for your yellow to be healthy.
So I totally agree in a certain sense. It's ok to focus on one center, but it's very important that in that process, you don't ignore your other centers. They are all interrelated. However, even one center has an infinite depth to the concepts it entails, and so focused study is useful. However, it is not useful if it focuses on the center to the exclusion of the others. And in particular, it is especially useful when focusing on a center to see what your beliefs are doing with the 2 nearest centers - ie if you are focusing on orange, pay close attention to red and yellow (notice in my example of focusing on my green, a belief that helped green hurt my yellow).
In a certain sense, in beginning to study the tarot, I see parallels in the nature of the study:
-In Tarot, you definitely can and will spend a lot of time examining one archetype; the study of one center.
-However, it is most fruitful I'm finding to examine the archetypes in groups of 3 at each stage, ie 1,8,15; this would correspond to studying a center and its two nearest centers together
-Finally, the magic of Tarot Archetypes, as others have described it is seeing and understanding the Archetypes all together; the end product of focusing on all the centers is bringing it all together and finding the beliefs that result in balance in all centers.
So, in closing rie, I think you're right on point!
So I totally agree in a certain sense. It's ok to focus on one center, but it's very important that in that process, you don't ignore your other centers. They are all interrelated. However, even one center has an infinite depth to the concepts it entails, and so focused study is useful. However, it is not useful if it focuses on the center to the exclusion of the others. And in particular, it is especially useful when focusing on a center to see what your beliefs are doing with the 2 nearest centers - ie if you are focusing on orange, pay close attention to red and yellow (notice in my example of focusing on my green, a belief that helped green hurt my yellow).
In a certain sense, in beginning to study the tarot, I see parallels in the nature of the study:
-In Tarot, you definitely can and will spend a lot of time examining one archetype; the study of one center.
-However, it is most fruitful I'm finding to examine the archetypes in groups of 3 at each stage, ie 1,8,15; this would correspond to studying a center and its two nearest centers together
-Finally, the magic of Tarot Archetypes, as others have described it is seeing and understanding the Archetypes all together; the end product of focusing on all the centers is bringing it all together and finding the beliefs that result in balance in all centers.
So, in closing rie, I think you're right on point!
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