I want to explore the negative polarity.

[Ohr Ein Sof]

Negative and positive are used in the LOO simply to describe the polarity, and those are the terms we are familiar with from physics.

Yin- Negative, Receptive, Absorbing, Withdrawing, Negative Electrical Charge (more electrons, it gathered electrons)
Yang- Positive, Giving, Expelling, Expanding, Positive Electrical Charge (fewer electrons, it game electrons away)

The StS path is likened unto a black hole, it absorbs, it separates, and it draws in toward the center.
The StO path is likened unto a star, it radiates, it coalesces, and it projects out toward everything.

Ironically the adept paths say to follow the middle path. Both must be balanced, so while there is a bias to one polarity there also has to be a balance struck within each individual for each polarity as well. Who knows what that balance looks like as we are all trying to figure it out, but neither side exists without the other. Maybe we should just be ourselves and let the chips fall where they may.

I think you are referring to the middle pillar and not the path? Positive adepts seek the positve polarity according to the Hermetic Principle of Polarity and the negative for the negative. You use the Universal Principles to maintain your polarity by which creates balance within the MBS and of course the Spiritual Ego (not the ego of lower man).