Last Tree of Life meeting we agreed to each take one Path and study it. I chose the Path between Hokmah and Binah, Path 4, aligned with the Empress card in the Tarot. It is the Path between two almost opposite aspects of Goddess - Sophia as she has been split in two, as one commentator put it. Originally I saw them in opposition to each other - Hokmah so restrained and ethereal, while Binah feels raw and bloody and all over the place, but I’ve come to see them as complementing and almost bracing each other.
That Path is the first one that goes horizontally across the Tree - like a bracing piece, for what then comes below. Also, I had it in a dream as a fold-line - if you fold the Tree over at that point, Kether comes to rest in Da’ath - the allness swallowed up into the nothingness; perfect! With Binah and Hokmah on either side, like guardians - indeed, pillars - the tops of the Left and Right Pillars.
I am seeing them now as extremities that are linked - holding some of the corners down. Together with Kether they make up the top portion of the Tree - and I also think they are strongly aligned with the beginning of the Feri myth of the origin of the Universe, with the Star Goddess (Kether) creating a mirror (Hokmah) in which to see herself, and then reaching in and drawing forth that being (Binah) who then existed separately and began to dance (down, through Da’ath) into the Universe…
I’ve found that all the sephirot when isolated are extreme and out of balance, nearly to self destruct - they can only exist when in relationship with each other. Perhaps the only exception is Daath.