YIN YANG Dark is the NEW light

Much has been said about the Yin Yang, and today I was moved by a picture to add some "Dark" to the subject. lol
Seems like it is general opinion that black represents "Bad" or "Evil". I have found that it is actually reversed. Think about it, what is everything in? Darkness. Behind every lit up space, what is always behind it if you only look far enough? What is god supposedly? EVERYTHING. Just like one might say that music is good. But what does music come out of? Silence. Rest. Nothing. It is everything! All else dances on it. Even our atoms dance in space, and if there is no light, is in darkness, but it does exceptionally well. Space to the edges of all we can perceive, and if we shine a flashlight, it is no longer there.
Even self perpetuating ideas like Lucifer is known as the light bringer, and his metaphorical role was to oppose gods will, and all that is out of a sense of pride. He turned his back on faith, and the love that exists in not knowing, trust, and nothing.
It is not that Luci is "bad" as much as he represents what all of us struggle with at times, which is trust in the process, the path that we loose sight of as we crest a hill. We can have moments of doubt and destroy all we worked for in a matter of minutes if we give in to a surface detail that commands our attention, and we don't resolve it with ease. We might take it like, well, god/universe/fate doesn't want us to do that, when in all reality, it is meant to help us diversify in how we deal with adversity. One might blame it on Luci as a scapegoat just as they might blame anything as justification as to why they give up.
New light is shed they say.
Just like anything abstract, it means what you need or want it to mean.
Darkness appears to be the absence of light. If that is what you are seeking, like proof, like knowledge. But as most find, the more we learn, the less we know, and that could be said for just about anything.
Every fiber of your being begs for you to submit to the power that, at a conscious level, you only know what you need to know, that knowledge is one of the bigger attachments we can trap ourselves with. That the brilliance is in the power of unlimited creation, not the created. It is the diversity in creating that is that which we should expand more than a goal of that which we create.
Architect create for creating, not so much the glorious works that are created. In that is a balance. When we enjoy the process fully and to the depth that we enjoy the finished work is when we grow exponentially.
To sum, black is not bad, nor is light good. It is all good, and to embrace it as such is to shine a bit of the light into black emptiness of creation is us in creation, and a bit of the black you will find driving every white blinding light...

You only hear what you want to hear!

One thing that I have found is that sometimes we got to go backwards a bit in order to go frontwards. Like in the case with knots, you might be temped to just pull it as hard as you can, and you make it worse.
Same goes for intuition. Your gut may very well be telling you with all your might to pull harder when really you need to push away. Your gut may lead you down paths of great strife, if you are not seeing things with the bigger part of yourself in agreement.
Your emotions are just as much guides in that communications come from the bigger part of yourself to communicate where you are in relation to that which you are facing. Attraction shows you what you lack, being repelled from something shows you what you have too much of.
Your subconscious (bigger part) never forgets, your conscious brain is meant to process and retrieve data. You may have noticed the calmer you are the easier you can think, and retrieve information, or in the case of near death experience you seem to have an auto pilot thing that happens, and time slows down.
This is the idea of enlightenment, to work through your emotional disturbances to the point that you have more conscious capacity to deal with that which is on hand. Your emotions give you clues as to how you are balanced in relation to the external input. While we tend to want to modify the external to meet the conditions we hold normal to, the same expectation we hold ourselves to, enlightenment is being the change we want to see, meaning we must work to know ourselves and adjust ourselves to see and understand our external factors, so that we can gain back our consciousness, and rely upon the full capacity of our being.
Point of all this is that to go with your gut, but apply it in relation to your quest to know yourself. Don't trust it in that you are trying to read the external, like who to trust, or what to approve of, as what you can see is limited to your own awareness and state of being.
Ever heard that angry lover yell at you "YOU ONLY HEAR WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR" that is all anyone ever does, they hear what they can interpret in relation to their capacity to hear or know.
Allot of self knowledge is going to be counter-intuitive. Embrace that which you would rather banish, and come alive!